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SFB 680 Symposium
October 8 - 10, 2014
Institute for Genetics, Zülpicher Str. 47, Lecture Hall 4th Floor
SFB 680 Meeting
August 27th, 2014
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne
Spring Meeting 2012
February 22-24, 2012
Satellite Meeting
February 24-25, 2012
SFB 680 / FOR 1078 Joint Conference
September 29 - October 1st, 2011
Pelham (Chiemgau, Bavaria)
Pelham (Chiemgau, Bavaria)
SFB 680 Conference
July 1 - July 3, 2010
Marche-en-Famenne (Belgium)
Marche-en-Famenne (Belgium)
Seminar Days
23rd Seminar Day on Microbial Evolution
June23 -June24, 2016
Programm PDF
| June 23 | Berenike Maier, Welcome address |
| Hinrich Schulenburg Rapid de novo evolution of bacterial resistance to antibiotic combinations |
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| Mark Zwart Chance and necessity in the evolution of antibiotic resistance |
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| Joachim Krug Causes of epistasis in Fisher's geometric model |
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| Daniel Rozen Working towards understanding antibiotics outside of the clinic |
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| Torsten Held Evolutionary limits to microbial complexity |
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| Karin Mitosch Antibiotics-induced cross-protection at the single-cell leve |
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| VENUE: Institute for Theoretical Physics (New Building), Zülpicher Str. 77a, | |
| June 24 | Tobias Bollenbach Quantitative determinants of antibiotic resistance evolution |
| Fernanda Pinheiro Fitness effects of lateral gene transfer |
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| Nadzeya Kouzel Horizontal gene transfer in bacterial biofilms |
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| Tin Yau Pang Analysis of Escherichia coli ancestral metabolic networks reveals past adaption |
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| Prasanna Bhogale How does the lactose-uptake system switch |
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| Christian Kost Adaptive gene loss drives the evolution of metabolic dependencies within microbial communities |
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| VENUE: Biocenter, Zülpicher Str. 47b, Lecture Hall ground floor |
22st Seminar Day - Molecular and functional innovations in evolution
June 11 - June 12, 2015
| November 9 | Maude Baldwin The evolution of sweet taste perception in a nectar-feeding bird |
| George Coupland Divergence of annual and perennial life history in the Brassicaceae |
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| Levi Yant Selective sweep and interspecific gene flow upon serpentine adaptation by Arabidopsis arenosa |
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| Hartmut Arndt Chaos and nonlinear dynamics in real-world food web |
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| Jonathan Howard Polymorphism in a resistance system in the wild: scaling problems |
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| VENUE: Institute for Theoretical Physics (New Building), Zülpicher Str. 77a, | |
| November 10 | Juliette de Meaux Signatures of polygenic adaptation in the Arabidopsis genus |
| Stephane Hacquard Survival trade-offs in plant roots during colonization by closely related pathogenic and mutualistic fungi |
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| Martin Lercher Metabolic network adaptation to environmental changes |
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| Jane Parker Host-pathogen evolution and local adaptation of plant disease resistance genes |
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| Chris Bowler Tara oceans: eco-systems biology at planetary scale |
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| VENUE: Institute for Theoretical Physics (New Building), Zülpicher Str. 77a, | |
| Programm PDF |
21st Seminar Day -Mini-symposium on “Environmental and Biotic Interactions
June 11 - June 12, 2015
| June 11 | Ildiko Somorjai New and old tails of amphioxus regeneration |
