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Speakers (attendance confirmed)

  1. Takashi Abe, Nagahama Biological University, Nagahama, Japan
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Workshop 8: Virus evolution
    Title: Prediction of directional changes of influenza A virus genome sequences using BLSOM with emphasis on pandemic H1N1/09
  2. Christina Adler, The University of Adelaide, Australia
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Symposium 7: New approaches in ancient DNA
    Title: Ancient bacterial DNA from dental calculus records the impact of diet and cultural change on the evolution of human pathogens and disease
  3. Deepa Agashe, Harvard University, U.S.A.
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Symposium 3: Compensatory fitness interactions and genome evolution
    Title: Experimental analysis of the strength of selection on codon usage, and its impact on evolutionary dynamics
  4. Charles Aquadro, Cornell University, U.S.A.
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Workshop 12: Recombination and the efficacy of selection
    Title: Two decades of studies of the impact of recombination on DNA variability
  5. Hitoshi Araki, Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Switzerland
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Symposium 12: Evolution as a stochastic process
    Title: Stochastic processes in biology and their evolutionary consequences
  6. John Archibald, Dalhousie University, Canada
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Symposium 4: Symbiosis as the source of evolutionary novelties
    Title: One plus one equals one: secondary endosymbiosis and genome mosaicism in microbial eukaryotes
  7. Courtney Babbitt, Duke University, Durham, U.S.A.
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Workshop 7: Comparative and evolutionary neurogenomics in humans and non-human primates
    Title: Conservation and function of noncoding RNAs in primate brain evolution
  8. Doris Bachtrog, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Workshop 12: Recombination and the efficacy of selection
    Title: Degeneration and masculinization of evolving sex chromosomes in Drosophila revealed by next-generation sequencing
  9. Georgii A. Bazykin, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 5: Drosophila evolution
    Title: Conservative segments of proteins evolve under the strongest positive selection
  10. Robert G. Beiko, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Workshop 6: Assessing and visualizing the geographic and temporal structure of biodiversity
    Title: Questions at the interface of evolution, ecology, space and time
  11. Gill Bejerano, Stanford University, Stanford, U.S.A.
    Time: Saturday, July 30, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Symposium 13: Present and future of the neutral theory
    Title: Mutation & function in the human genome cis-regulatory landscape
  12. Matthew Bellgard, Murdoch University, Australia
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Workshop 14: Next generation sequencing technologies in evolutionary studies
    Title: Evolutionary conserved microRNAs are ubiquitously expressed compared to tick-specific miRNAs in the cattle tick Rhipicephalus microplus
  13. Giorgio Bernardi, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Italy
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Symposium 10: Evolution of genome structure
    Title: Isochores: structure, function and evolution
  14. Jaume Bertranpetit, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Symposium 1: Evolution of modern human
    Title: Recombination gives a new insight in the effective population size and the history of the Old World human population
  15. Andrea Betancourt, Vetmeduni Vienna, Austria
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Workshop 12: Recombination and the efficacy of selection
    Title: Recombination and adaptation in Drosophila
  16. Holly M. Bik, Hubbard Center for Genome Studies, University of New Hampshire, U.S.A.
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Workshop 14: Next generation sequencing technologies in evolutionary studies
    Title: Rapid biodiversity assessment of microbial eukaryotes using high-throughput sequencing: A case study from the BP oil spill
  17. Antoine Blancher, University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse III, France
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Workshop 10: Molecular biology and evolution of blood group and MHC antigens in primates
    Title: Impact of MHC polymorphism on various biological parameters in Macaca fascicularis
  18. David Bogumil, Heinrich Heine-University Duesseldorf, Germany
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Workshop 9: Modeling protein structural and energetic constraints on sequence evolution
    Title: Ten chaperone modules fold and mediate evolution of ten protein classes in yeast
  19. Juergen Brosius, University of Muenster, Münster, Germany
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Workshop 2: Reverse transcriptase as an evolutionary force
    Title: The RNA world we are still living in
  20. Gaelen Burke, The University of Georgia, U.S.A.
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Symposium 4: Symbiosis as the source of evolutionary novelties
    Title: The genome sequence of Serratia symbiotica, a recently evolved symbiont of aphids
  21. Ashley Byun, Fairfield University, U.S.A.
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Symposium 10: Evolution of genome structure
    Title: A 94 genome survey of the evolution of eukaryotic duplicate genes
  22. James J. Cai, Texas A&M University, U.S.A.
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Symposium 9: Evolutionary systems biology
    Title: Broker genes in human disease
  23. Jose L. Campos, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, U.K.
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 5: Drosophila evolution
    Title: Molecular evolution in the non-recombining heterochromatic regions of D. melanogaster
  24. Reed A. Cartwright, Rice University, Houston, U.S.A.
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 5: Drosophila evolution
    Title: Neutral evolution of robustness In Drosophila microRNA precursors
  25. Nicholas Casewell, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, U.K.
    Time: Friday, July 29, 2011, during 16:30-18:30
    Category: Walter Fitch Student Symposium
    Title: Reconsidering the origin of venom in squamates"
  26. Frank Chan, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Germany
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Workshop 11: Selective sweeps in complex demographic and genetic systems
    Title: Identification of orchestrator genes for bodyweight in mice under long-term selection
  27. Hsiao-Han Chang, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, U.S.A.
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Workshop 14: Next generation sequencing technologies in evolutionary studies
    Title: Population genetic inferences of Plasmodium falciparum based on 25 fully sequenced genomes from Senegal
  28. Yao-Ming Chang, Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 3: Plant evolution
    Title: Using gene duplication patterns to profile evolution of C4 photosynthesis
  29. Lin Chao, University of California, San Diego, U.S.A.
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Symposium 3: Compensatory fitness interactions and genome evolution
    Title: Evolution of compensatory mutations
  30. Liangbiao Chen, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Symposium 2: Gene evolution and phenotypic adaptation
    Title: Escape from adaptive conflict (EAC) as the evolutionary mechanism underlying the evolution of an antifreeze protein
  31. Tzen-Yuh Chiang, National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Workshop 3: Plant evolutionary genomics
    Title: Genomic divergence between sister species in plants: cases in Arabidopsis and Miscanthus
  32. Daniel Chourrout, University of Bergen, Norway
    Time: Saturday, July 30, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Symposium 14: Current problems in vertebrate evolutionary development
    Title: What happened to the genome of vertebrate closest living relatives?
