Programme

Monday 12 October

Chair: Pascal Touzet

14:30 Fabienne Van Rossum
Welcome

14:40 Alexander Papadopulos
Plastic responses as preadaptation in Silene uniflora

15:00 Sarah Coates
Adapting to extreme environments: rapid evolution of heavy metal tolerance in Silene

15:20 Farzaneh Jafari
Geometric morphometrics of the calyx in Silene arabica and its relatives

15:40 Alexis Ryo
Comparative study of sexual dimorphism in the Silene genus: impact of pollination mode and age of dioecy

16:00 Coffee break

16:30 Fabienne Van Rossum
Phenotypic variation in Silene nutans in Western Europe: a mirror of phylogeographic history?

16:50-18:00  Discussion room
Mitochondrial genomes in Silene (Helena Storchova)

Tuesday 13 October

Chair: Lynda Delph

14:30 Václav Bačovský
Meiosis of sex chromosomes in Silene latifolia

14:50 Vojtěch Hudzieczek
GSFY negatively regulates a SUPERMAN-like gene to suppress gynoecium development in male Silene latifolia

15:10 Tomas Janicek
Epigenetic reprogramming guides sexual dimorphism during floral development in Silene latifolia

15:30 Dérica G. Tavares
Transcriptomic analysis of Silene latifolia slap3 mutants during Microbotryum lychnidis-dioicae infection

15:50 Coffee break

16:20 Discussion room
What are the characters that best distinguish Silene species from each other: morphological or molecular data? (Bengt Oxelman, )

17:30-18:00 Discussion room
Award of the best young researcher’s talk, Database of life history traits of Silene – follow up, next workshop and collaborative papers.