Join us for the 3rd conference of the European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology!

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PROGRAMME

Keynote Speakers

Per Ahlberg (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Moisés Mallo (Gulbenkian Institute of Science, Portugal)
Armin Moczek (Indiana University, Bloomington, U.S.A.)
Paula Rudall (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, U.K.)

Symposia (4 parallel sessions)

Towards a theory of development Organizers: Alessandro Minelli (Univ. Of Padua, Italy), Rinaldo Bertossa (Groningen University, The Netherlands)
Evolution of organs and cell types Organizers: Andreas Hejnol (SARS Bergen, Norway), Jean-Francois Brunet (IBENS, Paris, France)
Evolution of stem cells and regeneration Organizers: Ram Reshef (Technion Univ. Israel), Uri Frank (NUI Galway, Ireland)
Next generation models to understand animal phylogeny and regulatory evolution Organizers: Michel Vervoort (Institut Monod Paris, France), Florian Raible (University of Vienna, Austria)
Evolution at the Plant-Animal interface Organizers: Beverley Glover and Sam Brockington (Univ. of Cambridge, UK)
Morphological misfits Organizers: Paula Rudall (Royal Kew Gardens, UK, Ronald Jenner NHM London, UK)
Evo-Devo of homeotic transformations Organizers: Andre Pires da Silva (University of Texas, USA), Frietson Galis (VU University, the Netherlands)
Evo-Devo of arthropod appendages: the genes that matter Organizers: Patricia Beldade (Gulbenkian Institute, Portugal), Antonia Monteiro (Yale University, USA)
Evo-Devo in extreme environments Organizers: Didier Casane (CNRS Paris, France), Sylvie Rétaux (CNRS Gif-sur-Yvette, France)
Planarians to parasitism: Development and stem cells in flatworms Organizers Peter Olson (NHM London, UK), Bret Pearson (University of Toronto, Canada)
Posterior elongation in bilaterians Organizers: Guillaume Balavoine (Institut Monod Paris, France), Ariel Chipman (Hebrew University, Israel)
Regulatory protein changes in the evolution of plant body plans Organizers: Günter Theissen (Friedrich Schiller University, Germany)
Theoretical contributions to Evo-Devo Organizers: Hans Metz (IASA Austria)
3D Imaging for EvoDevo Organizers: Brian Metscher and Gerd Mueller (University of Vienna, Austria)
3D Morphometrics for EvoDevo Organizer: Philipp Mitteroecker (University of Vienna, Austria)
Heterospory: The Evolutionary Road to the Seed Organizers: Heather Sanders (University of Oxford, UK), Mike Frohlich (ENS de Lyon, France)
How do you like your eggs? Organizers: Casper Breuker and Alistair McGregor (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
The origin and fate of germ cells in animal evolution and development Organizers: Jeremy Lynch (University of Cologne, Germany), Evelyn Schwager (Harvard University, USA)
Evolution of sex determining pathways in insects Organizers: Daniel Bopp (University of Zurich, Switzerland), Louis van de Zande (University of Groningen, the Netherlands), Lino Polito (University of Naples, Italy), Martin Beye (Heinrich Heine University, Germany)

James Cotton, Joseph Hughes and Pete Olson have organised a symposium entitled “Next Generation Systematics: Studying Biodiversity in an Age of Ubiquitous Genomics” that will take place on Tuesday, July 5th, 2011, as part of the 8th Biennial meeting of the Systematics Association, held at Queen’s University, Belfast (organised by Juliet Brodie, James Cotton, Pete Olson and Christine Maggs).

A book proposal with the same title is currently in review with Cambridge University Press and is expected to be published as part of the Systematics Association Special Volume Series (ca. 2012).

Pete and Nick Riddiford recently participated in the 2nd Int. Invertebrate Morphology conference, June 20-23, Harvard, USA, where Pete delivered a talk entitled “Development of Hymenolepis microstoma as a parasitic model in comparative evolutionary biology”, and Nick presented a talk entitled “Wnt genes in flatworms”.

We were pleased to hear that the paper “Hox genes and the parasitic flatworms: New opportunities, challenges and lessons from the free-living” (2008) was a Parasitology International Top-Cited Article within the period 2008-2010!
See PUBLICATIONS

Hymenolepis microstoma is today’s ‘Species of Day’: a Natural History Museum celebration of the Year of Biodiversity
GO TO THE NHM WEBSITE

Pete, Natasha and Magdalena will attend the 2010 Moleuclar and Cellular Biology of Helminth Parasites VI on the Greek island of Hydra, 5-10 September, and will present work on developing the model cestode Hymenolepis for research in the genomic era. See PHOTOS

CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS:
The Hymenolepis genome and transcriptome
M Zarowiecki, A Sanchez-Flores, NN Pouchkina-Stantcheva, N Holroyd, M Berriman & PD Olson
SEE POSTER PDF (5.2 MB)

Development of RNA interference in Hymenolepis
NN Pouchkina-Stantcheva & PD Olson
SEE POSTER PDF (1.8 MB)

Pete recently attended the 2010 conference of the European Society of Evolutionary and Developmental Biology, held in Paris, France 6-9 July. See PHOTOS