  33. Sung Chun, Washington University, St. Louis, U.S.A.
    Time: Friday, July 29, 2011, during 16:30-18:30
    Category: Walter Fitch Student Symposium
    Title: Hitchhiking regions are enriched with deleterious mutations within the human genome
  34. Yves Clement, Max Planck Institute For Molecular Gentics, Germany
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 2: Mammalian evolution
    Title: Mice and men are different: insights from nucleotide substitution rates
  35. Josep Comeron, University of Iowa, U.S.A.
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Workshop 12: Recombination and the efficacy of selection
    Title: Intra-specific variation in recombination rates in Drosophila melanogaster based on ultra-dense crossing over and gene conversion maps
  36. Alan Cooper, Australian Centre for, Australia
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Symposium 7: New approaches in ancient DNA
    Title: Ancient DNA, climate change and the Devil
  37. Andy Clark, Cornell University, Ithaca, U.S.A.
    Time: Saturday, July 30, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Symposium 13: Present and future of the neutral theory
    Title: Properties of neutral variation in large samples (n > Ne) drawn from an explosively growing population
  38. Richard Cordaux, Universite de Poitiers - CNRS, France
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Workshop 2: Reverse transcriptase as an evolutionary force
    Title: Remarkable abundance and evolution of reverse transcriptases in a bacterial endosymbiont (Wolbachia)
  39. Juan Pablo Couso, University of Sussex, Sussex, U.K.
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Symposium 11: Molecular mechanisms governing morphological divergence of arthropod appendages
    Title: Introduction
  40. Jessica Crisci, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, U.S.A.
    Time: Friday, July 29, 2011, during 16:30-18:30
    Category: Walter Fitch Student Symposium
    Title: On characterizing adaptive events unique to modern humans
  41. J. Duminil, Free University of Brussels. Brussels, Belgium
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Workshop 6: Assessing and visualizing the geographic and temporal structure of biodiversity
    Title: The relative influence of spatial and temporal gradients on genetic diversity distribution of African tropical species: The case of Erythrophleum (Leguminosae-Caesalpinioideae)
  42. Allan Drummond, Harvard University, U.S.A.
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Symposium 9: Evolutionary systems biology
    Title: Natural selection and the fidelity of protein synthesis
  43. Eric Y. Durand, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Symposium 7: New approaches in ancient DNA
    Title: Testing for archaic admixture between closely related populations
  44. Laurent Duret, CNRS, University Lyon, France
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Symposium 10: Evolution of genome structure
    Title: The dynamics of recombination hotspots in the human genome: insights from ancient DNA
  45. Ingo Ebersberger, Max F. Perutz Laboratories GmbH, Vienna, Austria
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 1: Microbe evolution
    Title: A consistency-based reconstruction of the fungal tree of life
  46. Toshikazu Ebisuzaki, RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, Japan
    Time: Saturday, July 30, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Symposium 15: Evolution of life: a multi-disciplinary approach, from universe to genomes
    Title: The Earth’s surface environmental change by the supernova explosion and collision of molecular clouds
  47. Greg Ewing, Mathematics and BioSciences Group, University of Vienna, Austria
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Workshop 11: Selective sweeps in complex demographic and genetic systems
    Title: Simulating sweeps and likelihood free inference with msms
  48. Jeff Fawcett, Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Hayama, Japan
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Workshop 3: Plant evolutionary genomics
    Title: Higher intron loss rate in Arabidopsis thaliana than A. lyrata due to stronger selection for a smaller genome
  49. Anna Ferrer-Admetlla, UC-Berkeley, Berkeley, U.S.A.
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 7: Human evolution
    Title: Signatures of selection from standing variation in the human genome
  50. Heather A. Flores, Cornell University, Ithaca, U.S.A.
    Time: Friday, July 29, 2011, during 16:30-18:30
    Category: Walter Fitch Student Symposium
    Title: Evolutionary analysis of the bag of marbles gene elucidates both intraspecific function and the consequences of interspecific divergence
  51. Takema Fukatsu, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Symposium 4: Symbiosis as the source of evolutionary novelties
    Title: Intraspecific polymorphism of obligate symbionts: Insights into diversification and evolution of insect-microbe mutualistic associations
  52. Chikara Furusawa, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University, Japan
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Symposium 12: Evolution as a stochastic process
    Title: Genome-wide resequencing and expression analyses of evolved Escherichia coli strains under ethanol stress
  53. Carlos Garcia, Santiago de Compostela University, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 5: Drosophila evolution
    Title: Looking for gene expression sources of inbreeding depression in Drosophila melanogaster
  54. Lucie Gattepaille, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 4: Theory
    Title: 1+1=3; combining SNPs into haplotypes can improve ancestry inference
  55. Kerry Geiler-Samerotte, Harvard University, Cambridge, U.S.A.
    Time: Friday, July 29, 2011, during 16:30-18:30
    Category: Walter Fitch Student Symposium
    Title: The selective cost of misfolded protein toxicity and a concomitant evolutionary adaptation
  56. Jun Gojobori, Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Hayama, Japan
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 2: Mammalian evolution
    Title: Evolutionary rates are elevated for genes with homopolymeric amino acid repeats constituting nondisordered structure
  57. Richard Goldstein, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London, U.K.
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Workshop 9: Modeling protein structural and energetic constraints on sequence evolution
    Title: Analysing site-wise selective constraints using codon-based mutation selection models
  58. Jean-François Gout, Indiana University, U.S.A.
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Symposium 9: Evolutionary systems biology
    Title: The mechanisms and evolutionary roles of nonsense-mediated mRNA decay in C. elegans
  59. Manolo Gouy, CNRS, Lyon, France
    Time: Friday, July 29, 2011, 10:45-11:35
    Category: Plenary Talk 1
    Title: From non-homogeneous evolutionary models to molecular thermometers
  60. Julie Granka, Stanford University, U.S.A.
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Workshop 4: Natural selection in human populations: beyond classic sweeps
    Title: Selective Sweeps in Africans Populations Driven by Demography
  61. Anthony J. Greenberg, Cornell University, Ithaca, U.S.A.
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 5: Drosophila evolution
    Title: Differentiation of metabolic function during incipient speciation in Drosophila melanogaster
  62. Ryan Gutenkunst, University of Arizona, U.S.A.
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Symposium 9: Evolutionary systems biology
    Title: Proteins domains with greater influence on network dynamics evolve more slowly
  63. Lionel Guy, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 1: Microbe evolution
    Title: Selective increase of recombination and variability in host-adaptation systems in Bartonella
  64. Barry Hall, Bellingham Research Institute, U.S.A.
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, during 17:30-18:30
    Category: Special Session: History of Molecular Biology and Evolution
  65. Sara J. Hanson, University of Iowa, Iowa City, U.S.A.
    Time: Friday, July 29, 2011, during 16:30-18:30
    Category: Walter Fitch Student Symposium
    Title: Genome and transcriptome analysis of sexual and asexual reproduction in monogonont rotifers
  66. Daniel Hartl, Harvard University, Cambridge, U.S.A.
    Time: Friday, July 29, 2011, 11:35-12:25
    Category: Plenary Talk 2
    Title: Evolutionary Epigenetics of the Y chromosome of Drosophila
  67. Masami Hasegawa, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Workshop 13: Biodiversity – divergence and convergence in evolution
    Title: Divergence and convergence in evolution
  68. Shigeo Hayashi, RIKEN Center for Developmental Bioly, Kobe, Japan
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Symposium 11: Molecular mechanisms governing morphological divergence of arthropod appendages
    Title: Evolutionary origin of the insect wing via integration of two developmental modules
