Program

Saturday

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09:00-10:00

Frank Rheindt: The build-up and loss of genetic diversity in Southeast Asian biota (50min)

10:30-12:30

Early evolution of vertebrates from evo-devo and paleontological perspectives (part 1)

Fitness landscapes bridge evolution and molecular biology

Impact of introgessive hybridization on tropical diversification

Open Category (Evo-Devo)

• Philip Donoghue: Origin and early evolution of vertebrates (20min)
• Shigeru Kuratani: Development of cyclostomes and early evolution of vertebrates (40min)
• Zhikun Gai: The origin of the gnathostome body plan: how the Evo-Devo models intersect with ostracoderm fossils (15min)
• Gembu Abe: Understanding the evolutionary development mechanism of bilateral form of vertebrate appendages using twin-tail morphology (15min)
• Tom Carney: Identification of an intermediate fin in the median to paired fin transition (15min)
• Chi Zhang: Bayesian phylogenetic analyses on the evolution of Jurassic lampreys (15min)

• Nobuhiko Tokuriki: Protein evolution and molecular determinants of protein evolvability (30min)
• Xiao Yi: Synthetic Evolution: Unleashing the power of evolution using synbio technologies (30min)
• Fyodor Kondrashov: Diversity of fitness peak shapes in the Green Fluorescent Protein (30min)
• Hsin-Hung David Chou: Unraveling the Design Principles of Bacterial Promoters and Transcriptional Regulation (30min)

• Charles Cannon: Quantifying the potential for future introgressive hybridization at continental and community scales among suites of interfertile species (30min)
• Kritika M. Garg: Impact of Quaternary glacial cycles on avifauna in Southeast Asia (30min)
• Todd Vision: Endemic species, introduced species, and two faces of secondary contact on oceanic islands (30min)
• Dezhi Zhang: Reconstructing the species tree in the face of incomplete lineage sorting and gene flow in three clades within the avian family Paridae (30min)

• Akira R. Kinjo: Plasticity-led evolution as an intrinsic property of developmental gene regulatory networks (15min)
• Archishman Raju: A Theoretical Perspective on Waddington’s Genetic Assimilation Experiments (15min)
• Masahiro Uesaka: The developmental hourglass model and the vertebrate body plan conservation: insights from single-cell level transcriptome analysis (15min)
• Kazuhide Miyamoto: Morphogenetic mechanism of the spiny ray in acanthomorpha fish and implication for the fin diversification. (15min)
• Hongwei Yu: Pan-evolutionary and regulatory genome architecture delineated by integrated macro- and microsynteny approach (15min)
• Richard Ron Litan: Evolvability of a nonfunctionally binding transcription factor (15min)
• Aneil Agrawal: Genomic response to release from sexual constraint (15min)

14:00-16:00

Early evolution of vertebrates from evo-devo and paleontological perspectives (part 2)

Why sex? insights from asexual genomes

Virus evolution: from basic research to public health applications

Open Category (Evolution of traits)

• Valeria Vaskaninova: Unexpected hypophyseal morphology of early vertebrate fossils challenges the utility of developmental biology for unravelling vertebrate evolution (20min)
• Jing Lu: The rise of bony vertebrate body plan (20min)
• You-an Zhu: Complete bony fish from the early Silurian of China reveals mosaic character combination of stem-group osteichthyan (20min)
• Tatsuya Hirasawa: Unveiling the enigmatic Middle Devonian vertebrate, Palaeospondylus (20min)
• Per E. Ahlberg: New light on Devonian tetrapod braincases and middle ears (20min)
• Donglei Chen: The first record of structurally preserved Devonian tetrapod skin. (20min)

• Yonas I. Tekle: Unveiling Cryptic Sexual Cycles: Genomic and Cytological Insights into Microbial Eukaryotes from the Supergroup Amoebozoa (Yonas I. Teklemin)
• Hugo Darras: Crazy reproduction in crazy ants (Hugo Darras* min)
• Qiaowei Pan: The lncRNA ANTSR coordinates complementary sex determination in ants. (Qiaowei Pan*, Hugo Darras, Laurent Keller min)
• Yixiang Zhang: Mutation rates and genome evolution in asexual and sexual reproduction organisms (Yixiang Zhang, Shuai Zhanmin)
• Yangzi Wang: Population genomics provide insights into the evolution of facultative asexuality in plants (Yangzi Wang, Pablo Duchen, Shuqing Xumin)

• Dong-Yan Jin: Origin and evolution of SARS-CoV-2 (20min)
• Jian Lu: Evolutionary dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 (20min)
• Wenfeng Qian: Evidence for a mouse origin of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant (20min)
• Weiwei ZHAI: Harnessing epistatic interactions in the fitness landscape for predicting adaptive evolution in the Influenza H3N2 virus (15min)
• Jia-Xing Yue: The pathogenicity evolution of papillomavirus revealed by a compendium of 3,562 human and animal papillomavirus genomes (15min)
• Jiansi Gao: Quantifying and improving Bayesian phylogenetic inference of large viral dataset (15min)
• Jui-Hung, Tai: Antagonist pleiotropy caused by the dual demand of the viral life cycle shapes genetic diversity and adaptive changes in SARS-CoV-2 (15min)

• Zhen Gong: The origin and evolution of a plant resistosome (15min)
• Nobuto Takeuchi: Low relatedness can drive the evolution of reproductive division of labour (15min)
• Samantha Kreling: So overt its covert: Wildlife coloration in the city (15min)
• Yu Zhang: Comparative Phylogenomics and Phylotranscriptomics Provide Insights into the Genetic Complexity of Nitrogen Fixing Root Nodule Symbiosis (15min)
• Martin Wu: Microbial genomic trait evolution is dominated by frequent and rare pulsed evolution (15min)
• Min Wang: Insight into the evolutionary assemblage of cranial kinesis from a Cretaceous bird (15min)
• Bing Dong: Kin selection as a modulator of human handedness: sex-specific, parental and parent-of-origin effects (15min)
• Xueling Yi: Sex chromosome turnover in hybridizing stickleback lineages (15min)

