International Conference on Polyploidy
11-14 June 2019, Ghent, Belgium
International Conference on Polyploidy
A VIB Science Event
Add to calendarThe International Conference on Polyploidy will present cutting edge research into the importance of polyploidy and whole genome duplication for genetics, evolution and ecology. For the 2019 meeting, which will take place at the beautiful city of Ghent, we are trying to put together an exciting program focusing on many different aspects of polyploidy, such as the short- and long-term ecological and evolutionary consequence of polyploidy for plant and animal systems, but also polyploidy in somatic cells and clonal populations will be discussed.
The International Conference on Polyploidy will present a unique opportunity to meet and discuss with colleagues, get updated on the newest developments and insights into recent and ancient polyploidy and whole genome duplication, and will provide unique possibilities to network and discuss collaborations. We are delighted to announce that Dr. Ilia Leitch (Kew Gardens) has agreed to deliver the plenary lecture on Tuesday afternoon, June 11th, opening the meeting.
Poster information:
Format: A0 (841 x 1189 mm / 33.1 x 46.8 in), portrait orientation
Abstract submission deadline:
11 April 2019 (Extended - 30 April 2019). Abstract submission is now closed.
Confirmed speakers
Itay Mayrose
Itay Mayrose
Tel Aviv University, Plant Evolution, bioinformatics & comparative genomics, IL
Emanuel Gaquerel
Emanuel Gaquerel
Institute of Plant Molecular Biology (CNRS / University of Strasbourg), FR
Program
Day 1 - Tuesday, 11 June, 2019
15:30
16:00
Registration & poster set-up
16:00
16:10
Welcome & introduction
16:10
17:00
Plenary session 1
The wondrous cycles of polyploidy in plants
Jonathan Wendel
Iowa State University, US
17:00
19:00
Poster set-up & welcome reception
Day 2 - Wednesday, 12 June, 2019
08:00
09:00
Registration & poster set-up
Session 1: Evolutionary and ecological significance of polyploidy (part 1: short-term/micro evolutionary)
09:00
09:30
Is there a single polyploidy paradigm?
Doug Soltis
University of Florida, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, US
Keynote speaker
09:30
10:00
Ecological and evolutionary advantages of polyploidy revealed by strawberries
Tia-Lynn Ashman
University of Pittsburgh, US
Keynote speaker
10:00
10:30
Coffee break
10:30
10:45
Deleterious Mutation Accumulation During Cotton Allopolyploidization, Speciation, and Domestication
Justin Conover
Iowa State University, US
Selected from abstracts
10:45
11:00
Polyploidy and adaptation in Australian burrowing frogs Neobatrachus
Polina Novikova
VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, BE
Selected from abstracts
11:00
11:15
Pervasive population genomic consequences of genome duplication in arabidopsis arenosa
Levi Yant
University of Nottingham, UK
Selected from abstracts
11:15
11:30
Distinguishing successive ancient polyploidy levels based on genome-internal syntenic alignments
David Sankoff
University of Ottawa, CA
Selected from abstracts
11:30
11:45
When triploids take over: phylogeography of geographical parthenogenesis in Hieracium alpinum
Matthias Hartmann
Institute of Botany Czech Academy of Science, Pruhonice, CZ
Selected from abstracts
11:45
12:00
Adaptation and genotype-environment interaction in polyploid populations: lessons from primary contact zones
Filip Kolar
Charles University, CZ
Selected from abstracts
12:00
12:15
Phylogenetic and population structural inference from genomic ancestry maintained in present-day common wheat Chinese landraces
Lei Gong
Northeast Normal University, CN
Selected from abstracts
12:15
12:30
Are homeologs redundant? Resequencing of the allotetraploid Arabidopsis kamchatica using subgenome classi cation approaches
Kentaro Shimizu
University of Zurich, CH
Selected from abstracts
12:30
14:00
Lunch
Session 2: Evolutionary and ecological significance of polyploidy (part 2: long-term/macro evolutionary)
14:00
14:30
Post-polyploid diploidization and karyotype evolution
Martin Lysak
Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC), Masaryk University, CZ
Keynote speaker
14:30
15:00
From Genome to Ecology: niche separation in genus Cardamine through polyploidization
Rie Shimizu-Inatsugi
University of Zürich, CH
Keynote speaker
15:00
15:30
Coffee break
15:30
15:45
Impact of polyploidy on the genetic diversity of vascular plants
Michael Barker
University of Arizona, US
Selected from abstracts
15:45
16:00
The Aquilegia genome reveals a hybrid origin of core eudicots
Gökce Aköz
Gregor Mendel Institute and Vienna Graduate School of Population Genetics, AT
Selected from abstracts
16:00
16:15
The evolutionary history of nuclear genomes trapped in a polyploid salamander lineage
Rob Denton
University of Minnesota Morris, US
Selected from abstracts
16:15
16:30
Genome reorganization after whole genome duplication in evolution of free-living flatworms of the genus Macrostomum
Kira Zadesenets
The Federal Research Center Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RU
Selected from abstracts
16:30
16:45
Gene Duplication in the Evolution of the Glucosinolate Biosynthesis Pathway
Shawn Abrahams
University of Missouri, US
Selected from abstracts
16:45
17:00
Co-evolution of chloroplast and nuclear genomes in owering plants and impact of allopolyploidy on ne-tuned cytonuclear interactions
Mathieu Rousseau-Gueutin
INRA, FR
Selected from abstracts
17:00
17:15
Does reproductive assurance explain the incidence of polyploidy in plants and animals?
