Symposium 1

Tuesday August 21

There might be minor changes in the program.
Location: Ekonomikum 3

  Evolutionary genetics of coloration
  Organizers: Nick Mundy, University of Cambridge, UK
Patricia Beldade, Leiden University, The Netherlands
     
  9.45-10.15 Nicolas Gompel (invited)
Repeated morphological evolution by cis-regulatory changes
  10.15-10.45 David Parichy (invited)
Evolutionary genetics of zebrafish pigment pattern development
  10.45-11.05 Hopi Hoekstra
The production of adaptive colour pattern by interacting genes
  11.05-11.35 Coffee
  11.35-11.55 Jake Gratten
Cryptic selection on coat colour in Soay sheep
  11.55-12.15 Walter Salzburger
The (adaptive) evolution of colour genes in cichlid fishes
  12.15-12.35 Arielle Cooley
Genetic analysis of floral colour patterning in Chilean Mimulus
  12.35-14.00 Lunch
  14.00-14.20 Patricia Wittkopp
Genetic basis of pigmentation differences within and between Drosophila species
  14.20-14.40 Terry Burke
Convergent evolution of plumage polymorphisms in domestic birds: the lavender phenotype
  14.40-15.00 Pieternella Luttikhuizen
Shell colour polymorphism: using the locus comparison approach to test for balancing selection in the Baltic tellin
  15.00-15.20 Jenny Boughman
Selective mechanisms and genetics of color divergence in threespine sticklebacks
  15.20-16.00 Coffee

 

 

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