  69. Bin Z. He, University of Chicago, U.S.A.
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Symposium 3: Compensatory fitness interactions and genome evolution
    Title: Does positive selection drive transcription factor binding site turnover? A test with Drosophila cis-regulatory modules
  70. Peter Heger, Universitaet zu Koeln, Koeln, Germany
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 6: Animal evolution
    Title: The chromatin insulator CTCF and the emergence of Metazoan diversity
  71. Jody Hey, Rutgers University, Piscataway, U.S.A.
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 6: Animal evolution
    Title: New approximate Bayesian methods and the history of the cichlid fishes of Africa's Great Lakes
  72. Tamara Hofer, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 7: Human evolution
    Title: Factors promoting surfing and sectoring during range expansions
  73. Jer-Ming Hu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 3: Plant evolution
    Title: Evolutionary rate heterogeneity in the genome of holoparasitic plant Balanophora laxiflora (Balanophoraceae)
  74. Jung Shan Hwang, UCSI University, Malaysia
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Symposium 8: Origin and diversification of sensory organs
    Title: Phylum-specific genes give the structural novelties to Cnidarian nematocysts
  75. Takeshi Igawa, Hiroshima University, Higashi-hiroshima, Japan
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Workshop 6: Assessing and visualizing the geographic and temporal structure of biodiversity
    Title: Population structures and its causal landscapes of two endangered frog species of genus Odorrana –Different scenarios in two islands
  76. Masaru Iizuka, Kyushu Dental College, Japan
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Symposium 3: Compensatory fitness interactions and genome evolution
    Title: Models of compensatory molecular evolution
  77. Toshimichi Ikemura, Nagahama Institute of Bio-Science and Technology, Japan
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Symposium 10: Evolution of genome structure
    Title: Visualization of genome signatures with BLSOM and its application to eukaryotic and viral genomes
  78. Kazuho Ikeo, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Workshop 14: Next generation sequencing technologies in evolutionary studies
    Title: Genome wide data analysis by using NGS
  79. Masahiro Ikoma, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
    Time: Saturday, July 30, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Symposium 15: Evolution of life: a multi-disciplinary approach, from universe to genomes
    Title: Exo-solar planets; possibility of life on their planets
  80. Takuya Imamura, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Workshop 7: Comparative and evolutionary neurogenomics in humans and non-human primates
    Title: Species-specific promoter-associated noncoding RNA mediates DNA demethylation in macaques
  81. Yuka Imamura-Kawasawa, Yale University School of Medicine, U.S.A.
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Workshop 7: Comparative and evolutionary neurogenomics in humans and non-human primates
    Title: Spatiotemporal transcriptome of the human brain
  82. Hideki Innan, Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Hayama, Japan
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Symposium 3: Compensatory fitness interactions and genome evolution
    Title: The rate of compensatory nucleotide substitution
  83. Naoki Irie, RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Lab for Morphological Evolution, Japan
    Time: Saturday, July 30, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Symposium 14: Current problems in vertebrate evolutionary development
    Title: Transcriptome similarity reveals developmental basis for vertebrate body plan
  84. Yukio Isozaki, The University of Tokyo, Japan
    Time: Saturday, July 30, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Symposium 15: Evolution of life: a multi-disciplinary approach, from universe to genomes
    Title: Palaeozoic-Mesozoic boundary mass extinction: its role in evolution
  85. Kimihito Ito, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Workshop 8: Virus evolution
    Title: Prediction of amino acid substitutions on the hemagglutinin molecules of antigenic variants of influenza A viruses
  86. Takeshi Ito, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Workshop 3: Plant evolutionary genomics
    Title: Comparative genome sequence analyses between African and Asian cultivated rice
  87. Hisakazu Iwama, Kagawa University, Japan
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Symposium 9: Evolutionary systems biology
    Title: MicroRNA networks alter to conform to transcription factor networks adding redundancy and reducing the target gene repertoire for coordinated regulation
  88. Jeffrey Jensen, University of Massachusetts, Medical School, U.S.A.
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Workshop 11: Selective sweeps in complex demographic and genetic systems
    Title: Characterizing the influence of effective population size on the rate of adaptation
  89. Li Jin, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Symposium 1: Evolution of modern human
    Title: Exploring genetic structure of East Asians
  90. Timothy Jinam, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 7: Human evolution
    Title: Evolutionary history of continental South East Asians;"early train" hypothesis based on complete mitochondrial DNA sequences
  91. Richard Jovelin, University of Toronto, Canada
    Time: Saturday, July 30, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Symposium 13: Present and future of the neutral theory
    Title: MicroRNA nucleotide polymorphisms in the nematode Caenorhabditis briggsae reveal candidates for intra-specific functional divergence
  92. Ai Kamijo, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Symposium 8: Origin and diversification of sensory organs
    Title: Evolution of eye field transcription factors in a variety of animal phylum
  93. Kunihiko Kaneko, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Symposium 12: Evolution as a stochastic process
    Title: Plasticity and robustness: a macroscopic theory in terms of phenotypic fluctuations
  94. Kazutaka Katoh, CBRC, AIST, Japan
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Workshop 1: Methods for multiple alignment and phylogenetic tree making for large sequence data set
    Title: Effect of adding homologs in phylogenetic analysis
  95. Yukako Katsura, Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Hayama, Japan
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 2: Mammalian evolution
    Title: The differentiation of sex chromosomes in eutherians and marsupials
  96. Shoji Kawamura, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
    Time: Friday, July 29, 2011, 14:20-15:10
    Category: Plenary Talk 3
    Title: Evolutionary study of vertebrate color vision: from fish transgenesis to field primatology, and to human variation
  97. Peter D. Keightley, University of Edinburgh, U.K.
    Time: Saturday, July 30, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Symposium 13: Present and future of the neutral theory
    Title: Adaptive evolution of conserved noncoding elements in mice
  98. Philipp Khaitovich, Partner Institute of Computational Biology, Shanghai, China
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Workshop 7: Comparative and evolutionary neurogenomics in humans and non-human primates
    Title: Transcriptome sequencing in human brain evolution
  99. Jeffrey M Kidd, Stanford University, Stanford, U.S.A.
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Workshop 4: Natural selection in human populations: beyond classic sweeps
    Title: Out of Africa migrations determine the distribution of deleterious variants in diverse human genomes
  100. Yoshitomo Kikuchi, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Symposium 4: Symbiosis as the source of evolutionary novelties
    Title: The winnowing in an insect-microbe symbiosis: bean bug selectively takes up a Burkholderia symbiont through specific gut structure and morphogenesis
  101. Hyunchul Kim, Keio University, Japan
    Time: Friday, July 29, 2011, during 16:30-18:30
    Category: Walter Fitch Student Symposium
    Title: Protein evolvability is controlled by transcription-associated mutagenesis responding to the degree of nutritional stress
  102. Yuseob Kim, Ewha Womans University, Korea
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Workshop 11: Selective sweeps in complex demographic and genetic systems
