SFB 680 Conference

Conference Schedule

Thursday, July 1

14:20 - 14:30Michael Lässig
Opening remarks
Session 1Chair: Siegfried Roth
14:30 - 15:00 Laurence Hurst
Why there is more to gene evolution than protein function: splicing, nucleosomes and dual-coding sequence
15:00 - 15:30Eugene Koonin
Molecular innovations at the origin of eukaryotes
15:30 - 16:00Diethard Tautz
Phylostratigraphic approaches to trace evolutionary innovations
16:00 - 16:30Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:00Martin Kreitman
Viability and Development
17:00 - 17:30Dmitri Petrov
Evidence that mutation is universally biased towards AT in bacteria
17:30 - 18:00Shamil Sunyaev
Learning about interactions and selection from sequence data
Session 2: Posters
18:30 - 19:00Poster Talks
19:00 - 20:00Wine and Posters
20:15Dinner

Friday, July 2

Session 3Chair: Johannes Berg
09:00 - 09:30Curtis Callan
Deep sequencing, mutual information and the thermodynamics of gene regulation
09:30 - 10:00Sebastian Maerkl
Systematic characterization of transcription factor function in vivo and in vitro
10:00 - 10:30Ville Mustonen
Analysis of variation in molecular phenotypes
10:30 - 11:00Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30Leonid Mirny
Evolutionary innovation and selection in cancer developement
11:30 - 12:00Michael Lässig
Clonal interference in the evolution of influenza
12:00 - 12:30Thomas Lengauer
Statistical models for predicting HIV phenotypes and effectiveness of antiretroviral therapies
12:30 - 13:30Lunch
15:30 - 16:00Coffee
Session 4Chair: Wolfgang Werr
16:00 - 16:30Santiago Elena
Emerging viruses: changes in viral genome result in a better manipulation of host regulatory networks
16:30 - 17:00Ruben Alcazar
Natural variation at pathogen resistance gene drives incompatibility within Arabidopsis thaliana accessions
17:00 - 17:30Andrew Clark
Dysregulation of gene expression and allelic imbalance in mammalian interspecific hybrids
18:00 - 18:30Ralf Bundschuh
Fitness and structure landscapes for pre-miRNA processing
18:30 - 19:00Juliette de Meaux
Maintenance of allelic polymorphism in miRNA824 processing
19:00 - 19:30John Colbourne
Environmental gene regulation of an expansive aquatic arthropod genome
20:15Dinner

Saturday, July 3

Session 5Chair: Martin Lercher
09:00 - 09:30Stanislas Leibler
Cooperation in bacteria: a synthetic perspective
09:30 - 10:00Christopher Marx
Diminishing returns epistasis between genes during adaptation
10:00 - 10:30Joachim Krug
Accessibility of mutational pathways in random and empirical fitness landscapes
10:30 - 11:00Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30Boris Shraiman
Recombination, interaction and the rate of adaptation
11:30 - 12:00Erez Dekel
On the evolutionary theory of cost and benefit
12:00 - 12:30Csaba Pal
Causes and evolution of gene dispensability
13:00 - 14:00Lunch

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