Programme

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Thursday 12 October

14:30 Pascal Touzet : Welcome

14:40 Dmitry A. Filatov : Evolution of a plant sex chromosome driven by expanding pericentromeric recombination suppression

15:00 Quentin Rougemont : The Silene latifolia genome and its giant Y chromosome

15:20 Zdeněk Kubát : Ubiquitous sex-specific proliferation of LTR retrotransposons revealed by sex chromosomes of Silene latifolia

15:40 Eddy Mendoza-Galindo : RNA-directed DNA methylation contributes to sexual dimorphism in Silene latifolia

16:00 Coffee break

16:15 Invited speaker, David Lowry : Building monkeyflowers into a model system for plant evolutionary biology.

17:15 Paris Veltsos : An updated genetic map for Silene latifolia shows sex-specific selection

  17:35-18:35 Discussion rooms

Friday 13 October

14:30 Zoé Postel : Fast evolution of reproductive isolation between lineages of Silene nutans

14:50 Helena Storchova : Mitochondrial genomes of Silene vulgaris and its close relatives – how the “fluidic”, extremely rearranged mitogenomes might have evolved ?

15:10 José Luis Rodríguez-Lorenzo : Geometric morphometrics applied to seed morphology in Silene

15:30 Coffee break

15:45 Invited speaker, Charlie Fenster : Pollinator mediated selection on Silene floral form

16:30 Andrea Berardi : The role of floral color in the evolution of North American Silene

16:50 Aline Muyle : Evolution of sex-biased gene expression during transitions to separate sexes in the Silene genus

17:10-18:10 Discussion rooms