    Title: Selective sweeps in geographically structured populations
  103. Koryu Kin, Yale University, U.S.A.
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 6: Animal evolution
    Title: Exploring the sister cell type of endometrial stromal cells using RNA-seq data
  104. Jun Kitano, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Symposium 6: Molecular evolution of speciation
    Title: Genomic and functional characterization of a neo-sex chromosome important for stickleback speciation
  105. Takashi Kitano, Ibaragi University, Hitachi, Japan
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Workshop 10: Molecular biology and evolution of blood group and MHC antigens in primates
    Title: The functional A allele was resurrected via recombination in the human ABO blood group gene
  106. Wen-Ya Ko, University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Workshop 11: Selective sweeps in complex demographic and genetic systems
    Title: Spatially heterogeneous selection on human ApoL1 variants among diverse African populations in trypanosomiasis endemic areas
  107. Ichizo Kobayashi, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Symposium 5: Genome evolution: surprises from microbes
    Title: DNA duplication associated with inversion (DDAI) and domain movement (DoMo): two novel genome rearrangement mechanisms discovered through genome comparison
  108. Yuki Kobayashi, Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Workshop 8: Virus evolution
    Title: No evidence for natural selection on endogenous Borna-like nucleoprotein elements in primates
  109. Tina Koestler, University of Vienna, Austria
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Workshop 1: Methods for multiple alignment and phylogenetic tree making for large sequence data set
    Title: rEvolver: Simulating Sequence Evolution Under Domain Constraints
  110. Kenji K. Kojima, Genetic Information Research Institute, U.S.A.
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Workshop 2: Reverse transcriptase as an evolutionary force
    Title: Ancient domestication of tyrosine recombinase-encoding crypton family of DNA transposons
  111. Johannes Krause, Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Tuebingen, Germany
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Symposium 7: New approaches in ancient DNA
    Title: What makes us human: Insights from sequencing extinct hominin genomes
  112. Kirill Kryukov, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Workshop 1: Methods for multiple alignment and phylogenetic tree making for large sequence data set
    Title: Alignment free phylogeny reconstruction using oligonucleotide frequencies and spacing patterns
  113. Hiroshi Kudoh, Center for Ecological Reearch, Kyoto University, Japan
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Symposium 12: Evolution as a stochastic process
    Title: Studying gene function 'in natura': Robust control of a flowering-time gene in natural conditions
  114. Masahiko Kumagai, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 7: Human evolution
    Title: Construction of rice chloroplast DNA reference data and its application for ancient DNA analysis of over 2,000 years old rice seed remains
  115. Sudir Kumar, Center for Evol. Medicine & Informatics, Arizona State Univ, U.S.A.
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Workshop 1: Methods for multiple alignment and phylogenetic tree making for large sequence data set
    Title: Maximum likelihood methods in MEGA5
  116. Chih-Horng Kuo, Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 1: Microbe evolution
    Title: The life and death of pseudogenes in bacterial genomes
  117. Shigehiro Kuraku, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 6: Animal evolution
    Title: Reasons why dating the two-round whole genome duplications is so difficult
  118. Nori Kurata, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Symposium 6: Molecular bases of speciation
    Title: Reproductive barriers in rice diversification
  119. Yvonne Lai, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 6: Animal evolution
    Title: Evolution of the fatty acid-binding protein gene family in Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar)
  120. Yuh Chwen G. Lee, University of California, Davis, U.S.A.
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 5: Drosophila evolution
    Title: Population genomics of Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila simulans protein coding sequences
  121. Jessica W. Leigh, University of Otago, New Zealand
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Workshop 1: Methods for multiple alignment and phylogenetic tree making for large sequence data set
    Title: Evaluating incongruence: One size doesn't fit all
  122. Haipeng Li, Institute for Computational Biology, SIBS, CAS, China
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Workshop 11: Selective sweeps in complex demographic and genetic systems
    Title: A new test for detecting recent positive selection that is free from the confounding impacts of demography
  123. Wen-Hsiung Li, University of Chicago, U.S.A.
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Workshop 5: Evolutionary diversity revealed by comparative transcriptomics
    Title: Epigenetic factors in the evolution of gene regulation
  124. David Liberles, University of Wyoming, Laramie, U.S.A.
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Workshop 9: Modeling protein structural and energetic constraints on sequence evolution
    Title: The evolution of protein sequences under structural and functional constraint
  125. Qingxin Liu, Laboratory of Developmental Genetics, Shandong Agricultural University, China
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Symposium 2: Gene evolution and phenotypic adaptation
    Title: Functional analysis of a conserved transcription factor Apt
  126. John M. Logsdon, Jr., University of Iowa, Iowa, U.S.A.
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 4: Theory
    Title: Molecular evolution of meiotic genes in sexual and asexual rotifers
  127. Manyuan Long, The University of Chicago, U.S.A.
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Symposium 2: Gene evolution and phenotypic adaptation
    Title: Introduction
    128. &
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Workshop 2: Reverse transcriptase as an evolutionary force
    Title: Phenotypes of retrogenes and evolution of developmental genetic programs
  128. Partha Majumder, National Institute of Biomedical Genomics, Kalyani, India
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Symposium 1: Evolution of modern human
    Title: The human genetic history of South Asia, with special reference to India
  129. Izabela Makalowska, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Workshop 2: Reverse transcriptase as an evolutionary force
    Title: Retrogenes and the mode of their evolution
  130. Kateryna Makova, Penn State University, University Park, U.S.A.
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 6: Animal evolution
    Title: Dynamics of mitochondrial heteroplasmy in three families: a repeatable re-sequencing study
  131. Takashi Makino, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 6: Animal evolution
    Title: Genome-wide coldspots for gene copy number variation in vertebrates
  132. Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Workshop 13: Biodiversity – divergence and convergence in evolution
    Title: Characterizing Neanderthal admixture using the joint derived SFS with humans
  133. William Martin, University of Duesseldorf, Germany
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Symposium 5: Genome evolution: surprises from microbes
    Title: Endosymbiosis and gene transfer in evolution, or: Why does Arabidopsis have thousands of genes from cyanobacteria, but the photosynthetic slug Elysia does not
    134. &
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, during 17:30-18:30
    Category: Special Session: History of Molecular Biology and Evolution
  134. Takahiro Maruki, Arizona State University, U.S.A.
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Workshop 4: Natural selection in human populations: beyond classic sweeps
    Title: Strength of purifying selection at a genomic position modulates the estimates of genetic differentiation between populations
  135. Yosef Maruvka, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 4: Theory
    Title: Population genetics of large samples
  136. Shigenori Maruyama, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
    Time: Saturday, July 30, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Symposium 15: Evolution of life: a multi-disciplinary approach, from universe to genomes
