Symposia

Wallace Arthur (National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland): Past, present and future theories of development and related processes
Charbel Niño El-Hani (Federal University of Bahia, Salvador-BA, Brazil): Emergence in evolutionary and developmental time
Stuart Newman (New York Medical College Valhalla, NY, USA): Physico-genetics of morphogenesis: the hybrid nature of developmental mechanisms
Antonia Monteiro (Yale University, New Haven, USA): Environment, the unwelcome guest in development (tentative title)
Johannes Jaeger (Center for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain): Bioattractors: The Evolution of Dynamic Developmental Gene Regulatory Networks
Jan Traas (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France): Key players in plant development
Rinaldo C. Bertossa (University of Groningen, The Netherlands): Units of function across the biological hierarchy and in development
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Detlev Arendt (EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany): Evolution of nervous systems by expansion, duplication and divergence of neural circuits
Clare Baker (University of Cambridge, UK)
The development and evolution of vertebrate electroreceptors
Nicholas Strausfeld (University of Arizona, Tucson, USA): Exploring origins of a memory center in deep time
Jean-François Brunet (École normale supérieure, Paris, France):Ancient divergence of somatic and visceral neurons
Uli Technau (University of Vienna, Austria) : Tracing the evolutionary origin of striated muscles
Lionel Christiaen (NYU, New York, USA): Development and evolution of the cardiogenic mesoderm in Chordates
Volker Hartenstein (University of California, Los Angeles, USA): Stem cells and lineages of the intestine: a developmental and
evolutionary perspective
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Gerrit Begemann (Univ. of Constance, Germany): Pleiotropic requirements for retinoic acid signaling in zebrafish fin regeneration
Antonio Jacinto (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Ram Reshef (Univ. of Haifa, Israel): Stem cells and the molecular mechanisms underlie whole body regeneration in a urochordate
Justyna Kanska (NUI Galway, Ireland): The role of Nanos in neural cell type specification
Alexa Bely (Univ. of Maryland, USA)
Michalis Averof (Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB), Heraklion, Greece): Mapping the progenitors of limb regeneration in a crustacean
Gideon Grafi (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel): Stress-induced dedifferentiation: implications for adaptive evolution
Yoav Soen (Weizman Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel): Heritable reprogramming of development enabled by suppression of Polycomb genes
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Inaki Ruiz-Trillo (Institut de Biologia Evolutiva, UPF-CSIC, Spain): The origin of Metazoa: unicells take the lead
Maja Adamska (Sars Centre, Bergen, Norway): Sycon ciliatum as a model to study evolution of metazoan body plans
Ferdinand Marletaz (University of Oxford, UK): Chaetognaths: genomic insights into a zoological enigma
Jordi Garcia-Fernandez (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain): The amphioxus: what matters is the question, not the model
Florian Raible (MFPL/University of Vienna, Austria): Platynereis dumerilii as a new functional model system to dissect reproductive rhythmicity
Maria Ina Arnone (SZN, Naples, Italy): Conservation and divergence of a gene regulatory network that controls gut patterning in deuterostomes
Patrick Lemaire (CNRS, Montpellier, France): How to make morphologically similar embryos with divergent genomes?
Andreas Hejnol (Sars Centre, Bergen, Norway): Increased taxon sampling in animals improves the understanding of the evolution of developmental processes

