ESF-EMBO Symposium
Epigenetics in Context: From Ecology to Evolution
18-23 September 2011
Final Programme |
| Sunday 18 September |
17:00 onwards: Registration at the ESF desk
19:00: Welcome Drink
20:30: Dinner
| Monday 19 September |
09:00 – 09:20: Vincent Colot (ENS Paris, France) & Oliver Bossdorf (University of Bern, Switzerland)
Welcome and introduction to conference
Session 1: Epigenetic mechanisms
Chair: Deborah Bourc'his
09:20 – 09:55: Rob Martienssen (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA)
Heterochromatin reprogramming by small RNA regulates germ cell fate and transposon silencing in polyploid hybrids
09:55 – 10:30: Deborah Bourc'his (Curie Institute, Paris, France)
Ecology of transposons in the mammalian germline
10:30 – 11:00: Coffee break
11:00 – 11:35: Bill Kelly (Emory University, Atlanta, USA)
Epigenetic memory in the germline of C. elegans
11:35 – 11:55: Amir Bar (The Weizmann Institute, IL)
Evolution of a cancer-like epigenome
11:55 – 12:30: Stéphane Ronsseray (University of Paris 6, France)
Paramutation in Drosophila linked to emergence of a piRNA producing locus
12:30 – 14:00: Lunch
14:00 – 16:00: Free time for discussion
Session 2: Responses to the environment (I)
Chair: Caroline Dean
16:00 – 16:35: Caroline Dean (John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK)
Epigenetic silencing of FLC: mechanism and natural variation
16:35– 16:55: Emanuela Sani (Glasgow University, UK)
Investigating the role of chromatin modifications in plant stress memory
16:55 – 17:15: Igor Yakovlev (Norwegian Forest and Landscape Institute, As, Norway)
Molecular mechanisms of adaptive epigenetic memory in Norway spruce
17:15 – 17:45: Coffee break
17:45 – 18:20: Carlos Herrera (Doñana Biological Station, Sevilla, Spain)
DNA methylation responses to variable sugar environments in flower-living yeasts
18:20 – 18:40: Solenn Patalano (Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK)
The epigenetic events underlying phenotypic plasticity in eusocial Polistes wasps
18:40 – 19:00: Sonia Consuegra Del Olmo (Aberystwyth University, UK)
Epigenetic basis of environmental sex determination in a mixed-mating fish
19:00 – 19:20: Mackenzie Gavery (University of Washington, Seattle, USA)
Exploring the role of DNA methylation as a source of phenotypic variation in the Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas
19:30 – 21:00: Dinner
21:00 – 23:00: Poster Session
| Tuesday 20 September |
Session 3: Transgenerational effects (I)
Chair: Jerzy Paszkowski
09:00 – 09:35: Jerzy Paszkowski (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Epigenetic regulation of transgenerational inheritance
09:35 – 09:55: Leonie Suter (ETH, Zurich, Switzerland)
Transgenerational effect of environmental stress on the fitness of Arabidopsis thaliana
09:55 – 10:30: Koen Verhoeven (Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Heteren, The Netherlands)
Transgenerational consequences of stress exposure in apomictic dandelions
10:30 – 11:00: Coffee break & Group Photo
11:00 – 11:35: Claudine Junien (INRA, Jouy en Josas, France)
Epigenetic footprints of dietary alleviation of malprogramming across generations
11:35 – 11:55: Jose Gutierrez-Marcos (University of Warwick, UK)
Maternal control of nutrient allocation in plant seeds by genomic imprinting
11:55 – 12:15: Urban Friberg (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Selfish sex chromosomes and trans-generational epigenetic effects
12:30 – 14:00: Lunch
14:00 – 16:00: Free time for discussions
Session 4: Disentangling the G x epiG x P map
Chair: Dirk Schübeler
16:00 – 16:35: Frank Johannes (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
Unraveling the epigenetic dimension of complex trait inheritance
16:35– 16:55: James Prendergast (MRC, Edinburgh, UK)
Widespread signatures of recent selection linked to nucleosome positioning in the human lineage
16:55– 17:30: Dirk Schübeler (Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, Switzerland)
Genetic determinants of epigenetic repression
17:30 – 18:00: Coffee break
18:00 – 18:35: Bob Schmitz (Salk Institute for Biological Studies, San Diego, USA)
Population epigenomics: Characterization of Naturally and Spontaneously Occurring Epialleles from Arabidopsis
18:35 – 18:55: Maria Colome Tatche (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
Quantitative epigenetics in Arabidopsis
18:55 – 19:15: Claude Becker (MPI for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany)
The rate and spectrum of epigenetic variation in defined populations of Arabidopsis thaliana
19:30 – 21:00: Dinner
21:00 – 23:00: Poster Session
| Wednesday 21 September |
Session 5: Theoretical approaches
Chair: Eva Jablonka
09:00 – 09:35: Jason Wolf (University of Bath, UK)
The evolutionary genetics of genomic imprinting
09:35 – 09:55: Oana Carja (Stanford University, USA)
An equilibrium for phenotypic variance in fluctuating environments due to epigenetics
09:55 – 10:30: Régis Ferrière (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France)
How can Trinidadian guppies evolve and adapt so rapidly?