    Title: History of the earth and life; from galaxy to genome
  137. Tomotaka Matsumoto, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 3: Plant evolution
    Title: Evoluton of sphingophily: a case study of Hemerocallis species
  138. Hiroaki Matsunami, Duke University Medical Center, U.S.A.
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Symposium 8: Origin and diversification of sensory organs
    Title: The functional evolution of odorant receptor orthologs
  139. Brendan J. McConkey, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 1: Microbe evolution
    Title: Genomic signatures of host exploitation and molecular mimicry in bacterial pathogens
  140. Geoffrey I. McFadden, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 3: Plant evolution
    Title: Evolution of galactolipid synthesis in plants, algae & parasites
  141. Aoife McLysaght, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Symposium 2: Gene evolution and phenotypic adaptation
    Title: Novel protein-coding genes in mammalian genomes
  142. Julien Meunier, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Workshop 5: Evolutionary diversity revealed by comparative transcriptomics
    Title: Birth and functional evolution of mammalian microRNA genes
  143. Wynn K. Meyer, University of Chicago, Chicago, U.S.A.
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 7: Human evolution
    Title: Transmission distortion observed in human pedigrees
  144. Katsuhiko Mineta, Hokkaido University, Japan
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Symposium 8: Origin and diversification of sensory organs
    Title: Evolution of the mammalian auditory system-related genes
  145. Toru Miura, Hokkaido University, Japan
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Symposium 11: Molecular mechanisms governing morphological divergence of arthropod appendages
    Title: Endocrine Regulations of Appendage Development in Insect Polyphenisms: Case Studies in Termite Soldiers and Male Stag Beetles
  146. Ida Moltke, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 7: Human evolution
    Title: Using IBD inference to investigate the evolutionary history of two human mutations
  147. Antonia Monteiro, Yale University, New Haven, U.S.A.
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Symposium 11: Molecular mechanisms governing morphological divergence of arthropod appendages
    Title: Tracing the molecular evolution of a novel complex gene network: butterfly eyespots
  148. Nancy Moran, Yale University, New Haven, U.S.A.
    Time: Friday, July 29, 2011, 15:10-16:00
    Category: Plenary Talk 4
    Title: Back to Basics: Drastic genome reduction in symbiotic bacteria
  149. Etsuko N. Moriyama, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, U.S.A.
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 1: Microbe evolution
    Title: Evolution of the Kdo2-lipid A biosynthesis in bacteria
  150. Hideaki Moriyama, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, U.S.A.
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 2: Mammalian evolution
    Title: Structural mechanisms of hemoglobin in hypoxia adaptation
  151. Alan Moses, University of Toronto, Canada
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Symposium 9: Evolutionary systems biology
    Title: Evolution of post-translational regulatory networks
  152. Jeffrey P. Mower, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, U.S.A.
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 3: Plant evolution
    Title: Intron loss from plant mitochondrial genomes: is retroprocessing the mechanism?
  153. Ben Murrell, University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 4: Theory
    Title: Heterotachy revisited: Mixing Markov substitution processes to identify lineages under episodic diversifying selection
  154. Hiroshi Nagashima, Niigata University, Japan
    Time: Saturday, July 30, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Symposium 14: Current problems in vertebrate evolutionary development
    Title: Developmental bases for morphological diversity of amniote pectoral girdle
  155. So Nakagawa, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Workshop 8: Virus evolution
    Title: Dynamic evolution of endogenous retrovirus-derived genes for placentation: An RNA-seq study of trophoblast cell in Bos taurus
  156. Shigeki Nakagome, Kitasato University, Japan
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Workshop 4: Natural selection in human populations: beyond classic sweeps
    Title: Population specific distribution of Crohn’s disease risk alleles
  157. Nagayasu Nakanishi, Sars Centre for Marine Molecular Biology, Norway
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Symposium 8: Origin and diversification of sensory organs
    Title: Evolutonary origin of jellyfish sensory structures, the rhopalia
  158. Chris A. Nasrallah, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Symposium 3: Compensatory fitness interactions and genome evolution
    Title: Evaluation of phylogenetic substitution models via the population genetics of compensatory evolution in RNA
  159. Alexander Nater,University of Zurich, Switzerland
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Workshop 6: Assessing and visualizing the geographic and temporal structure of biodiversity
    Title: Sex-biased dispersal and volcanic activities shaped phylogeographic patterns of extant orangutans (genus: Pongo)
  160. Masatoshi Nei, Pennsylvania State University, State College, U.S.A.
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, 16:30-17:30
    Category: Special Symposium: Honoring late Walter M. Fitch
    Title: TBA
  161. Chen Siang Ng, Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Symposium 2: Gene evolution and phenotypic adaptation
    Title: The genetic basis of morphological traits and evolution in chickens
  162. Rasmus Nielsen, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Workshop 4: Natural selection in human populations: beyond classic sweeps
    Title: Discovering positive and negative selection in the human genome using new-generation sequencing data
  163. Masato Nikaido, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Workshop 13: Biodiversity – divergence and convergence in evolution
    Title: Positive selection and long standing polymorphism in east African cichlids
  164. Naruo Nikoh, the Open University of Japan, Japan
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Symposium 4: Symbiosis as the source of evolutionary novelties
    Title: Comparative genomics among the obligate gut symbionts of plataspid stinkbugs, Ishikawaella capsulata
  165. Tomoaki Nishiyama, Advanced Science Research Center, Kanazawa University, Japan
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Workshop 3: Plant evolutionary genomics
    Title: Land plant evolution learnt from moss and lycophyte genomes
  166. Mauris Nnamani, Yale University, West Haven, U.S.A.
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 2: Mammalian evolution
    Title: Identification of critical regulatory domains of HoxA-11
  167. Akiko O. Noda, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Workshop 5: Evolutionary diversity revealed by comparative transcriptomics
    Title: Peak periods of evolutionary emergence of tissue-specific genes
  168. Sumihare Noji, Department of Life systems, Japan
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Symposium 11: Molecular mechanisms governing morphological divergence of arthropod appendages
    Title: Molelcular mechanisms underlying determination of leg segment size and shape, insights from studies on cricket leg regeneration
  169. Magnus Nordborg, University of Southern California, U.S.A.
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Workshop 12: Recombination and the efficacy of selection
    Title: Does recombination explain the genomic pattern of polymorphism in Arabidopsis thaliana?