Conrad Labendeira (Smithsonian Institution, USA): Late Permian to late Triassic plant-insect associations from South Africa and the origin of leaf mining
Wilhelm Boland (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany)
Andrew Hudson (University of Edinburgh, UK): Evolution of flower size and colour in Antirrhinum
Harald Krenn (University of Vienna, Austria): Evolution of mouthparts in Lepidoptera: adaptations to collect nectar and pollen
Beverley Glover (University of Cambridge, UK): The petal epidermis as the origin of visual and tactile signals to pollinating insects
Ian Baldwin (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena Germany): How plants solve the outcrossing-defence dilemma
Tanya Renner (University of California, Berkeley, USA): Molecular evolution of class 1 chitinases utilized for plant carnivory in the Caryophyllales
Ulrike Bauer (University of Cambridge, UK): Form follows function: divergent evolution of trap designs in carnivorous pitcher plants
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Alessandro Minelli (Department of Biology, University of Padova, Italy): Modularity, paramorphism and synorganization - what morphological misfits may suggest about the architecture of development
Rolf Rutishauser (University of Zurich, Switzerland): River-weeds and bladderworts
Andrew Smith (The Natural History Museum, London, UK): Steps in the origin of the echinoderm body plan; what the fossil record tells us
Thomas Stützel (Fakultät für Biologie und Biotechnologie, University of Bochum, Germany): Fits and misfits in normal and abnormal cones of gymnosperms
Alexander Gruhl (The Natural History Museum, London, UK): Myxozoa: cnidarians gone parasitic
Chelsea Specht (University of California, Berkeley, USA): Emerging complexity in tropical gingers (Zingiberales): homoplasy and floral evolution
Shigeru Kuratani (RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Kobe, Japan): Developmental understanding of the turtle shell - generation of evolutionarily novel patterns in vertebrates
Dmitry Sokoloff (University of Moscow, Russia): Evolution of floral polymery in a derived angiosperm family, Araliaceae (Apiales)

Michael Akam (University of Cambridge, UK)
John Bowman (Monash University, Australia): Patterning events during the life cycle in the liverwort Marchantia
Linda Holland (Scripps Institute of Oceanography, USA): Retinoic acid mediates homeotic transformations in the basal
chordate amphioxus
Zhe-Xi Luo (Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh): Patterns of vertebral identities and evolutionary development of vertebral columns of early mammals
Guenter Theissen (University of Jena, Germany): Evo-devo of naturally occuring floral homeotic varieties
Joost Woltering (University of Geneva, Switzerland): Analysis of differences in Hox gene regulation between mouse and teleost fishes with respect to the fin-limb transition
Andre Pires da Silva (University of Texas, USA): Homeotic transformations in natural populations of anole lizards
Frietson Galis (NCB Naturalis and VU University Medical Center Amsterdam, The Netherlands): On homeotic transformations and natural selection in mammals
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Ryo Futahashi (National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan): Evolution and Development of dragonfly color pattern
Elizabeth Jockusch (University of Connecticut, USA): Conservation and change in the metamorphic patterning of beetle appendages
Abderrahman Khila (University of Lyon, France): Comparative functional analyses reveal multiple paths to diversification
of legs in the semi-aquatic bugs
Christen Mirth (IGC, Portugal): Ecdysone regulates nutrition-dependent patterning and growth of developing wings in Drosophila
Virginie Orgongozo (University of Paris Diderot, France): Achaete-scute, bristle loss and developmental noise in Drosophila santomea
Nipam Patel (UC Berkeley, USA): The development and diversification of crustacean appendages
Aleksandar Popadic (Wayne State University, USA): Hox gene patterning of hemipteran limbs
Yoshi Tomoyasu (University of Miami, USA): Diverged developmental mechanisms underlying the conserved insect wing vein patterns

Rochelle Buffenstein (Barshop Institute, San Antonio, USA): Super-mole; insights from the naked mole-rat about life in extreme environments
S. S. Kulkarni, D. R. Buchholz, I. Gomez-Mestre, R. J. Denver, C. L. Moskalik and B. L. Storz (University of Cincinnati, USA): Evolution and mechanisms of developmental plasticity in desert spadefoot toads
William R. Jeffery and Helena Bilandžija (University of Maryland, College Park, USA, and Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia): Evolution of albinism in an extreme environment: Dark caves
Masato Yoshizawa and William R. Jeffery (University of Maryland, College Park, USA): Evolution of a vibration attraction behavior in cavefish
Sylvie Rétaux, Karen Pottin and Hélène Hinaux (CNRS, Gif sur Yvette, France): Developmental evolution of the loss of eyes in cavefish
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Aziz Aboobaker (University of Nottingham, UK): Adaptive evolution of telomere biology in regenerating flatworms
Klaus Brehm (Universität Würzburg, Germany): Echinococcus as parasitic model in stem cell biology
Francesc Cebrià (University of Barcelona, Spain): The EGFR signalling pathway during planarian regeneration and homeostasis: function and downstream targets
Jochen Rink (Max Planck Institute, Dresden, Germany): Body building: axial patterning during planarian regeneration
Peter Ladurner (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
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Peter D. Olson (The Natural History Museum, UK): Toward a comparative understanding of the evolution of parasitism in flatworms

