Symposia and Minisymposia

EcoEvoDevo – Symbiosis and Epigenetic Inheritance
Organizers: Scott F. Gilbert, Yoav Soen 
Speakers:
Scott Gilbert (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Catherine Masson (INRA,CNRS, France)
Oded Rechavi (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Yoav Soen (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)

Developmental basis of quantitative variation 

Organizers: Mihaela Pavlicev, Günter Wagner 
Speakers:
im Cheverud (Loyola University, Chicago, USA)
Arne Gjuvsland (Centre for Integrative Genetics, Cigene, Norway)
Frederic Guillaume (University of Zürich, Switzerland)
Günter P. Wagner (Yale University , USA)

How does developmental robustness facilitate the evolution of biodiversity? 

Organizers: Rainer Melzer, Günter Theißen 

 
Speakers:
Matthew Wills (University of Bath, UK)
Thomas Hansen (University of Oslo, Norway)
Michalis Barkoulas (Imperial College London, UK)
Angela Hay (Max Planck Institute, Cologne, Germany)

Quantitative EvoDevo in model and non-model organisms
 
Organizers: Benedikt Hallgrimsson, Chris Klingenberg, Philipp Mitteroecker 
, Ruth Flatscher
Speakers:
Benedikt Hallgrimsson (University of Calgary, Canada)
Anjali Goswami (University College London, UK)
Jiří Neustupa (Charles University Prague, Czech Republic)
Philipp Mitteröcker & Christine Mayer (University of Vienna, Austria)
Jukka Jernvall (University of Helsinki, Finland)
José María Gómez (University of Granada)
Scott Armbruster (University of Portsmouth, UK)
Christian Klingenberg (University of Manchester, UK)

EvoDevo of cranial neural crest populations across developmental systems 

Organizer: Georgy Koentges 
Speakers:
Johann Eberhart (Univ. Austin, Texas, USA)
Joshua Gross (Harvard Univ., Univ. of Cincinnati, USA)
Sophie Creuzet (CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France)
Georgy Koentges (University of Warwick, UK)

Less is more: loss of gene functions as a driving force of developmental evolution
 

Organizers: Ingo Braasch, Cristian Cañestro
Speakers:
Peter Holland (University of Oxford, UK)
John Postlethwait (University of Oregon, USA)
Shigehiro Kuraku (RIKEN CDB, Japan)
Michael Hiller (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany)

«Living fossils», myth or reality?
 
Organizers: Patrick Laurenti, Didier Casane 
Speakers:

Patrick Laurenti (CNRS and Université Paris-Diderot, France)
Hugo Dutel (RIKEN, Japan and Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France)
Gilles Cuny (Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle and University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Shigeru Kuratani (RIKEN and University of Kobe, Japan)

Evo-devo of colour
Organizers: Beverley Glover 

 
Speakers:
Edwige Moyroud (University of Cambridge, UK)
Hester Sheehan (University of Bern, Switzerland)
Talline Martins (Duke University, USA)
Benjamin Prud'homme (CNRS and Institut de Biologie du Développement, Marseille, France)

‘NEPTUNE’ ITN: the evolution of sensory systems in the marine environment

Organizers: Maria Ina Arnone, Andreas Hejnol 


Speakers:
Zbynek Kozmik (Institute of Molecular Genetics, Prague, Czech Republic)
Gáspár Jékely (Max Plank Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany)
Yale Passamaneck (University of Hawaii, USA)
Kevin Pang (University of Bergen, Norway)

Origin and diversification of regeneration
 
Organizer: Florian Raible 
Speakers: 
Brigitte Galliot (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Jochen Rink (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany)
Nipam Patel (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Jeremy Brockes (University College London, UK)

Towards an Extended Evolutionary Synthesis
 
Organizers: Gerd Müller, Werner Callebaut 
Speakers:
Kevin Laland (University of St. Andrews, UK)
Eörs Szathmáry (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary)
Etienne Danchin (INRA, CNRS, France)
Werner Callebaut (University of Vienna)

Quo vadis EvoDevo?
 
Organizers: Manfred D. Laubichler, Cassandra Extavour 
Speakers:
Cassandra Extavour (Harvard University, USA)
Johannes Jaeger (Centre de Regulacio Genomica, Barcelona, Spain)
Manfred Laubichler (Arizona State University, USA)
Discussion led by Ronald Jenner (NHM London, UK)

Mechanical Mechanisms of Development
Organizers: Annemiek Cornelissen, Naomi Nakayama 


Speakers:
Malcolm Bennett (Univ. of Nottingham, UK)
Thomas Greb (Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Vienna, Austria)
Carl-Philipp Heisenberg (Institute of Science and Technology, Austria)
Vincent Fleury (Laboratory of Complex Matter and Systems, Paris, France)
Olivier Hamant (Laboratoire de Reproduction et Développement des Plantes, ENS LyonFrance)
Pierre-Francois Lenne (Developmental Biology Institute of Marseille, France)
Stéphane Douady (Laboratory of Complex Matter and Systems, Paris, France)
Derek Moulton (University of Oxford, UK)

What should bioinformatics do for EvoDevo?
 
 

Organizers: Paula Mabee, Mark Blaxter, Ann Burke,Günter Plickert 

Speakers:
Paula Mabee (University of South Dakota, USA)
Sujai Kumar (University of Oxford, UK)
Philipp Schiffer (University of Cologne, Germany)
Christopher Kraus (University of Cologne, Germany)
Chelsey Specht (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Philip Donoghue (University of Bristol, UK)
Karen Sears (University of Illinois, USA)
Megan Wilson (University of Otago, New Zealand)

EvoDevo of symmetry in animals and plants
 
Organizers: Sophie Nadot, Catherine Damerval 

 
Speakers:
Vincent Debat (Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France)
Stéphane Noselli (Institut de Biologie Valrose, INSERM, Nice, France)
Sabine Zachgo (University of Osnabrück, Germany)
Florian Jabbour (Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France)

Structural organization in vertebrate dentitions: molecules, morphology and function
 
Organizers: Moya Smith
Speakers:
Zerina Johanson (Natural History Museum, London, UK)
Elodie Renvoise (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Marcela Buchtova (University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical sciences, Brno, Czech Republic)
Xavier Jordana ( Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP), Barcelona, Spain)

Evo Devo as an approach to understanding communication: Modeling, genetics, and developmental research in vocal communication and its neurological underpinnings  
Organizers: Ulrike Griebel, D. Kimbrough Oller 
Speakers:
Dan Dediu (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistic Research, Nijmegen, the Netherlands)
Sonja Vernes (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistic Research, Nijmegen, the Netherlands)
Anne S. Warlaumont (University of California, Merced, USA)
Kimbrough Oller (the University of Memphis, USA) and Ulrike Griebel (the University of Memphis, USA)