  170. John Novembre, University of California, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Symposium 1: Evolution of modern human
    Title: Recombination rates in admixed individuals revealed by ancestry-based inference
  171. Masafumi Nozawa, National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 3: Plant evolution
    Title: Origins and evolution of microRNA genes in plant species
  172. Howard Ochman, Yale University, New Haven, U.S.A.
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Symposium 5: Genome evolution: surprises from microbes
    Title: The evolution of microbial communities infecting humans and other great apes
  173. Kazuhiko Ohshima, Nagahama Institute of Bio-Science and Technology, Japan
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Workshop 2: Reverse transcriptase as an evolutionary force
    Title: Origin of the polyA connection: plant L1 Retrotransposons may have lost the specific recognition of RNA template for reverse transcription in parallel with mammalian L1s
  174. Tomoko Ohta, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Symposium 3: Compensatory fitness interactions and genome evolution
    Title: Introduction
    &
    Time: Saturday, July 30, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Symposium 13: Present and future of the neutral theory
    Title: Progress of the near-neutrality concept
  175. Colm O hUigin, National Cancer Institute, Saic-Frederick, U.S.A.
    Time: Saturday, July 30, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Symposium 13: Present and future of the neutral theory
    Title: Limits to molecular adaptation
  176. Kazunori Okada, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 6: Animal evolution
    Title: On the origin of the vertebrate pharyngeal arch; insight from expressions and functions of Pax1/9
  177. Norihiro Okada, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
    Time: Saturday, July 30, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Symposium 15: Evolution of life: a multi-disciplinary approach, from universe to genomes
    Title: Emergence of mammals by emergency
  178. Yudai Okuyama, National Museum of Nature and Science, Tsukuba, Japan
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 3: Plant evolution
    Title: Entangling Ancient Allotetraploidization of Asian Mitella (Saxifragaceae)
  179. Satoshi OOta, RIKEN Bioresource Center, Japan
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Symposium 10: Evolution of genome structure
    Title: An alternative framework for studying the isochore evolution: the temporal mutation rate model
  180. Ludovic Orlando, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Symposium 7: New approaches in ancient DNA
    Title: Ancient genomes in the next-next generation sequencing era
  181. Naoki Osada, National Institue of Genetics, Mishima, Japan
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Symposium 3: Compensatory fitness interactions and genome evolution
    Title: Compensatory evolution between mitochondrial and nuclear genomes: evidence from primate respiratory chain complex genes
  182. Athma Pai, University of Chicago, Chicago, U.S.A.
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Workshop 7: Comparative and evolutionary neurogenomics in humans and non-human primates
    Title: A comparative study of genetic and epigenetic regulatory mechanisms in primates
  183. Amit Pande, Institute Of Bioinformatics, University of Muenster, Germany
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Workshop 2: Reverse transcriptase as an evolutionary force
    Title: Regulatory landscaping of transposable elements during interlaced transcription
  184. Donovan H. Parks, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Workshop 6: Assessing and visualizing the geographic and temporal structure of biodiversity
    Title: GenGIS: A geospatial information system for genomic data
  185. Jacques Le Pendu, INSERM Univertsity of Nantes, Nantes, France
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Workshop 10: Molecular biology and evolution of blood group and MHC antigens in primates
    Title: Potential involvement of histo-blood group antigens (HBGAs) in host-Calicivirus co-evolution
  186. Benjamin Peter, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Workshop 4: Natural selection in human populations: beyond classic sweeps
    Title: A method to distinguish selection on standing variation from selection on a new mutation
  187. David Pollock, UC Colorado School of Medicine, U.S.A.
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Workshop 9: Modeling protein structural and energetic constraints on sequence evolution
    Title: Modeling structural context dependence and coevolution dependent mixture models
  188. John E. Pool, University of California, Davis, U.S.A.
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Workshop 14: Next generation sequencing technologies in evolutionary studies
    Title: Population genomics of sub-Saharan Drosophila melanogaster: African diversity and non-African admixture
  189. Ovidiu Popa, University of Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 1: Microbe evolution
    Title: Lateral gene transfer frequency decreases with donor-recipient divergence
  190. Aleksandar Popadić, Wayne State University, U.S.A.
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Symposium 11: Molecular mechanisms governing morphological divergence of arthropod appendages
    Title: Hox genes and evolution of insect thoracic appendages
  191. Nicholas H. Putnam, Rice University, Houston, U.S.A.
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 4: Theory
    Title: Selective constraints on the evolution of metazoan genome organization
  192. Wenfeng Qian, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, U.S.A.
    Time: Friday, July 29, 2011, during 16:30-18:30
    Category: Walter Fitch Student Symposium
    Title: Genome-wide quantification of antagonistic pleiotropy in yeast
  193. Sohini Ramachandran, Brown University, Providence, U.S.A.
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 4: Theory
    Title: Detecting gene flow with low-dimensional summaries of genotype data
  194. Josephine A. Reinhardt, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, U.S.A.
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Symposium 2: Gene evolution and phenotypic adaptation
    Title: Two extremely rapidly evolving genes function in association with the male germline
  195. Scott Rifkin, University of California, San Diego, U.S.A.
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Symposium 12: Evolution as a stochastic process
    Title: Stochastic gene expression and the genotype-phenotype map: experimental studies
  196. Hugh M. Robertson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A.
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Symposium 8: Origin and diversification of sensory organs
    Title: Evolution of the insect chemoreceptor superfamily
  197. Charles Robin, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 5: Drosophila evolution
    Title: The molecular evolution of DDT resistance in Drosophila melanogaster
  198. Rori Rohlfs, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, U.S.A.
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 7: Human evolution
    Title: A likelihood framework to model gene expression through a phylogeny
  199. Ulises Rosas, New York University, U.S.A.
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Workshop 5: Evolutionary diversity revealed by comparative transcriptomics
    Title: Genome-wide expression patterns of Arabidopsis thaliana in nature
  200. Nimrod D. Rubinstein, Tel Aviv University, NESCent, Durham, U.S.A.
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 4: Theory
    Title: Evolutionary models accounting for layers of selection in protein coding genesand their impact on the inference of positive selection
  201. Shigeru Saito, Okazaki Institute for Integrative Bioscience, Okazaki, Japan
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Symposium 8: Origin and diversification of sensory organs
    Title: Functional evolution of thermosensor TRPV3 channels: opposite temperature sensitivity between mammals and Western clawed frogs
  202. Naruya Saitou, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Workshop 10: Molecular biology and evolution of blood group and MHC antigens in primates
    Title: No distinction of orthology/paralogy among human and chimpanzee Rh blood group genes
  203. Hiroaki Sakai, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Japan
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Workshop 2: Reverse transcriptase as an evolutionary force
    Title: Retrogenes in rice (Oryza sativa L. ssp. japonica) are old, functional and exhibit correlated expression with their source genes
  204. Huerta-Sanchez, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Workshop 13: Biodiversity – divergence and convergence in evolution
    Title: Characterizing the genetic signature of high altitude adaptation in Tibetans
  205. Marcelo Sánchez, University of Zurich, Switzerland
    Time: Saturday, July 30, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Symposium 14: Current problems in vertebrate evolutionary development
    Title: The contributions of palaeontology to the study of development in a molecular world
