RECOMB-CG 2015

October 4–7 | Frankfurt, Germany
Program

General Program Information

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This page enlists a detailed time schedule for each day of the conference.

Timetable for Sunday – October 4th

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Time (CET) 
18:00 (open-end)Welcome reception at Goethe University guesthouse Frauenlobstrasse.

Timetable for Monday – October 5th

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Time   
09:00
  • Session 1: Keynote

    Session Chair:
    David Sankoff
Investigating meiosis in allohexaploid BrassicaAnnaliese S. Mason
10:00
  • Session 1: Talk 1.1

Exact Approaches for ScaffoldingMathias Weller, Annie Chateau and Rodolphe Giroudeau
10:25Coffee Break
11:00
  • Session 2: Talk 2.1

    Session Chair: Lars Arvestad
Ancestral gene synteny reconstruction improves extant species scaffoldingYoann Anselmetti, Vincent Berry, Cedric Chauve, Annie Chateau, Eric Tannier and Sèverine Berard
11:25
  • Session 2: Talk 2.2
    		Reconstruction of Ancestral Gene Orders using Intermediate GenomesPedro Feijao
    11:50
    • Session 2: Talk 2.3
      		Sampling and counting genome rearrangement scenariosIstván Miklos and Heather Smith
      12:15
      • Session 2: Talk 2.4
        		Syntenic block overlap multiplicities with a panel of reference genomes provide a signature of ancient polyploidization eventsChunfang Zheng, Daniella Muñoz Santos, Victor Albert and David Sankoff
        12:45Lunch
        14:30
        • Session 3: Keynote

          Session Chair: Eric Tannier
        		Hierarchical Orthologous Groups: a unifying and scalable framework for large-scale gene evolutionChristophe Dessimoz
        15:30
        • Session 3: Talk 3.1
          		Widespread Signatures of Local mRNA Folding Structure Selection in Four Dengue SerotypesEli Goz and Tamir Tuller
          15:55
          • Session 3: Talk 3.2
            		A maximum pseudo-likelihood approach for phylogenetic networksYun Yu and Luay Nakhleh
            16:30
            • Poster Session
              • Business Meeting
                		Business Meeting held in parallel to the Poster Session from 17:30 till 18:15 in seminar room "Wallace"

                Timetable for Tuesday – October 6th

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                Time   
                09:00
                • Session 4: Keynote

                  Session Chair: István Miklós
                		Simulating and reconstructing genome evolution in vertebratesHugues Roest Crollius
                10:00
                • Session 4: Talk 4.1
                  		Prediction of microbial phenotypes based on comparative genomicsRoman Feldbauer, Frederik Schulz, Matthias Horn and Thomas Rattei.
                  10:25Coffee Break
                  11:00
                  • Session 5: Talk 5.1

                    Session Chair: Chunfang Zheng
                  		Reconstruction of an ancestral Yersinia pestis genome and comparison with an ancient sequenceWandrille Duchemin, Vincent Daubin and Eric Tannier
                  11:25
                  • Session 5: Talk 5.2
                    		Reconstruction of Composite Regulator-Target Splicing Networks from High-Throughput Transcriptome DataPanagiotis Papasaikas, Arvind Rao, Peter Huggins, Juan Valcarcel and A. Javier Lopez
                    11:50
                    • Session 5: Talk 5.3
                      		A comparative genomics study on the effect of individual amino acids on ribosome stallingRenana Sabi and Tamir Tuller
                      12:15
                      • Session 5: Talk 5.4
                        		Moments of genome evolution by Double Cut-and-JoinPriscila Biller, Laurent Gueguén and Eric Tannier
                        12:45Lunch
                        14:30
                        • Session 6: Keynote

                          Session Chair: Tandy Warnow
                        		Strain level microbial comparative genomics using shotgun metagenomicsNicola Segata
                        15:30
                        • Session 6: Talk 6.1
                          		Efficient algorithms for reconciling gene trees and species networks via duplication and loss events.Thu-Hien To and Celine Scornavacca
                          15:55Coffee Break
                          16:20
                          • Session 7: Talk 7.1

                            Session Chair: Katharina Jahn
                          		Probabilistic modeling of the evolution of gene synteny within reconciled phylogeniesMagali Semeria, Eric Tannier and Laurent Guéguen
                          16:45
                          • Session 7: Talk 7.2
                            		Reconstructing a SuperGeneTree Minimizing ReconciliationManuel Lafond, Nadia El-Mabrouk and Aïda Ouangraoua
                            17:10
                            • Session 7: Talk 7.3
                              		ASTRID: Accurate Species TRees from Internode DistancesPranjal Vachaspati and Tandy Warnow
                              17:35
                              • Session 7: Talk 7.4
                                		A Comparative Study of SVDquartets and Other Coalescent-Based Species Tree Estimation MethodsJed Chou, Ashu Gupta, Shashank Yaduvanshi, Ruth Davidson, Michael Nute, Siavash Mirarab and Tandy Warnow
                                19:00Conference Dinner

                                Timetable for Wednesday – October 7th

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                                Time   
                                09:00
                                • Session 8: Keynote

                                  Session Chair: Ingo Ebersberger
                                		Navigating Incongruence and Uncertainty in Genome-scale Phylogenetic and Ancestral State Reconstructions of EnterobacteriaNicole T. Perna
                                10:00
                                • Session 8: Talk 8.1
                                  		Event inference in multidomain families with phylogenetic reconciliationMaureen Stolzer, Katherine Siewert, Minli Xu, Han Lai and Dannie Durand
                                  10:25Coffee Break
                                  11:00
                                  • Session 9: Talk 9.1

                                    Session Chair: Jens Stoye
                                  		Phylogenomic Species Tree Estimation in the Presence of Incomplete Lineage Sorting and Horizontal Gene TransferRuth Davidson, Pranjal Vachaspati, Siavash Mirarab and Tandy Warnow
                                  11:25
                                  • Session 9: Talk 9.2
                                    		Gene-Pseudogene Evolution: A Probabilistic ApproachOwais Mahmudi, Bengt Sennblad, Lars Arvestad, Katja Nowick and Jens Lagergren
                                    11:50
                                    • Session 9: Keynote
                                      		Impacts of polyploidy on genome evolution in Brassica speciesIsobel Parkins
                                      12:50Optional Lunch