Groningen congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology – August 20th–25th

European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) Congresses

The biennial ESEB congress is one of the largest conferences in evolutionary biology with about 1400 – 1700 participants. The congress usually takes place in August in Europe. The next congress will be held in Groningen, The Netherlands from August 20 – 25, 2017 organized by Leo W. Beukeboom (chairmen of the organisation team).

PI of the CRC 1182 Hinrich Schulenburg will hold a workshop and be present at a stand at this year’s Groningen congress of the ESEB, where he will represent the CRC 1182.

Keynote Speaker

Linda Partridge – Evolutionary biology and healthy ageing
Svante Pääbo – Neandertal Perspective on the Human Genome
Steve Stearns – The relations between evolution and medicine, journals and societies
Nicole Dubilier (PI of the CRC 1182) – Diversity matters: Horizontal gene transfer and symbiont strain heterogeneity provide multiple benefits to deep-sea mussels from hydrothermal vents
Andreas Wagner – The power of recombination to create new adaptations and innovations (tentative)
Renée Duckworth – Individual variation, ecological dynamics and evolutionary feedbacks
Chris Jiggings – From jungles to genomes: Insights into adaptation and speciation from brightly coloured Heliconius butterflies.
Nina Wedell – Evolution in the 21st Century

 

Scientific Programme

Sunday, 20 August 2017

17:30-18:00 Opening session
Chair(s): Beukeboom, Leo (Groningen, Netherlands)

18:00-19:00 Keynote lecture Linda Partridge
Chair(s): Verhulst, Simon (Groningen, Netherlands)

 

Monday, 21 August 2017

09:00-09:50 Keynote lecture Svante Pääbo
Chair(s): Bender, Nicole (Zurich, Switzerland)

10:00-16:40 Symposium 5: Evolutionary biology of ageing: integrating function and mechanism
Chair(s): Verhulst, Simon (Groningen, Netherlands)

10:00-16:40 Symposium 22: Coevolution of hosts and their microbiome
Chair(s): Heeb, Philipp (Toulouse, France)

10:00-13:10 Symposium 1: Parasite evolution in response to treatment
Chair(s): Lion, Sébastien (Montpellier, France)

10:00-13:10 Symposium 4: Evolution of immune diversity
Chair(s): Norman, Paul (Stanford, United States of America)

10:00-16:40 Symposium 11: Evolution of communication signals
Chair(s): Halfwerk, Wouter (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

10:00-16:40 Symposium 17: Evolutionary causes and consequences of variation in recombination rate
Chair(s): Santure, Anna (Auckland, New Zealand)

10:00-16:40 Symposium 23: Rapid evolution revisited
Chair(s): Gordon, Swanne (Jyväsklyä, Finland)

10:00-16:40 Symposium 30: Phylogenetics in the genomic era
Chair(s): Blom, Mozes (Stockholm, Sweden)

14:30-16:40 Symposium 2: The spread and evolution of ancient infectious diseases
Chair(s): Rühli, Frank (Zurich, Switzerland)

14:30-16:40 Symposium 14: Fitness landscapes, big data and the predictability of evolution
Chair(s): Matuszewski, Sebastian (Lausanne, Switzerland)

16:40-17:25 Keynote lecture Stephen Stearns Closure ISEMPH 2017
Chair(s): Boomsma, Jacobus (Copenhagen, Denmark)

 

Tuesday, 22 August 2017

09:00-09:50 Keynote lecture Nicole Dubilier
Chair(s): Wertheim, Bregje (Groningen, Netherlands)

10:00-17:20 Symposium 16: Genomics of adaptation
Chair(s): Blackman, Benjamin (Berkeley, United States of America) ; Pannebakker, Bart (Wageningen, Netherlands)

10:00-17:20 Symposium 24: Eco-evolutionary dynamics
Chair(s): Brunner, Franziska (Liverpool, United Kingdom) ; Eizaguirre, Christophe (London, United Kingdom)

10:00-17:20 Symposium 15: Experimental evolution in complex environments
Chair(s): Kovacs, Akos (Jena, Germany)

10:00-17:20 Symposium 12: Environmental effects on sexual selection
Chair(s): Heubel, Katja (Rees, Germany) ; Martinez Padilla, Jesus (Groningen, Netherlands)

10:00-17:20 Symposium 19: Evolution of gene expression regulation
Chair(s): Carja, Oana (Philadelphia, United States of America)

10:00-17:20 Symposium 8: Major transitions in evolution
Chair(s): Kost, Christian (Osnabrück, Germany) ; Meusemann, Karen (Freiburg, Germany)

10:00-17:20 Symposium 13: Modern quantitative genetics and the study of adaptation
Chair(s): Griffin, Robert (Turku, Finland)

10:00-13:10 Symposium 34: Applications of evolutionary biology in agriculture and industry
Chair(s): Aanen, Duur (Wageningen, Netherlands)

14:30-17:20 Symposium 21: Genetic exchange in microbial adaptation and infectious disease
Chair(s): Hall, Alex (Zürich, Switzerland)

 