  206. Sriram Sankararaman, Harvard Medical School, U.S.A.
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Symposium 7: New approaches in ancient DNA
    Title: Dating ancient admixture: the date of gene flow from Neandertals into modern humans
  207. Davide Sassera, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Symposium 4: Symbiosis as the source of evolutionary novelties
    Title: The genome of the intramitochondrial bacterium Midichloria and the origin of mitochondria
  208. Yoko Satta, Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Hayama, Japan
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Workshop 10: Molecular biology and evolution of blood group and MHC antigens in primates
    Title: PBR, peptides, and functional divergence in MHC
  209. Kyoichi Sawamura, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Symposium 6: Molecular evolution of speciation
    Title: Molecular drive and epigenetics in speciation
  210. Bernhard Schaefke, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 1: Microbe evolution
    Title: Inheritance patterns of mRNA levels and different selective constraints on trans- and cis-regulatory factors in yeast gene expression evolution
  211. Steve Schaffner, Broad Institute, U.S.A.
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Workshop 4: Natural selection in human populations: beyond classic sweeps
    Title: Characterizing recent positive selection in 1000 genomes data
  212. Kristan Schneider, University of Vienna, Austria
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Workshop 11: Selective sweeps in complex demographic and genetic systems
    Title: Selective sweeps in human malaria: Modeling genetic hitchhiking in P. falciparum
  213. Joshua Schraiber, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, U.S.A.
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 1: Microbe evolution
    Title: Detecting non-neutral evolution in transcriptome-wide gene expression measurements
  214. Christiane Schreiweis, Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Workshop 7: Comparative and evolutionary neurogenomics in humans and non-human primates
    Title: Altered learning in mice carrying the human version of Foxp2, a promising candidate gene for human language and speech evolution
  215. Ning-Yi Shao, Shanghai Institutes for Computational Biology, China
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Workshop 5: Evolutionary diversity revealed by comparative transcriptomics
    Title: Systematic survey of medium-length ncRNAs in mammalian brain cortex by deep sequencing
  216. Suhua Shi, State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol and Guangdong Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, Sun Yat-sen University, China
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Workshop 14: Next generation sequencing technologies in evolutionary studies
    Title: Two evolutionary histories in the genome of rice: the roles of domestication genes
  217. Yasuhiro Shiga, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Science, Japan
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Symposium 11: Molecular mechanisms governing morphological divergence of arthropod appendages
    Title: Co-option of a Conserved Gene Regulatory Module During the Evolution of Flat Outgrowths in Arthropods
  218. Takashi Shiina, Tokai University School of Medicine, Sagamihara, Japan
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Workshop 10: Molecular biology and evolution of blood group and MHC antigens in primates
    Title: Elucidation of genomic structure and diversity in cynomolgus macaque MHC region toward biomedical research
  219. Kentaro Shimizu, University of Zurich, Switzerland
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Symposium 6: Molecular bases of speciation
    Title: Transcriptomic study of polyploid speciation using Arabidopsis relatives
  220. Alfred Simkin, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, U.S.A.
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 5: Drosophila evolution
    Title: Patterns of recurrent and recent selective sweeps in piRNA pathway proteins in the host/transposon genomic conflict
  221. Bruno F. Simões, University College Dublin, Belfield, Ireland
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 2: Mammalian evolution
    Title: Opsin phylogenetics iluminates the evolution of colour vision in mammals
  222. Mehmet Somel, CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai, China
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 7: Human evolution
    Title: MicroRNA-driven ontogenetic patterns show accelerated evolution in the human brain
  223. Tomoko Y. Steen, Johns Hopkins University, North Bethesda, U.S.A.
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 5: Drosophila evolution
    Title: ABCC, CDPG, Neutral Theories: Japanese Profiles in Molecular Evolution
  224. Mark Stoneking, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leibzig, Germany
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Symposium 1: Evolution of modern human
    Title: Insights into human migration from admixture signals from ancient genomes
  225. Kenta Sumiyama, National Institute of Genetics, Japan
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 2: Mammalian evolution
    Title: Theria-specific evolution in both coding and noncoding region of the Dlx4 gene
  226. W. Sung, University of New Hampshire, U.S.A.
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Symposium 5: Genome evolution: surprises from microbes
    Title: Extraordinary genome stability In the ciliate Paramecium tetraurelia
  227. Ikuo Suzuki, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Symposium 8: Origin and diversification of sensory organs
    Title: Generation program of neocortical layer-specific neurons predates mammalian emergence
  228. Rumiko Suzuki, Oita University, Japan
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Symposium 5: Genome evolution: surprises from microbes
    Title: Prediction of human migration by Helicobacter pylori
  229. Aya Takahashi, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Symposium 6: Molecular evolution of speciation
    Title: Association between color and behavior in Drosophila
  230. Mahoko Takahashi, Departments of Pathology and Genetics, Stanford, U.S.A.
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 2: Mammalian evolution
    Title: Identification and characterization of lineage-specific highly conserved noncoding sequences in mammalian genomes
  231. Junichi Takeda, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Workshop 5: Evolutionary diversity revealed by comparative transcriptomics
    Title: Comparative analyses of alternative splicing variants between humans and mice by using full-length cDNAs
  232. Kazutaka Takeshita, Hokkaido University, Japan
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Workshop 2: Reverse transcriptase as an evolutionary force
    Title: Comparative genomics of retrogenes in green algae
  233. Nobuto Takeuchi,NIH/NLM/NCBI, USA
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 1: Microbe evolution
    Title: On the origin of DNA genomes: evolution of the division of labor between template and catalyst in model replicator systems
  234. Naoko Takezaki, Kagawa University, Kitagun, Japan
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 7: Human evolution
    Title: Evolution of microsatellite DNA in human and chimpanzee genomes
  235. Shohei Takuno, University of California, Irvine, U.S.A.
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 3: Plant evolution
    Title: Body-methylated genes in Arabidopsis thaliana tend to be essential and evolve slowly
  236. Koichiro Tamura, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Workshop 1: Methods for multiple alignment and phylogenetic tree making for large sequence data set
    Title: Heterotachy in real world: lessons from Drosophila genomes
  237. Asif U. Tamuri, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, U.K.
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Workshop 8: Virus evolution
    Title: Site-wise mutation-selection models to estimate the distribution of selection coefficients from phylogenetic data
  238. Hideyuki Tanabe, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (Sokendai), Hayama, Japan
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Symposium 10: Evolution of genome structure
    Title: Role of spatial positioning of chromosome territories in the genome evolution
  239. Mikiko Tanaka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
    Time: Saturday, July 30, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Symposium 14: Current problems in vertebrate evolutionary development
    Title: Evolution of vertebrate paired appendages
  240. Kun Tang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 7: Human evolution
    Title: Genetic basis of facial morphological diversity: A genetic association study based on high-density 3D facial images
  241. Emma C. Teeling, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 2: Mammalian evolution
    Title: Environmental niche specialisation and the evolution of the olfactory subgenome in mammals
  242. Maud Tenaillon, CNRS, France
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Workshop 3: Plant evolutionary genomics
    Title: Whole genome sequencing to evaluate the contribution of transposable elements to the evolution of genome size in Zea
