The fourth meeting of the European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology (EED) will be held from July 10–13, 2012 in Lisbon.

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Venue

Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon

Registration

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Abstract submission

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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.)

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Symposia

N.B. for a full listing and programme, see the Symposia Lisbon 2012 Webpage

• Towards a theory of development
  Organizers: Alessandro Minelli, Rinaldo Bertossa
• Evolution of organs and cell types
  Organizers: Andreas Hejnol, Jean-Francois Brunet

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• Evolution of stem cells and regeneration
  Organizers: Ram Reshef, Uri Frank
• Next generation models to understand animal phylogeny and regulatory evolution
  Organizers: Michel Vervoort, Florian Raible
• Evolution at the Plant-Animal interface
  Organizers: Beverley Glover, Sam Brockington
• Morphological misfits
  Organizers: Paula Rudall, Ronald Jenner
• Evo-Devo of homeotic transformations
  Organizers: Andre Pires da Silva, Frietson Galis
• Evo-Devo of arthropod appendages: the genes that matter
  Organizers: Patricia Beldade, Antonia Monteiro
• Evo-Devo in extreme environments
  Organizers: Didier Casane, Sylvie Rétaux
• Planarians to parasitism: Development and stem cells in flatworms
  Organizers Peter Olson, Bret Pearson

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• Posterior elongation in bilaterians
  Organizers: Guillaume Balavoine, Ariel Chipman

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• Regulatory protein changes in the evolution of plant body plans
  Organizers: Günter Theissen
• Theoretical contributions to Evo-Devo
  Organizers: Kirsten ten Tusscher, Hans Metz
• 3D Imaging for EvoDevo
  Organizers: Brian Metscher, Gerd Mueller
• 3D Morphometrics for EvoDevo
  Organizers: Philipp Mitteroecker
• Heterospory: The Evolutionary Road to the Seed
  Organizers: Heather Sanders, Mike Frohlich
• How do you like your eggs?
  Organizers: Casper Breuker, Alistair McGregor
• The origin and fate of germ cells in animal evolution and development
  Organizers: Jeremy Lynch, Evelyn Schwager
• Evolution of sex determining pathways in insects
  Organizers: Daniel Bopp, Louis van de Zande, Lino Polito, Martin Beye

Poster sessions

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Organizing Committees:

Local Committee

Élio Sucena (Chair) - Lisbon University & Gulbenkian Institute of Science Oeiras, Portugal
Patricia Beldade - Gulbenkian Institute of Science, Oeiras, Portugal
Moisés Mallo - Gulbenkian Institute of Science, Oeiras, Portugal
Christen Mirth - Gulbenkian Institute of Science, Oeiras, Portugal

Scientific Committee

Gerhard Schlosser (Chair) - National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Richard Bateman - The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, U.K.
Frietson Galis - VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam & NCB Naturalis, Leiden, Netherlands
Ronald Jenner - Natural History Museum, London, U.K.
Peter Olson - Natural History Museum, London, U.K.
Michel Schubert - Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon, ENS de Lyon, France
Élio Sucena - Lisbon University & Gulbenkian Institute of Science, Oeiras, Portugal

Program Committee

Gerhard Schlosser (Chair) - National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Frietson Galis - VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam & NCB Naturalis, Leiden, Netherlands
Élio Sucena -Lisbon University & Gulbenkian Institute of Science, Oeiras, Portugal

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