| Johannes Berg Multiple-line inference of adaptive evolution of gene-expression in S. pombe |
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| Peter Heger The genetic basis of the Cambrian explosion: a bioinformatics approach |
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| Michael Kuhn Commparing tissue formation and regeneration across species using tissue specific gene expression patterns |
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| Jan Grossbach Detection of epistatic interactions with random forest |
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| Abdou Khila Understanding adaptive evolution through combining developmental genetics with organismal life history |
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| VENUE: Institute for Theoretical Physics (New Building), Zülpicher Str. 77a, | |
| June 12 | Dario Valenzano Genetics and genomics of lifespan in the short-lived African turquoise killifish |
| Angela Hay Genetic basis of petal number variation |
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| Wolfgang Werr The evolution of seed plant stem cell niches, a view from the homeodomain perspective |
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| Kristen Panfilio Initial insights from comparative genomics of draft insect genomes |
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| Ville Mustonen Using time-resolved genetic data to monitor evolving populations |
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| VENUE: Institute for Theoretical Physics (New Building), Zülpicher Str. 77a, | |
| Programm PDF |
20th Seminar Day - Mini Symposium on Viral Evolution
Dec 3 - Dec 4, 2014
| December 3 | Georgii Bazykin The role of epistasis in evolution of influenza A |
| Mara Villa Detection of reassortment in the evolution of influenza virus |
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| VENUE: Institute for Genetics, Zülpicher Str. 47a, Seminar Room 0.46, Ground Floor | |
| December 4 | William Harvey, Richard Reeve Identifying genetic determinants of antigenic differences among RNA viruses |
| Simone Pompei Analysis of epistasis in the haemagglutinin protein of human influenza |
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| Marta Luksza Epidemiological and evolutionary analysis of the 2014 Ebola virus outbreak |
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| VENUE: Institute for Theoretical Physics (New Building), Zülpicher Str. 77a, Seminar Room 0.03 | |
| Abstracts PDF Programm PDF |
19th Seminar Day: Internal project leader meeting
January 10 - January 11, 2013
18th Seminar Day
June 5 - June 6, 2012
| June 5 | Siegfried Roth / Jeremy Lynch The evolution of gene regulatory networks for dorsoventral patterning in insects |
| Kristen Panfilio The evolution of the development of an insect synapomorphy, the extraembryonic membranes | |
| Wolfgang Werr The evolution of the root and shoot stem cell niches in land plants: contribution of the WOX gene family | |
| Martin Hülskamp Micro-evolution of a regulatory network in Brassicacea | |
| George Coupland Evolution of annual and perennial life histories in the Brassicace | |
| Juliette de Meaux The adaptive value of pleiotropic variation: miR824 and the MADS-Box Gene Network | |
| Johannes Berg / Michael Lässig Comparative analysis of gene expression | |
| Achim Tresch Genome-wide measurements of RNA synthesis and degradation rates reveal mutual feedback that stabilizes RNA concentrations | |
| Jane E. Parker Molecular analysis and evolutionary history of an epistatic interaction leading to incompatibility | |
| Eric von Elert Evolutionary adaptation of Daphnia to protease inhibitors in cyanobacteria. | |
| June 6 | Jingtao Li Recent co-adaption in the Toxoplasma-mouse parasite-host relationship |
| Michael Lässig Time-dependent selection and adaptation | |
| Joachim Krug / Arjan de Visser Epistasis, recombination and predictability in adaptive evolution | |
| Berenike Maier Cost and benefit of bacterial transformation | |
| Michael Nothnagel Human genetic diversity in Europe | |
| Andreas Beyer Computational analysis of the evolution of molecular machines | |
