Invited speakers list

(provisional titles)

Jessica Abbott (Dept. of Biology, Lund, Sweden)
Understanding sex chromosomes using experimental evolution

Doris Bachtrog (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Dynamic gene content evolution on Y chromosomes

Jens Bast (Institute for Zoology, University of Cologne, Köln, Germany)
Evolutionary persistence in the absence of sex

Astrid Böhne (Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig - Leibniz Institute for Animal Biodiversity, Bonn, Germany)
A tour de sex (chromosomes) in cichlid fish

Tim Connallon (Monash University, Victoria, Australia)
Revisiting the relation between genetic dominance and adaptation on sex chromosomes

Etienne Danchin (Institut Sophia Agrobiotech, Sophia Antipolis, France)
Comparative genomics of sexually and asexually-reproducing root-knot nematodes highlight idiosyncrasies linked to reproductive modes

Marie Delattre (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Lyon, France)
Origin and consequences of autopseudogamy in Mesorhabditis nematodes

Nicolas Galtier (Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution Montpellier, France)
Genome evolution after sex is lost

Tatiana Giraud (Laboratoire ESE, Université Paris-Sud XI, Orsay, France)
Stepwise evolution of recombination suppression on fungal mating-type chromosomes

Sylvain Glémin (UMR ECOBIO, Rennes, France)
Diversity, determinants, and consequences of recombination landscapes in flowering plants

Christoph Haag (Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Montpellier, France)
Contagious asexuality reveals selection acting during evolutionary transitions to parthenogenesis

Simone Immler (University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom)
The evolutionary implications of haploid selection in predominanty diploid organisms

Mark Kirkpatrick (University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA)
Sexually Antagonistic Selection in Humans

Thomas Lenormand (Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Montpellier, France)
Regulators and the evolution of sex chromosomes

Michael Lynch (Biodesign Insitute, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA)
The evolutionary genomics of sex and recombination in Daphnia

Gabriel Marais (CIBIO-InBIO, Universidade do Porto, Vairão, Portugal)
DNA sequence of the giant sex chromosomes of the dioecious plant Silene latifolia

Raphael Mercier (Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany)
What limits meiotic crossovers?

Pavitra Muralidhar (University of California Davis, USA)
Stabilizing selection on polygenic traits inhibits sex chromosome transitions

Aline Muyle (Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Montpellier, France)
Epigenetics and sex chromosome evolution in Silene

Sally Otto (Dpt Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)
Selective interference and the evolution of sex

Bret Payseur (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
Evolution of Recombination Rate on Broad and Fine Genomic Scales

Max Reuter (University College London, London, United Kingdom)
Sexually antagonistic genetic variation in fruit flies

Tanja Schwander (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
Consequences of parthenogenesis for genome evolution in stick insects (and other animals)

Henrique Teotónio (Institut de Biologie de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France)
Adaptation and selection on a recombination rate modifier

Karine Van Doninck (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium)
DNA repair during non-reductional meiosis in the asexual rotifer Adineta vaga

Stephen Wright (University of Toronto, Canada)
Evolutionary causes and consequences of the spread of the recent neo sex chromosome

Alison Wright (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom)
Evolution and genomics of sexual dimorphism