Program

Day 1: Monday, June 24th

Session 1: Major Transitions in Fish Evo-Devo 

Session Chair: Margarida Cardoso Moreira (The Francis Crick Institute, UK)

Invited Talk

Juan Pascual-Anaya (University of Málaga, Spain)

Genomic and morphological consequences of early vertebrate whole-genome duplication events

Contributed Talk

Brent Hawkins (Boston Children's Hospital, USA)

Functional and regulatory conservation of dorsal-ventral patterning mechanisms across the fin to limb transition

Contributed Talk

Chase Brownstein (Yale University, USA) 

Phylogenomic evidence for a hidden extinction in Miocene oceanic vertebrates

Flash Talks (5 min each)

Diego Safian (The Francis Crick Institute, UK)

Cellular and molecular drivers of the independent origins of the placenta in the family Poeciliidae

Kazuhide Miyamoto (Tohoku University, Japan)

Morphogenetic mechanism of the spiny ray and morphological diversification in the Acanthomorpha fish fin

Tetsuya Nakamura (Rutgers University, USA)

The functions of the heterogeneity of embryonic origins in the neck and shoulder evolution

Keynote Talk

Sam Giles (University of Birmingham, UK) 

A palaeontological perspective on the early evolution of the largest living vertebrate group

Session 2: The Omics of Fish Evo-Devo

Chair: Irene Adrian-Kalchhauser (University of Bern, Switzerland)

Invited Talk

Elise Parey (University College of London, UK)

Double trouble: deep dive into the early genomic evolution of teleost fishes

Contributed Talk - On Zoom

Qi Zhou (Zhejiang University, China)

Independent Evolution of Sex Chromosomes and Male Pregnancy– Related Genes in Two Seahorse Species 

Contributed Talk

Andrew Thompson (Western Michigan University, USA)

The Genomics of Eco-Evo-Devo in Killifishes

Contributed Talk

Johanna Kowalko (Lehigh University, USA)

Genetic underpinnings of eye evolution in the cavefish Astyanax mexicanus

Flash Talks (5 min each)

María José López-Fernández (University of Barcelona, Spain)

First-time cis-regulatory interactions between mammal- and plant-specific TFs and the zebrafish genome

Niladri Mondal (KU Leuven, Belgium)

Genome and body size diversity of the fishes using comparative phylogenetic methods

Filipe Castro (FCUP/CIIMAR, Portugal)

The River and the Sea: a gene loss and duplication domino parallel the transition of the striped eel-marine catfish

Session 3: The Evo-Devo of Fish Biodiversity

(Chair: Emília Santos, University of Cambridge, UK)

Invited Talk

Gareth Fraser (University of Florida, USA) 

Dental and craniofacial diversity in chondrichthyan fishes: head jaws and odd faces

Contributed Talk

Eric Surette (Boston College, USA)

shh in the embryonic fin fold determines regional proliferation rates, sculpting adult caudal fin shape

Contributed Talk

Aaron Hickey (University of Cambridge, UK)

Unravelling the mechanisms underlying egg-spot evolution and development in Astatotilapia calliptera 

Contributed Talk

Satoshi Ansai (Kyoto University, Japan)

Evolutionary and molecular mechanisms underlying diversified sexually selected traits in medaka fishes

Flash Talks (5 min each)

Ryutaro Ueda (Tohoku University, Japan)

Rapid Body Coloration Changes in Oryzias celebensis as a Social Signal Influenced by Environmental Background

Tomas Suchanek (Charles University Prague, Czech Republic)

Single odontodes with dental patterning on the pectoral fin of bichir

Roland Zimm (ENS/Institute of Functional Genomics Lyon, France)

A macroscopic perspective on heterodonty in sharks and its link to ecological strategies

Invited Talk

David Parichy (University of Virginia, USA)

Deep homology and evolutionary diversification in teleost squamation: lessons from zebrafish

Day 2: Tuesday, June 25th

Session 4: The Developmental Mechanisms of Fish Evolution

Chair: Mari Kawaguchi (Sophia University, Japan)

Invited Talk

Sylvie Rétaux (Institut des Neurosciences Paris‑Saclay, France)

Evolution of early developmental cis-regulation in blind cavefish

Contributed Talk

Shengfeng Huang (Sun Yat-sen University, China)

The evolution of the supporting and protecting functions of endogenous chitin in vertebrates

Flash Talks (5 min each)

Marleen Klann (Okinawa Institute of Technology, Japan)

Cell-cell communication as an underlying principle governing color pattern formation in teleost fishes

Sapna Chhabra (European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany)

Plastic clock, robust response: Thermal robustness of vertebrate segmentation

Lily Fogg (University of Basel, Switzerland)

The ontogeny of diversification: The developmental axis of adaptive radiation in African cichlid fishes

Invited Talk

Ralf Schneider (Kiel University, Germany)

Tinkering with development – how heterochronic shifts link diversification to ontogeny in syngnathids (pipefish & seahorses)

Keynote Talk

Daniel Pauly (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Breathing Water in a Warming World: On Overview of the Gill-Oxygen Limitation Theory (GOLT)

Session 5: The Future of Fish Evo-Devo

Chair: Hugo Gante (KU Leuven, Belgium) 

Invited Talk

Kory Evans (Rice University, USA)

Function Drives the Integration and Modularity of the Fish Skull at Different Evolutionary Scales

ECR Award Talk

Yoshitaka Tanaka (Kyoto University, Japan)

Developmental restriction of pectoral fin radials in teleosts by the buffering effect of Hedgehog signaling

ECR Award Talk

Christabel-Floi Bucao (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)

Are genes with variable expression more evolvable? Evidence from the teleost and salmonid whole-genome duplications

ECR Award Talk

Aleksandra Marconi (University of Cambridge, UK)

Exploring the genomic and developmental factors shaping brain evolution and divergence in Malawi cichlids