Jonathan Spoelhof
University of Florida, US
Selected from abstracts
17:15
17:30
Deep-time morphological stasis in the carnivorous plant genus Drosera despite different trajectories of genomic upheaval
Victor Albert
University at Buffalo, Nanyang Technological University, US
Selected from abstracts
17:30
20:00
Poster session & networking reception
Day 3 - Thursday, 13 June, 2019
Session 3: Genetic, epigenetic, and physiological consequences of polyploidy
09:00
09:30
Integration of genomic and ecological changes in polyploids
Christian Parisod
University of Bern, CH
Keynote speaker
09:30
10:00
Does polyploidy influence genomic accumulation of repetitive elements?
Maurine Neiman
University of Iowa, US
Keynote speaker
10:00
10:30
Coffee break
10:30
10:45
Transposable elements and early stages of polyploid evolution. A perspective from sibling allopolyploid marsh orchids (Dactylorhiza).
Mimmi Eriksson
University of Vienna, AT
Selected from abstracts
10:45
11:00
DNA methylation repatterning accompanying hybridization, whole genome doubling and homoeolog exchange in nascent segmental rice allotetraploids
Ning Li
Northeast Normal University, CN
Selected from abstracts
11:00
11:15
Integrating multiple RNA-seq normalizations to assess the impact of autopolyploidy and drought stress on gene expression in Tolmiea
Clayton Visger
California State University Sacramento, US
Selected from abstracts
11:15
11:30
Chromatin structure and evolution of duplicate gene expression
Guanjing Hu
Iowa State University, US
Selected from abstracts
11:30
11:45
Small-RNAs and PAH-stress tolerance in polyploid Spartina species (Poaceae)
Armel Salmon
University of Rennes 1 - UMR CNRS ECOBIO, FR
Selected from abstracts
11:45
12:00
Evolution by gene loss: meiotic recombination genes could have their say
Eric Jenczewski
Institut Jean Pierre Bourgin, INRA, FR
Selected from abstracts
12:00
12:15
A reshuffling machinery for generating new diversity in a polyploid context: Model Brassica napus
Anne-Marie Chèvre
INRA, FR
Selected from abstracts
12:15
12:30
The interplay of polyploidy, epigenetic patterns, niche shifts and apomixis in plants
Elvira Hoerandl
University of Goettingen, DE
Selected from abstracts
12:30
14:00
Lunch
Session 3 part 2: Genetic, epigenetic, and physiological consequences of polyploidy
14:00
14:30
Gene regulatory evolution following whole genome duplication
Simen Sandve
Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Aas, NO
Keynote speaker
14:30
15:00
Investigating questions of size scaling and speciation using frogs with different genome sizes
Rebecca Heald
University of California, US
Keynote speaker
15:00
16:00
Coffee break & poster session (continued)
16:30
17:30
Boat tour + conference dinner
Guided boat tour (16.30 - 17.30)
Conference dinner (18.00) @NT Ghent (registration required + additonal fee)
Day 4 - Friday, 14 June, 2019
Session 4: ‘Somatic’ polyploidy
09:00
09:30
Proteome changes upon whole genome doubling
Zuzana Storchova
Technical University Kaiserslautern, DE
Keynote speaker
09:30
10:00
Critical roles for somatic polyploidy in organ development and repair
Don Fox
Duke University Medical Center, US
Keynote speaker
10:00
10:15
Polyploidy and Origin of Human Tumors
Jinsong Liu
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, US
Selected from abstracts
10:15
10:30
Characterization of polyploid neurons in the developing mouse neocortex 3
Thomas Jungas
CBI CNRS UMR5547, FR
Selected from abstracts
10:30
11:00
Coffee break
Session 5: Evolutionary and ecological significance of polyploidy (short-term continued)
11:00
11:15
What are the ecological mechanisms involved with the allopatric distribution of a diploid-tetraploid complex?