  243. Olivier Tenaillon, University of California Irvine, U.S.A.
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Workshop 9: Modeling protein structural and energetic constraints on sequence evolution
    Title: The molecular diversity of adaptive convergence to high temperature in 115 Escherichia coli populations
  244. Yohei Terai, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Workshop 6: Assessing and visualizing the geographic and temporal structure of biodiversity
    Title: Speciation of deep-water cichlids in the limited light environment in Lake Victoria
  245. Takashi Tsuchimatsu, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 3: Plant evolution
    Title: On the nature of mutations for the recurrent evolution of self-compatibility: multiple examples from Brassicaceae
  246. Abraham E. Tucker, Indiana University, Bloomington, U.S.A.
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 6: Animal evolution
    Title: Genome-wide comparison of sexual vs. asexual populations of Daphnia pulex reveals loci underpinning the evolution of obligate asexuality
  247. Ikuo Uchiyama, National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 4: Theory
    Title: A rapid procedure for large-scale ortholog assginment and its application to metagenomic data
  248. Y. Ujiie, Kochi University, Kochi, Japan
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Workshop 6: Assessing and visualizing the geographic and temporal structure of biodiversity
    Title: Longitudinal differentiation of pelagic plankton unveiled by phylogeography
  249. Marcy Uyenoyama, Duke University, Durham, U.S.A.
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Symposium 6: Molecular bases of speciation
    Title: Barriers to neutral introgression generated by local adaptation and sex-specific hybrid incompatibility
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    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, during 17:30-18:30
    Category: Special Session: History of Molecular Biology and Evolution
  250. Klara L. Verbyla, Australian National University, Isabella Plains, Australia
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 4: Theory
    Title: The embedding problem for Markov models of nucleotide substitution
  251. Beatriz Vicoso, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Workshop 14: Next generation sequencing technologies in evolutionary studies
    Title: Using whole-genome sequencing to reveal the history of the dot chromosome in Drosophilids
  252. Graham Wallis, University of Otago, New Zealand
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Workshop 6: Assessing and visualizing the geographic and temporal structure of biodiversity
    Title: Extreme positive selection on a ZP-domain glycoprotein in larval galaxiid fishes
  253. Wen Wang, Kunming Institute of Zoology Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Symposium 2: Gene evolution and phenotypic adaptation
    Title: Functional and phenotypic effects of newly orginated genes
  254. Teruaki Watabe, Kochi University, Kochi, Japan
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Workshop 9: Modeling protein structural and energetic constraints on sequence evolution
    Title: Structural considerations in the fitness landscape of a virus
  255. Yutaka Watanabe, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Kunigami, Japan
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 1: Microbe evolution
    Title: Sequence conservation and gene-conversion; insights into highly conserved elements in mating-type loci in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
  256. Marta L. Wayne, University of Florida, U.S.A.
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Workshop 8: Virus evolution
    Title: Molecular basis of evolution of virulence in sigma virus in Drosophila
  257. Joel Wertheim, University of California, San Diego, U.S.A.
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Workshop 8: Virus evolution
    Title: Purifying selection can obscure the ancient age of viral lineages
  258. R. W. Wiseman, University of Wisconsin - Madison, U.S.A.
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Workshop 10: Molecular biology and evolution of blood group and MHC antigens in primates
    Title: High-throughput pyrosequencing for MHC characterization in diverse nonhuman primates
  259. Ken Wolfe, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
    Time: Friday, July 29, 2011, 9:45-10:45
    Category: Nei Lecture (given by SMBE President)
    Title: Yeast genome evolution and the aftermath of polyploidization
  260. Chung-I Wu, University of Chicago, Chicago, U.S.A.
    Time: Friday, July 29, 2011, 19:00-21:00
    Category: Special Lecture at Banquet Time
    Title: Evolution of cells in multi-cellular organisms and the genomics of cancers
  261. Yannick Wurm, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Symposium 2: Gene evolution and phenotypic adaptation
    Title: The genomic region responsible for fire ant social structure
  262. Masato Yamamichi, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Hayama, Japan
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 4: Theory
    Title: Single-gene speciation revisited: allele dominance and pleiotropy
  263. Yumi Yamaguchi-Kabata, RIKEN Center for Genomic Medicine, Yokohama, Japan
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Symposium 1: Evolution of modern human
    Title: Dual genetic structure of the Japanese population based on autosomal SNPs and haplotypes
  264. Tetsuo Yamamori, National Institute of Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Workshop 7: Comparative and evolutionary neurogenomics in humans and non-human primates
    Title: Selective gene expresion in regions of primate neocortex: implication for cortical specialization
  265. Ching-chia Yang, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, the University of Tokyo, Tsukuba, Japan
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 3: Plant evolution
    Title: Independent domestication of Asian rice cultivars and their ancient hybridization
  266. Ken Daigoro Yokoyama, University of Colorado, Englewood, United States Virgin Islands
    Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 2: Mammalian evolution
    Title: Co-evolving SP proteins and DNA binding sites functionally converge in birds and placental mammals
  267. Shozo Yokoyama, Emory University, U.S.A.
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Symposium 8: Origin and diversification of sensory organs
    Title: Mutagenesis, statistics, and adaptive evolution
  268. Tetsuya Yomo, Osaka University, Japan
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Symposium 12: Evolution as a stochastic process
    Title: How does phenotypic fluctuation affect adaptation and evolution?
  269. Kohta Yoshida, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 6: Animal evolution
    Title: B chromosomes have gained a function in sex determination in Lake Victoria cichlids
  270. Masa-aki Yoshida, Ochanomizu University, Japan
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Workshop 14: Next generation sequencing technologies in evolutionary studies
    Title: Genome structure analysis of molluscs revealed large-scale genome duplication and lineage specific repeat variation
  271. Zhu Yuan, Stanford University, Menlo Park, U.S.A.
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, afternoon session (13:30-16:00)
    Category: Contributed Oral Presentation 5: Drosophila evolution
    Title: Empirical validation of SNP frequency estimation by pooled resequencing
  272. Jianzhi George Zhang, University of Michigan, U.S.A.
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, morning session (9:30-12:00)
    Category: Symposium 9: Evolutionary systems biology
    Title: Gene expression noise and evolution
  273. Shuyi Zhang, East China Normal University, China
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Workshop 13: Biodiversity – divergence and convergence in evolution
    Title: Convergent sequence evolution between echolocating bats and dolphins (tentative title)
  274. Bojian Zhong, Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, New Zealand
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Workshop 13: Biodiversity – divergence and convergence in evolution
    Title: Beyond reasonable doubt: Proof of evolution from DNA sequences
  275. Yang Zhong, Institute of Biodiversity Science and Geobiology, Tibet University, Lhasa, China & School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
    Time: Thursday, July 28, 2011, evening session (16:30-19:00)
    Category: Workshop 13: Biodiversity – divergence and convergence in evolution
    Title: Horizontal gene transfer from aphids to their host plants