| Thomas Wiehe Theory of shortest unique substrings in population genetics and comparative genomics | |
| Martin Lercher Bacterial genome dynamics: gene acquisitions and losses in response to life style changes |
17th Seminar Day
Adaptation in natural populations: tools and mechanisms
May 31 - June 01, 2011
| May 31 | Luc De Meester, K. U. Leuven Life in a mosaic of stressors: an evolving metacommunity approach |
| Ellen Decaestecker, K. U. Leuven The Red Queen in action in Daphnia-parasite interactions | |
| Anke Schwarzenberger, Cologne Seasonal and local adaptation of Daphnia magna to cyanobacterial protease inhibitors? – Comparison of three natural populations | |
| Christian Küster, Cologne High Resolution Melting Analysis (HRMA) – A powerful and cost effective tool for large scale genotyping projects | |
| Christoph Effertz, Cologne Relative expression of actine genes in D. magna – Possible targets for fish kairomones? | |
| Patrick Fink, Cologne Variation in gene expression in Daphnia pulex - a key to understand competition for essential fatty acids | |
| June 01 | Andrew Beckerman, University of Sheffield Phenotypic plasticity, local adaptation and high dimension phenotypes |
| Luisa Orsini, K. U. Leuven Approaches and molecular tools to study adaptation in natural populations | |
| Veerle Lemaire, K. U. Leuven Genotype-genotype dependent interactions between the cyanobacterium Microcystis and its grazer, the waterflea of the genus Daphnia | |
| Lutz Becks, Cologne Adaptation and the evolution of sex in facultative sexual rotifers |
16th Seminar Day
Epigenetics and Evolution
January 26 - January 27, 2011
| January 26 | Juliette de Meaux, University of Münster Epigenetics and Evolution I: The experimental perspective |
| Thomas Wiehe, Cologne Epigenetics and Evolution II: The theoretical perspective | |
| Filippos Klironomos, Cologne Adaptation using multiple mutation systems: Survival of the slowest | |
| Matteo Pellegrini, UCLA DNA methylation Profiling using Illumina Sequencers | |
| Oliver Bossdorf, University of Bern Asking epigenetic questions in plant evolutionary ecology | |
| January 27 | Franziska Turk, MPI for Plant Breeding Research Aspects of Polycomb Group mediated gene repression in plants |
| Christoph Grunau, University of Perpignan A possible role for epigenetics in the induction of phenotypic variability | |
| Jan-Willem Veening, University of Groningen Stochastic and systematic variability as a source of heterogeneity in Bacillus subtilis spore formation | |
| Ales Pecinka, MPI for Plant Breeding Research Epigenetic regulation of repetitive elements and genetic stability are attenuated by prolonged heat stress in Arabidopsis thaliana |
15th Seminar Day
December 02 - December 03, 2010
| December 02 | Thomas Lengauer MPI Saarbrücken GISAID |
| Alejandro Pironti MPI Saarbrücken A Tool for Predicting the Success of First-Line Antiretroviral Therapies | |
| Bastian Beggel Analysis of Viral Sequence Data on Hepatitis B | |
| Stephan Schiffels Cologne Adaptation in Linked Genomes | |
| Kasia Bozek Positive Selection of HIV Host Factors and the Evolution of Lentivirus Genes | |
| Finja Schweitzer The Influence of Transmitted Resistance Associated Mutations in the Presence of Specific HLA Alleles on HIV Disease Progression | |
| Glenn Lawyer Using Pittman-Yor Processes to Model Quasispecies Diversity | |
| December 03 | Michael Lässig Cologne Clonal Interference in the Evolution of Influenza |
| Alexander Thielen Prediction of HIV1 Coreceptor Usage from Viral Genotype | |
| Ville Mustonen Germline Fitness-Based Scoring of Cancer Mutations | |
| Sven-Eric Schelhorn Methodologies of Variant and Haplotype Calling in Next Generation Sequencing Data | |
| Jasmina Bogojeska MPI Saarbrücken Dealing with Sparse Data in HIV Therapy Screening |
14th Seminar Day
November 16 - November 17, 2010
| November 16 | Peter Heger, Cologne Genome sequence of the basal nematode Romanomermis culicivorax: Insights into nematode genome evolution |
| Kevin J. Verstrepen, University of Leuven Molecular mechanisms underlying rapid evolution in yeast | |
| Armita Nourmohammad, Cologne Evolutionary modes of eukaryotic regulatory genomes | |
