20-24 Jun 2022 Roscoff (France)

Invited speakers list

Session 1. Lessons from non-metazoan relatives

  • Thibaut Brunet (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, USA)
    Reconstructing the cellular phenotype of the single-celled ancestor of animals
  • Susana Coelho (Max Planck Institute, Tübingen, Germany)
    Origin and evolution of the sexes: lessons from non-metazoans cousins
  • László Nagy (Biological Research Centre, Szeged, Hungary)
    Taxonomic vs genomic fungi: large turnover of protistan genetic heritage in the fungal kingdom.
  • Jill Harrison (University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom)
    The origin and rise of vascular plants
     

Session 2. Lessons from the fossil record

  • Abder El Albani (University of Poitiers, France)
    Life history: A new perspective in the understanding of the emergence of multicellularity
  • Jean Vannier (University of Lyon 1, France)
    Understanding animal radiation in the Cambrian: Why fossils are so important
  • Phil Donoghue (University of Bristol, United Kingdom)
    Developmental biology of early animals and their near relatives
     

Session 3. Animal evolutionary relationships and tree topology

  • Hervé Philippe (CBTM, Moulis, France)
    Phylogénie des eucaryotes
  • Gert Wörheide (LMU, Munich, Germany)
    Towards resolving controversial nodes in the animal tree of life
  • Casey Dunn (Yale University, New Haven, USA)
    Phylogenetic comparative analyses of functional genomics
  • Camille Berthelot (IBENS, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France)
    Combining synteny and sequence-based approaches to investigate genome evolution
     

Session 4. Lessons from Placozoans

  • Harald Gruber-Vodicka (MPI, Bremen, Germany)
    Symbiosis as a driver of metazoan evolution
  • Tatiana Mayorova (NIH, Bethesda, USA)
    Placozoan cell types - counterparts of cell types in other animal phyla?
     

Session 5. Evolution of cells and cell types

  • Arnau Sebé Pedros (CRG, Barcelona, Spain)
    Single-cell analysis of early metazoan cell type programs
  • Juliette Azimzadeh (Institut Jacques Monod, Paris, France)
    Evolutionary perspective on centriole polarisation in multiciliated cells
  • Detlev Arendt (EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany)
    The assembly of molecular machinery in metazoan cell type evolution
  • Kristin Tessmar-Raible (University of Vienna, Austria)
    Telling time by sun and moon: What marine worms and midges can tell about the evolution of the mechanisms
     

Session 6. Lessons from Sponges and Ctenophores

  • Emmanuelle Renard (IMBE, Marseille, France)
    Insights into the first glass sponge genome
  • Sally Leys (Univeristy of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada)
    Sponge lives matter: physiology of sponges in the genomic era
  • Bernie Degnan (Universty of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia)
    Origin of animal multicellularity and complex differentiation landscapes
  • Ana Riesgo (Natural History Museum,  London, United Kingdom)
    Bacteria and sex: The role of the microbiome in the sexual determination and strategy shifts of sponges
  • Joe Ryan (Whitney Laboratory, University of Florida, USA)
    Evidence for muscle cell types in the last common animal ancestor
  • André Le Bivic (IBDM, Marseille, France)
    Evolution of adherens junctions in epithelial cells of metazoans

     

Session 7. Lessons from Cnidarians

  • Richard Copley (LBDV, Villefranche-sur-mer, France)
    Genes of the cnidarian-bilaterian ancestor
  • Celina Juliano (University of Davis, California, USA)
    Mechanisms of Development and Regeneration in Hydra
  • Matt Gibson (Stowers Institute, Kansas, USA)
    Tracing the origins of segmentation and segment polarization in animals
  • Ulrich Technau (University of Vienna, Austria)
    Assessing Genomic and cellular features of complexity in the cnidarian Nematostella vectensis
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