10:30 – 11:00: Coffee break
11:00 – 11:35: Troy Day (Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada)
A unified approach to the evolutionary consequences of genetic and nongenetic inheritance
11:35:11:55: Jemma Geoghegan (University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand)
Popuation-epigenetics models of selection
11:55 – 12:15: Sinead Collins (University of Edinburgh, UK)
The silent voice: how ephemeral variation affects adaptive stories
12:15:12:35: Tobias Uller (University of Oxford, UK)
Evolutionary implications of transgenerational epigenetic effects
12:35 – 14:00: Lunch
14:00 – 19:00: Free afternoon
19:00 – 20:00: Dinner
20:00 – 22:00: Poster session
| Thursday 22 September |
Session 6: Epigenetics and evolution
Chair: Ueli Grossniklaus
09:00 – 09:35: Malika Ainouche (University of Rennes, France)
Epigenetics and allopolyploid speciation: Exploring highly redundant genomes of invasive Spartina species (Poaceae)
09:35 – 09:55: Ovidiu Paun (University of Vienna, Austria)
Ecological adaptation in Dactylorhiza allopolyploids- a story from beyond genetics
09:55 – 10:30: Ueli Grossniklaus (University of Zürich, Switzerland)
Epigenetic control of pollination syndromes: a possible role of epigenetics in speciation?
10:30 – 11:00: Coffee break
11:00 – 11:35: David Baulcombe (University of Cambridge, UK)
RNA silencing and heritable epigenetic effects in tomato and Arabidopsis
11:35 – 11:55: Milos Tanurdzic (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA)
Small RNA mediate transposon instability in plant inter-specific hybrids in a parent-specific manner
11:55 – 12:15: Christoph Grunau (University of Perpignan, France)
Epigenetic variability as a source for new phenotypes in adaptive evolution
12:30 – 14:00: Lunch
14:00 – 16:00: Free time for discussions
Session 7: Responses to the environment (II) & Transgenerational effects (II)
Chair: Ortrun Mittelsten Scheid
16:00 – 16:35: Ortrun Mittelsten Scheid (Gregor Mendel Institute, Vienna, Austria)
Heat stress: a hot topic for plant chromatin
16:35 - 16:55: Francesc Piferrer (Institute of Marine Sciences, Barcelona, Spain)
An epigenetic mechanism is involved in temperature-induced sex ratio shifts in fish populations
16:55 – 17:15: Vit Latzel (University of Bern, Switzerland)
Epigenetic diversity promotes plant resistance to pathogens and competition
17:15 – 17:35: Lionel Navarro (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France)
Dynamics and biological significance of RNA-directed DNA methylation in plant immunity
17:35 – 18:05: Coffee break
18:05 – 18:50: Eva Jablonka (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Summary talk
19:00 – 20:00: Forward look plenary discussion
20:00: Drinks before dinner
20.30: Conference dinner
| Friday 23 September |
Breakfast and Departure
