June 15, 2017
9:45 Organizing committee
Welcoming remarks
10:00 Jason Chin, MRC-LMB, GB
"Reprogramming the Genetic Code"
10:30 Yves Van De Peer, Ghent University, BE
"Of dups and dinos: evolution at the K/Pg boundary"
11:00 Break
11:30 Daniel Jarosz, Stanford University, USA
"Remembering the Past: A New Form of Protein-Based Inheritance"
12:00 William Martin, University of Dusseldorf, DE
"The physiology and habitat of the last universal common ancestor, Luca"
12:30 Lunch & Poster Session
14:00 Samantha Morris, Washington University, USA
"A Single-Cell Resolution Blueprint for Fate Engineering"
14:30 Delphine Aymoz, University of Lausanne, CH
"Timing of gene expression in budding yeast mating, quantified by dynamic translocation
reporters"
14:45 Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo, University of Barcelona, ES
"How unicellular protists evolved into multicellular animals? A genomic and cell biological
approach"
15:15 Darren Parker, University of Lausanne, CH
"What happens to sex-biased gene expression following a transition to asexuality?"
15:30 Panel discussion
Looking 25 years into the future
16:30 End
18:00: Public lecture: Rosemary Grant & Peter Grant, Princeton University, USA
"40 years of evolution in the Galápagos: how and why species multiply and change"
June 16, 2017
10:00 Marileen Dogterom, TU Delft, NL
"Building minimal mitotic spindles in artificial confinement"
10:30 Karen Sears, University of Illinois, USA
"The Developmental Timing of Mammalian Limb Diversification"
11:00 Break
11:30 Yolanda Schaerli, University of Lausanne, CH
"The mechanisms of gene regulatory networks constrain evolution - A lesson from synthetic
stripe-forming circuits"
12:00 Patrick McGrath, Georgia Tech, USA
"50 years of solitude: Lessons of evolution from a neglected strain of C. elegans"
12:30 Thomas Auer, University of Lausanne, CH
"Evolution of attraction in the olfactory system"
12:45 Lunch
14:00 Rosemary Grant, Princeton University, USA
"Innovations through Introgression"
14:30 Noah Whiteman, University of California, Berkeley, USA
"Evolutionary genomics of parasitic Drosophila"
15:00 Sylvia Cremer, IST, AT
"Immunity of insect societies"
15:30 Dario Floreano, EPFL, CH
"Biologically inspired drones"
16:00 Conclusions
16:30 End
