| 9:25 | Welcome | Biffen Lecture Theatre |
| 9:30 | Invited: Mark Blaxter
Wellcome Sanger Institute |
Sequence everything: first fruits from the Tree of Life |
| 10:10 | Christopher Laumer
EMBL-EBI |
Revealing the genome biology of Earth’s smallest animals |
| 10:25 | Erika de Castro
University of Cambridge |
Unveiling the roles of cyanogenesis in the Heliconius evolution |
| 10:40 | Marie Louis
University of St Andrews |
Parallel evolution in bottlenose dolphins |
| 10:55 | Tea, Coffee | Genetics Part II & Tea Rooms |
| 11:25 | Levi Yant
University of Nottingham |
Hotspots of adaptation to whole genome duplication (WGD) in ten independent WGDs |
| 11:40 | Jaime Iranzo
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid |
Gain and loss of accessory genes accelerates core gene sequence divergence and facilitates speciation in prokaryotes |
| 11:55 | Daniel Fabian
EMBL-EBI |
Evolution of transposable element load and expression as a response to selection for longevity in Drosophila |
| 12:10 | Melanie Kirch
Friedrich Miescher Laboratory |
Standing genetic variation in ancient ~13-000 year old marine stickleback genomes |
| 12:25 | Nathanael Walker-Hale
University of Cambridge |
Evolution of L-DOPA-4-5-dioxygenase reveals multiple origins of betalain pigmentation in Caryophyalles |
| 12:40 | Lunch & Photo | Emmanuel College Old Library |
| 14:00 | Invited: Claudia Bank
Gulbenkian Institute |
What can we learn from experimental fitness landscapes? |
| 14:40 | Eleanor Miller
University of Cambridge |
Bayesian Skyline Plots do not agree with range size changes based on Species Distribution Models for Holarctic birds |
| 14:55 | Astrid Böhne
Center of Molecular Biodiversity Research |
Dynamics of sex chromosome evolution in a rapid radiation of cichlid fishes |
| 15:10 | Daniel Gebert
University of Cambridge |
Evolution of piRNA clusters in the Drosophila genus |
| 15:25 | Tea, Coffee | Genetics Part II & Tea Rooms |
| 15:55 | Roberta Bergero
University of Edinburgh |
Peeking into the sex chromosomes of guppy close relatives: turnover of a highly degenerated Y chromosome? |
| 16:10 | Roman Kellenberger
University of Cambridge |
The molecular basis of sexual deception in the South African daisy Gorteria diffusa |
| 16:25 | Patricia Santos
University of Bordeaux, CNRS |
Past human migrations account for the origins of the major Eurasian linguistic families |
| 16:40 | Invited: Mattias Jacobsson
Uppsala universitet |
Inferring the evolution of early humans from complete genome sequences |
| 17:30 | Drinks Reception | Genetics Tea Room |
| 19:00 | Dinner | The Anchor pub |
Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics Symposium 