Program

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Monday August 20 Tuesday August 21 Wednesday August 22 Thursday August 23 Friday August 24 Saturday August 25
7.30   Registration
(Uppsala University main building)
       
8.15 Welcome        
8.30-9.30 Plenary 1:
Sean B Carroll, University of Wisconsin, USA:
"Endless flies most beautiful: The role of cis-regulatory DNA sequences in the origin of morphological novelty and diversity"
Plenary 2 :
Douglas Schemske, Michigan State University, USA:
"Evolution in the tropics: Dobzhansky revisited"
Plenary 3:
Michael Majerus, Cambridge, UK:
"The Peppered moth: the proof of Darwinian evolution"
Plenary 4:
Sarah P. Otto, UBC, Canada:
"The evolutionary enigma of sex"
Plenary 5:
Scott Edwards, Harvard, USA:
"Navigating the forest of gene trees, from phylogeography to phylogenomics"
9.45 Parallel symposia 1,3, 9, 13, 25 Parallel symposia
2, 4, 23, 24, 28
Parallel symposia
6, 7, 15, 19, 29
Parallel symposia
8, 14, 26, 27, 30
Parallel symposia
5, 16, 17, 18, 20
11.05 Coffee Coffee Coffee Coffee Coffee
11.35 Parallel symposia
1, 3, 9, 13, 25
Parallel symposia
2, 4, 23, 24, 28
Parallel symposia
6, 7, 15, 19, 29
Parallel symposia
8, 14, 26, 27, 30
Parallel symposia
5, 16, 17, 18, 20
12.35 Lunch Lunch Lunch
12.55 Lunch Lunch
14.00 Parallel symposia
1, 3, 9, 13, 25
Parallel symposia
2, 4, 23, 24, 28
Excursions Parallel symposia
8, 14, 26, 27, 30
Parallel symposia
10, 11, 12, 21, 22
14.30 Registration in Uppsala University main building
(14.00-20.00)
15.20 Coffee Coffee Coffee
15.30 Coffee
15.50 Parallel symposia (until 17.10)
10, 11, 12, 21, 22
16.00 Poster session 1
(Symposium 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 13, 15, 19, 23, 24, 25, 28, 29)
Parallel symposia
2, 4, 23, 24, 28
Poster session 2 (Symposium 5, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 26, 27, 30)
17.00
18.00 Welcome reception in the Botanical garden(18.00-20.00 ) S. Stearns, Yale University, USA: How ESEB was founded and how it grew  
18.30 John Maynard Smith Prize Lecture Presidential address: Isabelle Olivierí, Montpellier, France Banquet
(at 19.00)
19.30      
20-24 Pub (19-24) Pub Pub Pub Pub

Symposium 1 Evolutionary genetics of coloration
Symposium 2 Conservation genetics: genetic deterioration and adaptation to changing environments
Symposium 3 Behavioural EvoDevo
Symposium 4 “Plant eco-devo”: ecology and genetics of life history timing in plants
Symposium 5 The population consequences of adaptive processes
Symposium 6 The role of natural enemies in diversification
Symposium 7 Game theory in an ecological context
Symposium 8 Integrating ecology and evolution: a synthesis
Symposium 9 Evolution of diversity in heterogenous environments 
Symposium 10 Evolution of sex chromosomes
Symposium 11 Gender perspective in evolutionary biology
Symposium 12 Association mapping in evolutionary biology: emerging concepts and insights from model species
Symposium 13 Evolutionary epidemiology and its implications for disease control
Symposium 14 Host-parasite evolution: consequences of parasite communities and host species assemblages
Symposium 15 Social evolution in microbes and parasites
Symposium 16 Cytonuclear coevolution and the evolution of hybrid zones
Symposium 17 Why MHC makes the difference – its role in various fields
Symposium 18 The origins and spread of agriculture: an evolutionary perspective
Symposium 19 Plastic and evolutionary responses to temperature
Symposium 20 Mating competition and sex-role dynamics
Symposium 21 Floral Evolution: mechanisms behind shifts in pollination strategies
Symposium 22 Process and implications of phenotype-dependent dispersal and settlement
Symposium 23 Gene mapping in natural populations
Symposium 24 Sexual selection: testing the alternatives 25 years later
Symposium 25 Evolution of unusual gene organisation: an exception or rule?
Symposium 26 Ageing and senescence in wild animal populations
Symposium 27 Evolutionary histories beyond organelle DNA
Symposium 28 Ecological and evolutionary immunology
Symposium 29 The paradox of mixed mating in plants
Symposium 30 When is a hierarchical model not appropriate in plant systematics

Last updated 2007.08.20
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