| Lilia Perfeito, Cologne Fitness Landscape of a metabolic pathway | |
| Donate Weghorn, Cologne Evolution of nucleosome positioning | |
| November 17 | Berenike Maier, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster Controlling bacterial motors |
| Joachim Krug, Cologne The role of population size in the adaptation of microbial populations | |
| Martijn Schenk, Cologne The distribution of fitness effects of beneficial mutations | |
| Markus Kollmann, Humbold University, Berlin Evolved optimality - to what extent are microbes optimized for fast growth |
13th Seminar Day
March 04 - March 05, 2010
| March 04 | Jane Parker, Matthieu Reymond, MPIZ Cologne Local adaptation at SRF3 in Central Asia has favored the spread of incompatible alleles with a European accession |
| Maria Albani/Jörg Wunder Coupland Lab MPIZ Cologne Evolution of plant life history; dissecting natural variation within and between species | |
| Wolfgang Werr, Cologne How to interprete WOX homeodomain signatures in terms of evolutionary times and functional similarity | |
| Thomas Wiehe, Cologne Re-visiting microsatellites as an evolutionary marker | |
| Anke Schwarzenberger, v. Elert Lab Cologne Challenges of a field study | |
| Siegfried Roth, Jeremy Lynch, Cologne Evolution of mechanisms for generating and interpreting embryonic patterning information | |
| March 05 | Martin Hülskamp, Cologne Trichome patterning in Arabis alpina: Perspectives |
| Juliette de Meaux, MPIZ Cologne Functional evolution in Arabidopsis thaliana: multiple opportunities for fruitful interactions | |
| Michael Lässig, Cologne The fitness-structure landscape of mi-RNA processing | |
| Johannes Berg, Cologne Dynamical modeling of biological systems | |
| Martin Lercher, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf How to detect horizontal gene transfers | |
| Joachim Krug, Cologne Pleiotropy and evolutionary tradeoffs |
12th Seminar Day
May 14 - May 15, 2009
| May 14 | Joachim Krug, Arjan de Visser, Cologne Wageningen University Epistasis, recombination and predictability in adaptive evolution |
| Jeremy Lynch, Cologne The evolution of germline-to-soma signaling in insects | |
| Eric von Elert, Cologne Adaptive evolution in a herbivore against dietary protease inhibitors | |
| Jonathan Howard, Cologne Reciprocal polymorphism and co- adaptation in the Toxoplasma-mouse nexus | |
| May 15 | Philip Gerrish, Universidade de Lisboa Genetic linkage and mutation rate instability |
| Michael Lässig, Cologne Time-dependent selection and adaptation | |
| Martin Lercher, Karin Schnetz, Gabriel Gelius-Dietrich, Cologne Bacterial genome dynamics: gene acquisitions and losses in response to life style changes |
11th Seminar Day
April 23 - April 24, 2009
| April 23 | Michael Lässig Intro |
| Wolfgang Werr Evolution of the WOX gene family | |
| Martin Hülskamp The trichome patterning network: functional redundancies and diversification as an analysis tool for the evolution of the network | |
| April 24 | Matthieu Reymond Molecular analysis and evolutionary history of an epistatic interaction leading to incompatibility |
| George Coupland Evolution of annual and perennial life histories in the Brassicacae | |
| Juliette de Meaux Adaptive evolution in gene networks controlling seed dormancy in A. thaliana |
10th Seminar Day
December 11 - December 12, 2008
| December 11 | Siegfried Roth, Cologne Introduction to dorsoventral axis formation in insects |
| Jeremy Lynch, Cologne The evolution of germline-to-soma signaling in insects | |
| Elio Sucena, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia Oeiras Portugal Drosophila dorsal appendages as a case-study of evolutionary novelty | |
| December 12 | Kristen Panfilio, Cologne Case study on the evolution of a divergent Hox gene |
| Barbara Negre de Bofarull, Cambridge, UK Evolution of the Achaete-Scute Complex in Insects: recurrent duplication of proneral genes | |
| Robert Zinzen, EMBL, Heidelberg Networks in tissue development of Drosophila | |
| Robert Zinzen, EMBL, Heidelberg Cis-evolution and cis-regulatory networks in tissue development of Drosophila |
