CIG – NEWS

9:30 – 10:15 John Moran – University of Michigan
Studies of a Human Retrotransposon

10:15 – 11:00 Nicholas Katsanis – Duke University
Modeling the morbid human genome

11:00 – 11:30 COFFEE BREAK

11:30 – 12:15 Julian Parkhill – Sanger Institute
Understanding transmission and evolution of bacterial pathogens through large-scale sequencing

12:15 – 13:00 Jeffrey Jensen – École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
What has genomics taught us about adaptation?

13:00 LUNCH (sandwiches and drinks provided in Exhibition Hall)

14:30 – 15:15 Han Brunner – Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre
How next generation sequencing changes medicine

15:15 – 16:00 Carole Charlier- University of Liège
Serial translocation via circular intermediates underlies colour sidedness in cattle

Friday February 17 (09h20 starting time)

9:30 – 10:15 Nicolas Galtier – Université Montpellier II
Species life-history traits and genome evolution

10:15 – 11:00 Chris Bowler – Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
The Tara Oceans Expedition – A holistic approach for marine eco-systems biology

11:00 – 11:30 COFFEE BREAK

11:30 – 12:15 Chris Jiggins – University of Cambridge
A butterfly genome offers insights into adaptation and speciation

12:15 – 13:00 Maarten Koornneef – Max-Planck Institute, Köln
Exploiting natural variation in Arabidopsis thaliana

13:00 LUNCH (sandwiches and drinks provided in Exhibition Hall)

14:30 – 15:15 Sophien Kamoun – The Sainsbury Laboratory
Genome evolution in the Irish potato famine pathogen lineage

15:15 – 16:00 Marc Robinson-Rechavi – University of Lausanne and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Evolution and gene expression in vertebrates