Germany & Japan Workshop on
Evolutionary Genomics
Dates: March 22nd and 23rd, 2016
Place: NIG Guest House 2nd Floor Seminar Room, National Institute of Genetics, Japan
Funded by DFG, Germany and National Institute of Genetics, Japan
Program
### Day 1: Tuesday, March 22nd, 2016
10:00 - 10:10 Opening remarks
10:10 - 12:10 Session 1: Bacterial evolution
Chair: Ebersberger, Ingo
10:10 - 10:45 Talk 1
Speaker: Yokobori, Shin-ichi
Title: Experimental evidence for the thermophilicity of ancestral life
10:45 - 11:20 Talk 2
Speaker: Roettger, Mayo
Title: Origins of major archaeal clades correspond to gene acquisitions from bacteria
11:20 - 11:55 Talk 3
Speaker: Dagan, Tal
Title: Phylogenomic transduction networks reveal genetic barriers to phage-mediated lateral gene transfer during microbial evolution
11:55 - 14:00 Lunch (NIG Guest House 1st floor)
14:00 - 15:45 Session 2: Viral evolution
Chair: Satta,Yoko
14:00 - 14:35 Talk 4
Speaker: Kupczok, Anne
Title: Detecting selection in bacteriophage genomes using metagenomic SNP data
14:35 - 15:10 Talk 5
Speaker: Watanabe, Hidemi
Title: Identification and evolutionary study of viral genomic elements responsible for specific clinical manifestations of diseases caused by human adenoviruses
15:10 - 15:45 Talk 6
Speaker: Fricke, Markus
Title: Evolution of non-coding RNAs and viral genomes
15:45 - 16:15 Tea/Coffee break
16:15 - 18:30 Session 3: Eukaryotic evolution
Chair: Watanabe, Hidemi
16:15 - 16:50 Talk 7
Speaker: Tamura, Koichiro
Title: Transcriptomic response for cold adaptation in Drosophila
16:50 - 17:25 Talk 8
Speaker: Ku, Chuan
Title: Endosymbiotic origin and differential loss of eukaryotic genes
17:25 - 18:00 Talk 9
Speaker: Akashi, Hiroshi
Title: Inferring the prevalence of adaptive evolution from polymorphism/divergence data: Biases from codon usage selection
18:30 - 20:30 Workshop Buffet Dinner (NIG Guest House 1st floor)
### Day 2: Wednesday, March 23rd, 2016
9:00 - 12:10 Session 4: Deuterostome evolution
Chair: Tamura, Koichiro
9:00 - 9:35 Talk 10
Speaker: Kawashima Takeshi
Title: Hemichordate genomes and the updated synapomorphy of deuterostome
9:35 - 10:10 Talk 11
Speaker: Saitou, Naruya
Title: Functional role of evolutionarily conserved non-coding sequences in vertebrates
10:10 - 10:45 Talk 12
Speaker: Satta, Yoko
Title: Detection of artificial selection in the chicken genome
10:45 - 11:20 Talk 13
Speaker: Niimura, Yoshihito
Title: Dynamic evolution of olfactory receptor genes in mammals
11:20 - 13:00 Lunch (NIG Guest House 1st floor)
13:00 - 15:00 Session 5: Methods to study evolution and their applications (1)
Chair: Akashi, Hiroshi
13:00 - 13:35 Talk 14
Speaker: Ebersberger, Ingo
Title: Tracing functional protein interaction networks across species and through time
13:35 - 14:10 Talk 15
Speaker: Butter, Falk
Title: A proteomics approach to study evolution of gene regulation and protein interactions
14:10 - 14:45 Talk 16
Speaker: Hiller, Michael
Title: Linking phenotypic differences between species to differences in their genomes
14:45 - 15:15 Tea/Coffee break
15:15 - 18:10 Session 6: Methods to study evolution and their applications (2)
Chair: Saitou, Naruya
15:15 - 15:50 Talk 17
Speaker: Stanke, Mario
Title: Comparative structural genome annotation
15:50 - 16:25 Talk 18
Speaker: Platzer, Matthias
Title: Genome evolution on different levels - 2 case studies
16:25 - 17:00 Talk 19
Speaker: Ikeo, Kazuho
Title: Dynamics of microbiota composition by using NGS big data
17:00 - 17:35 Talk 20
Speaker: Jinam, Timothy A.
Title: Demographic histories of human populations inferred from genome-wide SNP
17:35 - 18:30 General Discussion
List of speakers and chairpersons
Akashi, Hiroshi, Division of Evolutionary Genetics, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan
Butter, Falk, Institute of Molecular Biology, Mainz, Germany
Dagan, Tal, Institute of Microbiology, University Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Ebersberger, Ingo, Institute of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
Fricke, Markus, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany
Hiller, Michael, Max Planck Institute of Molcecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany
Ikeo, Kazuho, Laboratory for DNA Data Analysis, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan
Jinam, Timothy A., Division of Population Genetics, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan
Kawashima Takeshi, Laboratory for Development, Evolution and Phylogenetics, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
Ku, Chuan, Institute of Molecular Evolution, Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany
Kupczok, Anne, Institute of Microbiology, University Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Platzer, Matthias, Leibniz Institute on Aging - Fritz Lipmann Institute, Jena, Germany
Niimura, Yoshihito, Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Roettger, Mayo, Institute of Molecular Evolution, Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany
Saitou, Naruya, Division of Population Genetics, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan
Satta, Yoko, Department of Evolutionary Studies of Biosystems, SOKENDAI (Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Hayama, Japan
Stanke, Mario, Institut of Mathematics and Computer Science, Ernst Moritz Arndt Universitaet Greifswald, Germany
Tamura, Koichiro, Department of Biological Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Watanabe, Hidemi, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
Yokobori, Shin-ichi, Department of Molecular Biology, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, Japan