SMBE Satellite meeting SMBEBA 2015
Investigating biological adaptation with NGS: data and models

Conference center 'Hameau de l'étoile' (France), May 26-29, 2015 







SMBEBA 2015: FINAL PROGRAM






  TUESDAY 26 MAY 2015      
  19h30 20:30 DINNER
  20:30 22:00 POSTER SESSION 1






MOLECULAR FOOTPRINTS OF BIOLOGICAL ADAPTATION 1 WEDNESDAY 27 MAY 2015      
09:00 09:45 Joachim HERMISSON Adaptive footprints in large populations: what a soft sweep is - and what it is not.
09:45 10:30 Nicolas BIERNE How widespread is the footprint of selection on genome variation? The history matters.
10:30 11:00 BREAK
11:00 11:20 Emilia HUERTA-
SANCHEZ
In search of genetic gifts from archaic humans.
11:20 11:40 Michael FONTAINE A phylogenomic portrait of radiation and introgression in the Anopheles gambiae species complex.
11:40 12:00 Nicolas GALTIER Adaptive protein evolution in animals and the effective population size hypothesis.

12:00 14:00 LUNCH
MOLECULAR FOOTPRINTS OF BIOLOGICAL ADAPTATION 2 14:00 14:45 Pleuni PENNINGS Less efficient drugs lead to softer sweeps in HIV-1.
14:45 15:30 John NOVEMBRE Prospects for ancient DNA in the study of selection on polygenic traits.
15:30 16:00 BREAK
16:00 16:20 Josefa GONZALEZ What transposable elements tell us about adaptive evolution.
16:20 16:40 Patrick PHILLIPS Genomic analysis of the pleiotropic networks underlying the experimental evolution of increased stress resistance in the nematode Caenorhabditis remanei.
16:40 17:00 Santiago GONZALEZ-MARTINEZ Local adaptation during long-range colonisation in dioecious Mercurialis annua.

17:00 19:30 FREE TIME

19h30 20:30 DINNER

20:30 22:00 POSTER SESSION 2






ECOLOGICAL SPECIATION: THEORY MEETS DATA THURSDAY 28 MAY 2015      
09:00 09:45 Patrick NOSIL Mechanisms shaping genomic diversity in a stick-insect radiation.
09:45 10:30 Samuel FLAXMAN Patterns of differentiation at neutral loci during divergence with gene flow.
10:30 11:00 BREAK
11:00 11:20 Doro LINDTKE Genetic incompatibilities, gene flow, and the maintenance of species differences in hybrid zones?
11:20 11:40 Andreas KAUTT Heterogeneous genomic differentiation during sympatric ecological speciation in Midas cichlid fishes?
11:40 12:00 Mathieu JORON Evolution of differentiated alleles at a polymorphic supergene.

12:00 14:00 LUNCH
LOCAL ADAPTATION IN PLANTS 14:00 14:45 Jeff ROSS-
IBARRA
Selection and demography of maize domestication.
14:45 15:30 Tanja SLOTTE Genomic and regulatory consequences of recent plant speciation.
15:30 16:00 BREAK
16:00 16:20 Anja HOERGER Trade-offs in immunity in the metal hyperaccumulator Noccaea caerulescens.
16:20 16:40 Loretta JOHNSON Genetic differentiation, transcriptome variation, and local adaptation of dominant prairie grass Andropogon gerardii along the precipitation gradient of the US Midwest: Implications for climate change.
16:40 17:00 Christian RELLSTAB Local adaptation remains local — Environmental associations of climate-related candidate SNPs in Arabidopsis halleri using an enlarged and independent population set. .

17:00 17:30 BREAK
  17:30 18:15 Lluis QUINTANA-
MURCI
Evaluating human genetic and epigenetic adaption to pathogen pressures. 

18:15 20:00 FREE TIME

20:00 21:00 DINNER




  FRIDAY 29 MAY 2015      
STATISTICAL INFERENCE OF SELECTION FROM GENETIC POLYMORPHISMS 08:30 09:15 Olivier FRANCOIS Control of the false discovery rate in genome scans for selection.
09:15 10:00 Oscar GAGGIOTTI Making inferences about local adaptation using Fst-based genome scans.
10:00 10:30 BREAK
10:30 10:50 Lauren ALPERT A novel probabilistically interpretable method for identifying targets of selective sweeps.
10:50 11:10 Daniel WEGMANN A fast and accurate approximation of the Wright-Fisher Process and its application to time series data.
11:10 11:30 Bertrand SERVIN Multipoint approaches for the detection of selection signatures, application to a large scale resequencing dataset.
11:30 11:50 Frédéric AUSTERLITZ Inferring positive selection events on specific alleles and their starting time.

12:00 13:00 LUNCH