9th Seminar Day
June 09 - June 10, 2008
| June 09 | Michael Lässig, Cologne Intro |
| Sarah Teichmann, University of Cambridge Evolution of protein interactions in networks and complexes | |
| Karol Szafranski, Fritz Lipmann Institut, Jena Widespread and subtle: alternative splicing at short-distance tandem sites | |
| June 10 | Thomas Wiehe Intro |
| Yuseob Kim, Arizona State University, Tempe Detecting natural selection on nucleosome positioning in gene regulatory regions | |
| Daniel Zivkovic, Cologne Generalization of population genetical tests under arbitrary demographic scenarios | |
| Casey Bergmann, University of Manchester Computational analyses of transposable element evolution in Drosophila genomes | |
| Ziheng Yang FRS, University College, London Estimation of hominoid ancestral population sizes |
8th Seminar Day
April 17 - April 18, 2008
| April 17 | Joachim Krug, Cologne Introduction to clonal interference |
| Su-Chan Park, Cologne The coalescent in the presence of clonal interference | |
| Lilia Perfeito, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência Rate and effects of mutations in Escherichia coli | |
| April 18 | Isabel Gordo, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência On sex, stress and mutation interactions |
| Michael Lässig, Cologne Antigenic evolution of influenza | |
| Natalja Strelkowa, Imperial College Is influenza evolution predictable? |
7th Seminar Day
January 25, 2008
| January 25 | Wolfgang Werr and Group ? |
| Fabrice Roux, University of Lille Genome-Wide Association mapping in Arabidopsis thaliana to identify genes causing quantitative resistance to the pathogen Pseudomonas viridiflava | |
| Juliette de Meaux and Group (Fei He) Large-scale screening of allele-specific expression variation between Arabidopsis thaliana and Arabidopsis lyrata | |
| Juliette de Meaux and Group (Madlen Vetter) Functional consequences of evolutionary changes at the receptor for bacterial flagellin in A. thaliana | |
| Juliette de Meaux and Group (Ilkka Kronholm) Local adaption in A. thaliana – Seed dormancy as a case study | |
| Juliette de Meaux Evolution of a thermo-resistant secondary structure in a plant micro-RNA | |
| Vincent Castric, University of Lille Repeated introgression between closely related Arabidopsis species at a gene under multiallelic balancing selection |
6th Seminar Day
May 23, 2007
| May 23 | J. Arjan G.M. de Visser, Laboratory of Genetics, Wageningen University Mutation supplies and adaption in microbial populations |
| Susanna Remold, University of Louisville, USA Evolutionary genomics of microbial host use | |
| Mark Stoneking, Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Detecting local selection in human populations |
5th Seminar Day
March 02, 2007
| March 02 | Thomas d'Souza, Tübingen Getting the best of two worlds: Evolutionary consequences of rare sex in parthenogenetic flatworms |
| Reinmar Hager, Manchester Genomic imprinting and maternal effects in evolutionary conflict resolution and coadaption | |
| Dustin Penn, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Individual odor signatures in MHC genes |
4th Seminar Day
December 08, 2006
| December 08 | Sander Tans, Amsterdam Empirical fitness landscapes reveal accessible evolutionary paths |
| Gregor Bucher, Göttingen Tribolium head development and implications for evolutionary pathways |
3rd Seminar Day
July 06, 2006
| July 06 | Shamil Sunyaev Evolution of conserved non-coding regions |
| Maud Tenaillion A multilocus investigation of the domestication process in maize | |
| Nynke Dekker Single-molecule techniques for investigating the biophysics of nucleic acid-protein interactions |
2nd Seminar Day
April 27, 2006
| April 27 | Ulrich Gerland, Universitiy of Munich Evolutionary robustness of a simple genetic switch |
| Joachim Hermisson, University of Munich The signature of positive selection on DNA polymorphism |
1st Seminar Day
March 17, 2006
| March 17 | Gernot Glöckner, Jena Evolution of social amoebae |
| Urs-Schmidt-Ott, University of Chicago Contribution of lower cyclorrhaphan flies to an evolutionary understanding of developmental mechanisms in Drosophila |