Program



Programa SMBE SA 2022

31 October - 4 November Montevideo, Uruguay

Scientific committee: Federico H. Hoffmann, Chair (Mississippi State University, USA) ● Luisa Berná (Universidad de la República - UdelaR, Uruguay) ● Lucía Franchini (CONICET, Argentina) ● Andrés Iriarte (UdelaR, Uruguay) ● Enrique P. Lessa (UdelaR, Uruguay) ● Mariana Nery (Universidade de Campinas, Brazil) ● Juan C. Opazo (Universidad Austral de Chile) ● Lucía Spangenberg (Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, Uruguay) ● Ivanna H. Tomasco (UdelaR, Uruguay).

Sponsors: Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE); Programa de Desarrollo de las Ciencias Básicas (PEDECIBA): Área de Biología, Maestría en Bioinformática; Agencia Nacional de Investigación e Innovación (ANII); Universidad de la República (UdelaR): Comisión Sectorial de Investigación Científica (CSIC), Facultad de Ciencias, Facultad de Ingeniería; Instituto Pasteur de Montevideo (IPMon).

Welcome to the regional meeting of the Society for the Study of Molecular Evolution in South America in Montevideo, Uruguay. We have an exciting program, with presentations from a diverse set of speakers from the region plus guests from Ireland, Spain and the US, and ample opportunities to interact with colleagues, explore shared interests and hopefully build new collaborations. The meeting is split between the Institut Pasteur, and the School of Engineering and the School of Sciences from the Universidad de la República from Uruguay. The hotel for the meeting is very close to ‘La Rambla’, the avenue that runs along the coastline. You should definitely take a stroll there. The program includes two socials: the Welcome Social and the Closing Social, and leaves room for you to make new connections with fellow scientists and enjoy what Montevideo has to offer. We hope you enjoy this opportunity to learn about the science done in the region and enjoy our city!


PROGRAM OUTLINE


Monday, 31 October 2022

6:00 PM Bus from Hotel Palladium to Facultad de Ingeniería

6:30 PM Opening ceremony & conference; Welcome social

9:30 PM Bus to Hotel Palladium.

Tuesday, 1 November 2022

8:30 AM Coffee with a scientist. Hotel Palladium cafeteria.

9:30 AM Bus from Hotel Palladium to Institut Pasteur de Montevideo (IPMon)

10 AM-7:30 PM Meeting activities: IPMon, Facultad de Ciencias (FCien)

7:30 PM Bus to Hotel Palladium

Wednesday, 2 November 2022

8:30 AM Coffee with a scientist. Hotel Palladium cafeteria.

9:30 AM Bus from Hotel Palladium to FCien

10 AM-7:30 PM Meeting activities: FCien

7:30 PM Bus to Hotel Palladium

Thursday, 3 November 2022

8:30 AM Coffee with a scientist. Hotel Palladium cafeteria.

9:30 AM Bus from Hotel Palladium to IPMon

10 AM-7:30 PM Meeting activities: IPMon, FCien

5:00 PM Bus to Hotel Palladium

6:00 PM Closing conference & social: Hotel Palladium.

Friday, 4 November 2022

8:30 AM Coffee with a scientist. Hotel Palladium cafeteria.

9:30 AM Montevideo walking tour.


PROGRAM


Monday, 31 October 2022


6:00 PM Bus from Hotel Palladium to Facultad de Ingeniería


Edificio Polifuncional “José Luis Massera”, Facultad de Ingeniería, UdelaR. Nelson Landoni 631: Salón C12


6:30 PM Conference opening

6:45 PM Eduardo Eizirik: Carnivoran evolutionary genomics

7:45 PM Welcome social.

9:30 PM Bus to Hotel Palladium


Tuesday, 1 November 2022


8:30 AM Coffee with a scientist. Hotel Palladium Cafeteria

9:30 AM Bus from Hotel Palladium to Institut Pasteur de Montevideo


Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, Mataojo 2020: Salón de Actos


10:00 AM Daniel Chávez: El uso de genomas enteros en carnívoros sudamericanos y aves de las islas Galápagos.

11:00 AM Coffee break

11:30 AM Oral session 1:

  • Paco Majic & Joshua L. Payne: Non-heritable mutations as foresight for adaptation.

  • Daniela Araya-Ortega et al.: Impact of somatic mutations in two clonal selections of Carménère cultivated in Chile.

  • Marianoel Pereira-Gómez et al.: Mutation rate modulation as antiviral strategy in coronaviruses

  • Leo Tomás Camino & Caroline N. Bacquet: Gene expression of the Hsp70 genes as a response of thermal stress in the Heliconius erato butterfly.


12:30 PM Lunch


2:00 PM Symposium: Evolution of multigene families

  • Juan C. Opazo: Evolutionary patterns in multigene families in vertebrates

  • Federico Hoffmann: Tandem and whole-genome duplications in the evolution of vertebrate troponins.

  • Mariana Nery: The evolutionary history of aquatic vertebrates told by their genomes.

