Monday 20th June 2016, Michael Smith Lecture Theatre
University of Manchester
09:15 Registration in the foyer of the Michael Smith Building (Refreshments available from cafeteria in Michael Smith Lounge)
09:45 Introduction and welcome
Session 1: Genetic mechanisms
9:50 Mary O’Connell (Leeds) Remodeling protein function in animal genomes
10:40 Kai Zeng (Sheffield) Variation in the intensity of selection on codon bias over time drives contrasting patterns of base composition evolution in Drosophila
11:00 – 11:30: Coffee and Posters (Michael Smith Lounge)
Session 2: Symbioses
11:30 Mat Goddard (Lincoln and Auckland) The evolution of mutualisms
11:50 Georgia Drew (Liverpool) Friend or foe: The effect of a symbiont on honey bee colonies
12:10 Lucy Weinert (Cambridge) Replicated transitions from carriage to disease is associated with genome reduction in a zoonotic pathogen
12:30 Martin Carr (Huddersfield) A genomic survey of transposable elements in the choanoflagellate Salpingoeca rosetta
12:50 – 13:45: Lunch and Poster Session (Michael Smith Lounge)
Session 3: Experimental populations
13:45 Jonas Warringer (Gothenberg) Evolutionary Dynamics of Complex Experimental Populations
14:35 Danna Gifford (Manchester) Tunable β-lactamase expression potentiates high-level ceftazidime resistance evolution in two bacterial genera
14:55 Nicole Gruenheit (Manchester) A polychromatic ‘greenbeard’ locus determines patterns of cooperation in a social amoeba
15:15 – 15:45: Coffee and Poster Session (Michael Smith Lounge)
Session 4: Signatures of selection
15:45 Allan McDevitt (Salford) Using genotype-by-sequencing to investigate genomic variation and signatures of selection in European red foxes
16:05 Jenny James (Sussex) The relationship between genetic diversity and the efficiency of selection in animal mtDNA
16:25 Toni Marco (Essex) Selection against microRNA target sites
16:45 – 18:30: Drinks reception, Poster Session and student prizes (Michael Smith Lounge)
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