Wednesday, 23 August 2017

09:00-09:50 Keynote lecture Andreas Wagner
Chair(s): Weissing, Franjo (Groningen, Netherlands)

10:00-13:10 Symposium 33: Urban evolution
Chair(s): Szulkin, Marta (Warsaw, Poland)

10:00-13:10 Symposium 16: Genomics of adaptation (continued)
Chair(s): Zandveld, Jelle (Wageningen, Netherlands)

10:00-13:10 Symposium 24: Eco-evolutionary dynamics (continued)
Chair(s): Deere, Jacques (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

10:00-13:10 Symposium 3: Network-based approaches in evolutionary biology and medicine
Chair(s): Carja, Oana (Philadelphia, United States of America)

10:00-13:10 Symposium 28: Intragenomic conflicts and cytonuclear incompatibilities as engines of speciation
Chair(s): Babik, Wieslaw (Kraków, Poland)

10:00-13:10 Symposium 35: Open symposium
Chair(s): Beukeboom, Leo (Groningen, Netherlands)

10:00-13:10 Symposium 7: Sociality and disease
Chair(s): Fürst, Matthias (Klosterneuburg, Austria)

10:00-13:10 Symposium 35: Open symposium (continued)
Chair(s): Pen, Ido (Groningen, Netherlands)

 

Thursday, 24 August 2017

09:00-09:50 Keynote lecture Renée Duckworth
Chair(s): Maan, Martine (Groningen, Netherlands)

10:00-17:20 Symposium 25: Spatial evolution
Chair(s): Fronhofer, Emanuel (Dübendorf, Switzerland) ; Peter, Benjamin (Chicago, United States of America)

10:00-17:20 Symposium 26: Adaptation to global climate change
Chair(s): Ratikainen, Irja Ida (Trondheim, Norway) ; Lancaster, L.T. (Aberdeen, United Kingdom)

10:00-17:20 Symposium 27: Evolutionary implications of hybridization
Chair(s): Eroukhmanoff, Fabrice (Oslo, Norway) ; Stoeck, Matthias (Berlin, Germany)

10:00-17:20 Symposium 20: Evolutionary implications of transposable elements, epigenetics and non-genetic inheritance
Chair(s): Vieira, Cristina (Porto, Portugal) ; Spagopoulou, Foteini (Uppsala, Sweden)

10:00-13:10 Symposium 24: Eco-evolutionary dynamics (continued)
Chair(s): Egas, Martijn (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

10:00-17:20 Symposium 9: Fitness and evolution in a social environmen: from theory to reality
Chair(s): Kruuk, Loeske (Canberra, Australia)

10:00-17:20 Symposium 31: Evolution across the mutualist-parasite continuum
Chair(s): Ivens, Aniek (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; King, Kayla (Oxford, United Kingdom) ; Harrison, Ellie (Sheffield, United Kingdom) ; Encinas-Viso, Francisco (Canberra, Australia)

10:00-17:20 Symposium 29: Integration of micro- and macroevolution
Chair(s): Zwaan, Bas (Wageningen, Netherlands)

14:30-17:20 Symposium 35: Open symposium (continued)
Chair(s): Doorn, Sander van (Groningen, Netherlands)

 

Friday, 25 August 2017

09:00-09:50 Keynote lecture Chris Jiggins
Chair(s): Ellers, Jacintha (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

10:00-13:10 Symposium 25: Spatial evolution (continued)
Chair(s): Fronhofer, Emanuel (Dübendorf, Switzerland) ; Peter, Benjamin (Chicago, United States of America)

10:00-13:10 Symposium 26: Adaptation to global climate change (continued)
Chair(s): Travis, Justin (Aberdeen, United Kingdom)

10:00-13:10 Symposium 16: Genomics of adaptation (continued)
Chair(s): Whiteman, Noah (Berkeley, United States of America)

10:00-13:10 Symposium 32: Coevolution in antagonistic ecological interactions
Chair(s): Knegt, Bram (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

10:00-13:10 Symposium 35: Open symposium (continued)
Chair(s): Weissing, Franjo (Groningen, Netherlands)

10:00-13:10 Symposium 6: Evolutionary significance of biological clocks
Chair(s): Kaiser, Tobias (Plön, Germany) ; Hut, Roelof (Groningen, Netherlands)

10:00-13:10 Symposium 18: The evolutionary significance of chromosomal inversions
Chair(s): Kapun, Martin (Lausanne, Switzerland)

10:00-13:10 Symposium 10: Cognitive evolution
Chair(s): Kotrschal, Alexander (Stockholm, Sweden)

14:10-15:10 ESEB Members meeting
Chair(s):

15:10-15:50 ESEB Presidential Address Nina Wedell
Chair(s):

16:20-16:50 MS prize winner 2016 E. Keith Bowers
Chair(s): Decaestecker, Ellen (Kortrijk, Belgium)

16:50-17:20 MS prize winner 2017 Amanda Kyle Gibson
Chair(s): Decaestecker, Ellen (Kortrijk, Belgium)

17:20-17:50 Closing ceremony
Chair(s):