Susan Brown (Kansas State University, USA): Segmentation in Tribolium: from stripes to waves
Wim Damen (University of Jena, Germany): Segmentation in spiders
Jacqueline Deschamps (Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands): Evolutionary conserved requirement of Cdx for post-occipital tissue emergence
Chris Lowe (Stanford University, USA): Posterior growth in hemichordates: growing a trunk without segments
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Annette Becker (University of Bremen, Germany): Changes that matter: evolution of a protein motif required for floral homeotic complex formation
Chiara Airoldi (University of Leeds, UK): Male and female organ identity is influenced by a single amino acid change
Rainer Melzer (Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany): From fuzzy interactions to fading borders to floral diversity:
evolutionary dynamics of floral quartet formation
Edwige Moyroud (University of Cambridge, UK): Biophysical models for predicting regulatory interaction and studying LEAFY evolution

Kirsten ten Tusscher (Utrecht University, The Netherlands): In-silico evolution of body plans; integrating growth, segmentation and differentiation
Isaac Salazar Ciudad (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain; University of Helsinki, Finland): A general computational model of development to study the modular genotype-phenotype map and its evolution
Kunihiko Kaneko (University of Tokyo, Japan): Developmental plasticity as a means to cope with environmental variation
Paul Francois (McGill University, Montreal, Canada): Bifurcation theory for evo-devo

Zerina Johanson (The Natural History Museum, London, UK): Evolution and development of a morphological innovation: the pufferfish beak
Thomas Schwaha (University of Vienna, Austria): Integrative approaches for developmental imaging
James Sharpe (Center for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain): Mesoscopic optical imaging for Evo-Devo studies
Jukka Jernvall (University of Helsinki, Finland): Evolutionary phenomics tools to decipher surface complexity

Philipp Gunz, Simon Neubauer (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany): A developmental perspective on hominin brain evolution
Michael Coquerelle (Museo Nacional deCiencias Naturales, Madrid, Spain): EvoDevo of the human chin: 3D morphometrics of the mandible, the teeth, and muscle insertions
Abby Grace Drake (Skidmore College, USA): Intraspecific macroevolution in domestic dogs: Disparity and modularity of skull shape
Philipp Mitteroecker (University of Vienna, Austria): How to measure phenotypic variation in development and evolution

Richard Bateman (Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, UK): Heterospory: what is it, who does it, and why does it matter?
Cyrille Prestianni (Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Belgium): Heterospory and seed habit, two innovations in the Devonian changing world
Irma Roig Vilanova (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy): MADS-box network controlling integument development
Ueli Grossniklaus (University of Zurich, Switzerland): Epigenetic control of a pollinator syndrome: a role for epigenetics in evolution?

Jeremy Lynch (University of Cologne, Germany): Convergence, co-option, and novelty in the evolution of insect eggs
Ehab Abouheif (McGill University, Canada)
Thomas Flatt (University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria): Endocrine Regulation of ovarian development and fecundity in Drosophila
Gary Wessel (Brown University, USA)
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Peter Dearden (University of Otago, New Zealand): Germ cell specification and ovary function in the rotifer Brachionus plicatilis
Roland Dosch (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany): Germ plasm formation in vertebrates: the role of bucky ball in zebrafish
Cassandra Extavour (Harvard University, USA): Diverse mechanisms of insect germ cell specification and development
Einhard Schierenberg (University of Cologne, Germany): Nematodes, the germline and construction of the body plan

Daniel Bopp (University of Zürich, Switzerland): Is sex determination in insects based on a common principle?
Giuseppe Saccone (University of Naples, Federico II, Italy): A conserved positive genetic feedback for female sex determination in flies, fruitflies and medflies
Teruyuki Niimi (Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan): Control of sexual dimorphism by the doublesex gene in beetles
Louis van de Zande (University of Groningen, The Netherlands): Maternal imprinting may control haplodiploid sex determination in Nasonia
Martin Beye (Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany): What honeybees can tell us about the evolution of sex determination systems

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