Sílvia Castro
CFE, University of Coimbra, PT
Selected from abstracts
11:15
11:30
The fate of homeologous genes which control transition to owering in recent allotetraploid Capsella bursa-pastoris
Anna Klepikova
The Institute for Information Transmission Problems RAS, RU
Selected from abstracts
11:30
11:45
Genomic interactions and their eco-physiological implications for adaptation to soil chemistry in allopolyploid marsh orchids
Ovidiu Paun
University of Vienna, AT
Selected from abstracts
11:45
12:00
Pre- & postzygotic barriers to across-ploidy gene ow in Arabidopsis arenosa: testing the role of spatial scale, genetic divergence & reinforcement
Emma Jane Morgan
Charles University in Prague, CZ
Selected from abstracts
12:00
12:15
The yeast species B. bruxellensis: a diploid-allotriploid complex showing adaptation to anthropic environments
Warren Albertin
ISVV, FR
Selected from abstracts
12:15
12:30
Fine-scale empirical data on ecology and transcriptomics reveal niche differentiation of an allopolyploid from diploid parents in Cardamine
Reiko Akiyama
University of Zurich, CH
Selected from abstracts
12:30
14:59
Lunch
Session 6: Evolutionary experiments, computational models and statistical approaches to study polyploidy
14:00
14:30
Revisiting global biogeographic trends of polyploid plants
Itay Mayrose
Tel Aviv University, Plant Evolution, bioinformatics & comparative genomics, IL
Keynote speaker
14:30
15:00
Joining forces: allopolyploidy-mediated innovations in the specialized metabolic networks of Nicotiana species
Emanuel Gaquerel
Institute of Plant Molecular Biology (CNRS / University of Strasbourg), FR
Keynote speaker
15:00
15:30
Coffee break
15:30
15:45
Exploring interactions between the parental genomes in the young allotetraploid A.suecica
Robin Burns
GMI, AT
Selected from abstracts
15:45
16:00
Assembly graph cleaning through machine learning improves de novo long-read polyploid assembly
Thomas Abeel
Delft University of Technology, NL
Selected from abstracts
16:00
16:15
Demographic inference in autopolyploid species
Paul Blischak
University of Arizona, US
Selected from abstracts
16:15
16:30
Polyploidy effects in the haplodiploid parasitoid Nasonia
Kelley Leung
University of Groningen, NL
Selected from abstracts
16:30
16:45
Supervised Learning Estimation of Duplicate Genomes (SLEDGe): A Machine Learning Approach to Characterizing Ancient Whole-Genome Duplications
Brittany Sutherland
University of Arizona, US
Selected from abstracts
16:45
17:00
Inference of ancient whole genome duplications and the evolution of the gene duplication and loss rate
Arthur Zwaenepoel
VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, BE
Selected from abstracts
17:00
17:15
Taglotyping: Ploidy-independent TAG-SNP based haplotyping using only short reads
Stan Oome
Genoome, NL
Selected from abstracts
17:15
17:30
Unraveling hybridization in the genus Phytophthora using phylogenomics and genome size estimation
Tom Ruttink
ILVO, BE
Selected from abstracts
17:30
18:00
Poster award and closing
Organizing committee
Malika Ainouche
University of Rennes, FR
Michael Barker
University of Arizona, US
Visnja Besendorfer
University of Zagreb, HR
Andrew Leitch
Queen Mary University of London, UK
Maurine Neiman
University of Iowa, US
Polina Novikova
VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, BE
Eric Schranz
Wageningen University & Research, NL
Pamela S Soltis
University of Florida, US
Yves Van de Peer
VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, BE
Jonathan Wendel
Iowa State University, US
Abstracts
The full list of abstracts will be available on 04-06-2019 until 25-06-2019
This list will only be available for registered attendees of the event.
This list will only be available for registered attendees of the event.
Attendees
The full list of attendees will be available on 04-06-2019 until 25-06-2019
This list will only be available for registered attendees of the event.
This list will only be available for registered attendees of the event.
