Symposium 25

Tuesday August 21

There might be minor changes in the program.
Location: Ekonomikum 1

  Evolution of unusual gene organisation: an exception or rule?
  Organizers: Kateryna Makova, Penn State University, USA
Anton Nekrutenko, Penn State University, USA
     
  9.45-10.15 Wen-Hsiung Li (invited)
Overlapping genes in the human, chimpanzee, and mouse genomes
  10.15-10.45 Laurent Duret (invited)
The origin of an RNA gene: since when does Xist eXist?
  10.45-11.05 Hans Ellegren
Faced with inequality: Chicken does not have a general dosage compensation of sex-linked genes
  11.05-11.35 Coffee
  11.35-11.55 Anton Nekrutenko
Overlapping coding regions in eukaryotic genomes
  11.55-12.15 Emmanuelle Porcher
Evidence of large heritable variation for quantitative traits following genome-wide alterations of DNA methylation in Arabidopsis thaliana
  12.15-12.35 Martin Lercher
Sense-antisense gene pairs: conservation of expression patterns
  12.35-14.00 Lunch
  14.00-14.20 Julien Roux
Bias in retention of duplicate genes from a whole-genome duplication gives insights into evolution of development in vertebrates
  14.20-14.40 Andrew Heidel
Mitochondrial genome evolution in the social amoebae
  14.40-15.00 Olga Novikova
Distribution and evolution of non-LTR retrotransposons in fungi
  15.00-15.20 Philippe Gayral
Integrations of banana streak virus sequences in the genome of the banana Musa balbisiana - Endogenous viruses or host genes?
  15.20-16.00 Coffee

 

 

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