Symposium 27

Friday August 24

There might be minor changes in the program.
Location: University main building, Room X

  Evolutionary histories beyond organelle DNA
  Organizers: Gerald Heckel, University of Bern, Switzerland
Maarit Jaarola, University of Lund, Sweden
     
  9.45-10.15 Rémy Petit (invited)
Reconstructing plant evolutionary histories: what are organelle genes good at?
  10.15-10.30 Johan Lindell
Gene flow across a narrow and highly divergent mtDNA contact zone in the sideblotched lizard (Uta stansburiana) of Baja California, Mexico
  10.30-10.45 Martin Fischer
A genomic approach to the complex evolutionary relationships in the genus Microtus
  10.45-11.05 Tor Carlsen
Combining AFLPs, SSRs, and plastid and nuclear sequences in phylogeography and systematics
  11.05-11.35 Coffee
  11.35-11.55 Maxim Kapralov
Positive selection facilitates interspecific gene transfer in Hawaiian endemic Schiedea
  11.55-12.15 Graham Muir
A selective sweep in the chloroplast DNA of dioecious Silene (section Elisanthe)
  12.15-12.35 Stéphane Hemmerter
A curious coincidence: mosquito biodiversity and the limits of the Japanese encephalitis virus in Australasia
  12.35-14.00 Lunch
  14.00-14.20 Zuzana Musilova
Incomplete lineage sorting or hybridisation? Multilocus phylogeny and coalescent simulation suggest introgressive hybridisation in asexual complex of European loaches
  14.20-14.40 Nabholz Benoit
Determinism of mitochondrial genetic diversity in birds and mammals
  14.40-15.00 Patricia Brito
Speciation history of white-eyes (Zosterops griseotinctus) complex in the Solomon archipelago: contrast between anonymous nuclear loci and mtDNA
  15.00-15.20 Pierre-André Crochet
When mtDNA is not enough: conflicts among markers reveal misleading mtDNA histories
  15.20-16.00 Coffee

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