4:30 PM Coffee break


Facultad de Ciencias, UdelaR, Iguá 4225: hall, Salón de Actos

5:00 PM Poster session 1

6:30 PM John Novembre: Visualization and implications of geographic structure in genetic data

7:30 PM Bus to Hotel Palladium


Wednesday, 2 November 2022

8:30 AM Coffee with a scientist. Hotel Palladium Cafeteria

9:30 AM Bus from Hotel Palladium to Facultad de Ciencias


Facultad de Ciencias, UdelaR, Iguá 4225: hall, Salón de Actos


10:00 AM Juliana Vianna: Vertebrate genomics and biodiversity: from population structure to speciation

11:00 AM Coffee break

11:30 AM Oral session 2:

  • Flavio Pazos Obregón et al.: Gene function prediction in five model eukaryotes exclusively based on gene relative location through machine learning

  • Titilayomi Ayomide Otenaike et al.: Parkin Overexpression-Induced Toxicity in D. melanogaster: Beneficial Action of Ellagic Acid

  • María Inés Fariello: Detecting selection in admixed populations using hapFLK

  • Ighor Leonardo Arantes Gomes et al.: SARS-CoV-2 variants Delta and Omicron in Amazonas, a Brazilian setting with high levels of hybrid immunity


12:30 PM Lunch

2:00 PM Julián Echave: When and why enzyme active sites influence the evolution of distant residues

3:00 PM Martín Graña: Gamete fusion proteins in Archaea.

4:00 PM Coffee break

4:30 PM Poster session 2

6:00 PM Jay Storz: Genomic analysis of high-altitude adaptation in Andean mice

7:00 PM Bus to Hotel Palladium


Thursday, 3 November 2022


8:30 AM Coffee with a scientist. Hotel Palladium Cafeteria

9:30 AM Bus from Hotel Palladium to Institut Pasteur de Montevideo


Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, Mataojo 2020: Salón de Actos

10:00 AM Rosa Fernández: Parallel and convergent (macro) evolution as key drivers of extreme habitat shifts in animals

11:00 AM Coffee break

11:30 AM Gonzalo Moratorio: Codon volatility determines genetic robustness of RNA viruses.

12:30 PM Lunch

2:00 PM Nicolás Frankel: Structure and evolution of regulatory DNA: shavenbaby and beyond

3:00 PM Luisa Berná: Recent insights into the elusive mitochondrial genomes of apicomplexa

3:45 PM Andrés Iriarte: Evolutionary analysis of genome-specific duplications in flatworm genomes.

4:30 PM Coffee break

5:00 PM Bus to Hotel Palladium


Hotel Palladium, Tomás de Tezanos 1146: Sala Millenium

6:00 PM Aoife McLysaght: Untangling vertebrate genome duplications: challenges and implications.

7:00 PM Closing social.


Friday, 4 November 2022


8:0 AM Coffee with a scientist. Hotel Palladium Cafeteria

9:30 AM Montevideo walking tour


Poster sessions


Poster session 1. Tuesday, 1 November, 5:00 PM. Facultad de Ciencias


  1. Paola Sosa et al.: Development and implementation of a pipeline for the identification of lncRNAs in Trypanosoma cruzi.

  2. Germán Traglia et al.: Identification and conservation of small RNAs in different serovars of Salmonella enterica.

  3. Agustin Felipe Bilat et al.: Characterization of transposable element families in Fasciolidae.

  4. Henrique da Rocha Moreira Antoniolli et al.: Genome size drives the plasticity in the fraction of repetitive elements and both reflect the evolutionary history of in statu nascendi species.

  5. Bairon Hernández et al.: Exploring exonizations of Transposable Elements in primates.

  6. Javier Calvelo: Identification and evolution of Splice-leader RNAs in flatworms.

  7. Beatriz Helena Macari Daros et al.: microRNA in cetaceans: an in silico approach.

  8. Fernanda Fontes et al. (presenter: Vera Solferino): Neotropical Rainforests connections – a study with spider species.

  9. Analice Gabrielle Marquezin Gomes et al.: Identifying phenotypic traits associated to Brazilian Dry Diagonal environment in the spider Ischnothele annulata.

  10. Joaquín Arenzo et al. (presenter: Andrés Parada): Looking for molecular signatures of adaptive evolution in subterranean octodontid rodents with a genomic approach.

  11. Bruno D'Alessandro: Molecular clock models applied to lineage divergence dating in Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis circulating in Uruguay.

  12. Lucas Oliveira Mello: Drivers of diversification in a Neotropical tarantula genus.


Poster session 2. Wednesday, 2 November, 5:00 PM. Facultad de Ciencias

  1. Mauricio Langleib et al.: Disentangling ancient phylogenetic relationships between cellular fusogens with sequences and structures: the case of fusexins.

  2. Maite Hilario et al.: The role of positive directional selection in the evolution of ELAPOR1, a recently identified regulator of insulin, in hystricognath rodents.

  3. Nicolás Boullosa et al.: The evolutionary history of the urea transporter gene family (SLC14A) in tetrapods.

  4. Elisa Karen da Silva Ramos et al.: Molecular footprints on osmoregulation system associated with new environment colonization in neotropical aquatic mammals.

  5. Giovanna Selleghin Veiga et al.: Molecular evolution of genes related to antioxidant response in aquatic mammals.

  6. Diego Simón et al.: ZAP was born to wave the flag: the "Fortunate Son" of the PARP superfamily.

  7. Tammy Paulina Pástor et al.: The intrinsically disordered region of the oncoprotein GOLPH3 of the Golgi apparatus has distinct properties in bilaterians.

  8. Jessica Abigail Galarza et al.: Evolution and functional analysis of the Golgi apparatus GOLPH3 oncoprotein N-terminal region reveals different capacity of this protein to undergo liquid-liquid phase separation in mammals.

  9. Sebastián Alejandro Triviño et al.: Evolutionary analysis of the intrinsically disordered N-terminal domain of GOLPH3L and the impact on its biochemical properties in amniotes.

  10. Yanileth Fernanda López Tacoaman et al.: Study of the antimicrobial potential of the cutaneous secretion of Atelopus nanay (BUFONIDAE).

  11. Melisa Magallanes et al.: The bienzymatic sucrase-isomaltase/α-glucosidase duplication system in Strisores, a functional paradox?

  12. Joaquín Pereira et al. Identification and analysis of multigene families in Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora caninum.