The Schedule
Log-in: 12:45 - 12:55
Session 1
Illuminating the Tree of Life
The exploration of the archaeal domain of life as a window into key transitions in life´s evolution
Anja Spang (NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Netherlands)
Resolving recalcitrant fungal relationships - are our best models good enough?
László Nagy (Biological Research Centre, Hungary)
Functional phylogenomics: orthology inference, and gene and genome evolution in the plant order Caryophyllales
Ya Yang (University of Minnesota, USA)
Break 14:00 - 14:15
Session 2
Comparative genomics
Genomic adaptations to aquatic and aerial life in mayflies and the origin of insect wings
Isabel Almudí (Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo, Spain)
Syntenic transitions in metazoan genomes and their regulatory impact
Oleg Simakov (University of Vienna, Austria)
14:55 - 15:15
Comparative genomics of nectar feeding in bats and birds
Luis Eguiarte (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico)
Special Session
Introducing PCI: a free recommendation process of scientific preprints based on peer-reviews
Log-in: 12:45 - 13:00
Session 3
Methodological advances in phylogenomics
When the uncertain meets the incomplete: robust measures of phylogenetic incongruence for datasets with missing data
Xiaofan Zhou (South China Agricultural University, China)
The Multilocus Multispecies Coalescent: A Flexible New Model of Gene Family Evolution
Céline Scornavacca (Institute of Evolutionary Sciences of Montpellier, France)
OrthoFinder: Building a Fully Phylogenetic Orthology Analysis
David Emms (Steve Kelly Lab - University of Oxford, UK)
Break 14:00 - 14:15
Session 4
PhD symposium
Errors in orthology inference: a bug or a feature?
Paschalis Natsidis (Max Telford lab - University College London, UK)
14:35 - 14:55
Making sense of alien genomes - Synteny and regulation in cephalopods
Hannah Schmidbaur (Oleg Simakov lab - University of Vienna, Austria)
Combining fossils and phylogenomics to understand the origins of sand dollars
Nicolás Mongiardino Koch (Derek Briggs lab - Yale University, USA)
Phylogenomic analyses of 2,786 genes in 158 Lineages support a root of the eukaryotic tree of life between opisthokonts and all other lineages
Mario Cerón-Romero (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
Special Session
Easy-to-implement guidelines to create environments with better gender equality and diversity
Elena Gómez-Díaz (Instituto de Parasitología y Biomedecina, Spain)
