!! Time Zone: CEST (CEST Paris-Brussels = UTC+2)
Monday 17 May
14:30 Welcome and meeting overview
14:40 Talk Session : The Silene system, an overview (Chair: Fabienne Van Rossum)
Gabriel Marais (Lyon1 University, France) & Alex Widmer (ETH Zürich, Switzerland): Genomic approaches in Silene: sex chromosomes… and beyond (talk 20 min)
Bengt Oxelman (Göteborg University, Sweden): Phylogenetic relationships and taxonomic classification in Sileneae (talk 20 min)
Sophie Karrenberg (Uppsala University, Sweden), Lynda Delph (Indiana University, U.S.A.) & Alex Widmer (ETH Zürich, Switzerland): Speciation mechanisms in Silene (talk 20 min)
15:40 Coffee break
16:10 Talk Session : Getting inspiration from other plant model systems (Chair: Pascal Touzet)
John Kelly, Kansas University, U.S.A. (invited speaker): Measuring selection at the DNA level in natural populations (25 min. + 10 min. questions)
Xavier Vekemans, Lille University, France (invited speaker): Evolutionary genomics of plant reproductive systems: the interplay of self-incompatibility and polyploidy dynamics in Brassicaceae (25 min. + 10 min. questions)
17:20 Coffee break
17:40 Virtual Poster Session
18:50 Discussion gallery
Tuesday 18 May
14:30 Talk Session : The Silene system, an overview (Chair: Michael Hood)
Tatiana Giraud (Paris-Saclay University, France): Genomics of Microbotryum fungi in the context of specialization to their Silene hosts (talk 20 min)
Fabienne Van Rossum (Meise Botanic Garden, Belgium) & Pascal Touzet (Lille University, France): Forty-six years of research on Silene nutans : from evolutionary ecology to genomics (talk 20 min)
15:10 Talk Session : Recent advances I (Chair: Tatiana Giraud)
Marine Duhamel (Paris-Saclay University - Ruhr-University Bochum, France - Germany): Dynamics of transposable element accumulation on mating-type chromosomes of Microbotryum Silene-castrating fungi (10 min + 2 min questions)
Michael Hood (Amherst College, U.S.A): Silene distributions and interactions with the anther-smut fungi (10 min + 2 min questions)
15:35 Coffee break
16:05 Talk Session : Recent advances I (Chair: Alex Widmer)
Andrea Berardi (Harvard University, U.S.A): Red flower color in North American Silene: pollinators or ploidy? (10 min + 2 min questions)
Jenna Miladin (Christopher Newport University, U.S.A): Direct and indirect influences of climate and pollination on evolutionary transitions in morphology in Silene (10 min + 2 min questions)
Alex Papadopulos (Bangor University, UK): Parallel adaptation to heavy metal contamination in Silene uniflora (10 min + 2 min questions)
16:45 Discussion in groups
Sex chromosomes
Silene mating systems: database and plant-pollinator interactions
17:45 Coffee break
18:15 Discussion gallery
Wednesday 19 May
14:30 Talk Session : Recent advances II (Chair: Bohuslav Janoušek)
Amandine Cornille (CNRS - Université Paris Saclay, France): Successive colonization events with restricted gene flow in a widespread European carnation species (10 min + 2 min questions)
Farzaneh Jafari (University of Tehran, Iran): Phylogeny and infrageneric delimitation in Silene inferred from nrDNA ITS and cpDNA rps16 (10 min + 2 min questions)
Aline Muyle (LBBE - Lyon, France): Dioecy is associated with high genetic diversity and adaptation rates in the plant genus Silene (10 min + 2 min questions)
Roman Hobza (Plant Developmental Genetics - Brno, Czech Republic): Epigenetic consequences of Y chromosome degeneration in Silene latifolia (10 min + 2 min questions)
Vojtěch Hudzieczek (Institute of Biophysics - ASCR, Czech Republic): Molecular tools for functional studies in Silene latifolia (10 min + 2 min questions)
Martin C. Fischer (ETH Zurich, Switzerland): Iconic cushion plants with a complex evolutionary history – the Silene acaulis species complex (10 min + 2 min questions)
Helena Storchova (Institute of Experimental Botany - Prague, Czech Republic): The transcriptomics of Cytoplasmic Male Sterility in Silene vulgaris (10 min + 2 min questions)
15:45 Coffee break
16:15 Discussion in groups
Sequencing the Silene genome
Sharing resources on Silene: DNA, plant and seed material database, seed bank storage and sampling campaigns
17:15 Coffee break
17:30 Discussion: Meet the speakers
18:30 Discussion gallery
Thursday 20 May
14:30 Talk Session : Discussion in groups - synthesis (Chair: Lynda Delph)
Presentation of discussion results to plenum, ca. 15 minutes per group, including discussion, for:
Sex chromosomes
Silene mating systems: database and plant-pollinator interactions
Sequencing the Silene genome
Sharing resources on Silene: DNA, plant and seed material database, seed bank storage and sampling campaigns
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Talk Session : Discussion in groups - synthesis (Chair: Lynda Delph)
Presentation of discussion results to plenum, ca. 15 minutes per group, including discussion for:
Hosts-pathogens
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16:30 Discussion in groups: meeting in groups to finalize plans, after input from plenum
17:30 Coffee break
18:00 Discussion gallery