Sunday

LT26

LT27

LT28

LT29

09:00-10:00

Wei Zhang: Leaf Masquerade Mimicry in Oakleaf Butterflies (50min)

10:30-12:30

Behavioral evolution in vertebrates: diversity, genomics and mechanisms

An evolutionary perspective on pollinator biodiversity, systematics, and conservation

Genetics of adaptation and evolution of novel traits

Open Category (Evolution of populations)

• Wei Gao: Adaptive evolution of amphibians and reptiles on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP) (20min)
• Shichang Zhang: The strategies of male fighting against female’s sexual cannibalism in spiders (20min)
• Yuanting Guo: Adaptations to a cold climate promoted social evolution in Asian colobine primates (20min)
• Yi-Jun Yang: Heterogeneous bonds and relationships: uncovering the convergent evolutionary history between Golden snub-nosed monkeys with Homo sapiens. (15min)
• Philip Johns: Group behaviours in Singapore’s smooth-coated otters and the evolution of cooperative breeding (15min)
• Liang Liu: TSHβ2-producing cell: A key orchestrator of reproductive seasonality in sticklebacks (15min)

• Michael Orr: How has floral specialization influenced bee evolution? (15min)
• Nontawat Chatthanabun: Species and evolutionary relationships in the diverse bee genus of Megachile, Latreille, 1802 (Megachilidae: Megachilini) in Thailand (15min)
• Natapot Warrit: Building a barcode reference library and occurrence database for Asian bees (15min)
• Xin Zhou: What forces shape you? The genomics toward the dark side (15min)
• Chawatat Thanoosing: Biogeography of bumblebees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombus) in Southeast Asia: a case of Bombus flavescens (15min)
• John S. Ascher: How can biogeography, life history, and community science inform conservation of Asian bee species? (15min)
• Chao-Dong Zhu: New Research from China on the Ecology and Evolution of Plant-Pollinator-Parasitoid Systems (15min)
• Alice Hughes: Mapping the distribution of key pollinator groups and pollination service provision across landscapes (15min)

• Yuichi Oba: Firefly and its bioluminescent property (15min)
• Ying Zhen: Evolution of firefly toxins (15min)
• Antonia Monteiro: Prolegs are novel traits, not leg homologs (15min)
• Yafei Mao: The roles of structurally complex region in primate evolution and human neurological disease (15min)
• Daehan Lee: Single-cell and single-gene dissection of nervous system evolution in the ecological specialist Drosophila sechellia (15min)
• Carlos Manuel Herrera Castillo: Investigating the causes of adaptation in three-spined sticklebacks (a spiny subject) (15min)
• Wenyu Zhang: Tracing the origin and evolutionary fate of recent gene retrocopies in natural populations of the house mouse (15min)
• Philipp Schiffer: Adaptation of asexual and anhydrobiotic nematodes in extreme environments (15min)

• Chao Zhang: CASTER: Direct species tree inference from whole-genome alignments (15min)
• Alexander Skeels: Phylogenomics of a hyper-diverse plant clade (Grevilleoidea; Proteaceae) reveals the paleoenvironmental origins of a fractured distribution (15min)
• Audrey Miranda Prasetya: Beyond Endpoints: Islands drive radiation of passerine birds in the Indo-Australian Archipelago (15min)
• Hie Lim Kim: Prehistoric human migration between Sundaland and South Asia was driven by sea-level rise (15min)
• Shubha Govindarajan: Impact of foundress context on adaptation to a novel habitat (15min)
• Nandita Chaturvedi: Evolution of Populations in Heterogeneous and Dynamic Environments (15min)
• Ying Chen: Variation in deleterious mutation load in nine-spined stickleback (Pungitius pungitius) populations (15min)

14:00-16:00

The evolution of invertebrate sensory ecology and behaviours

Paleo- and macro- ecology in tropical Asia

Evolvability: a common currency of evolution, ecology and development

• Lars Chittka: The Mind of a Bee (20min)
• Mark Elgar: Natural and sexual selection pressures influencing chemical sensory morphology in insects (20min)
• Min Tan: The Flicker Fusion Camouflage Effect in Jumping Spiders (15min)
• Bernetta Kwek Zi Wei: Female preference for males with lower pattern contrast follows Weber’s law of proportional processing in jumping spiders (15min)
• Wei Zhou: Proportional assessment of weapons (15min)
• Daiki Sato: Genes underlying social collectives of flies under visual threat (15min)
• Rachel Seah Wan Xin: Effects of UV Light Exposure on Relative UV Opsin Genes rh3 Expression and Sexual Behaviour in Cosmophasis umbratica (15min)
• Eunice J. Tan: Colourful stick insects reduce daytime mating activity to lower predation risk (15min)

• Moriaki Yasuhara: Hotspots of Cenozoic tropical marine biodiversity (4min)
• Yue Wang: Plants maintain climate fidelity in the face of dynamic climate change (20min)
• Lin Na: Latitudinal gradient control on early Paleozoic biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (20min)
• Kenneth F Rijsdijk: Mapping Coastline Evolution and Sea Depth Dynamics in SE Asia since the last ice age 26 ky ago (20min)
• Buntarou Kusumoto: Geographical patterns of global woody plant diversity: their contemporary and historical environmental drivers (14min)
• Jun Ying Lim: The Cenozoic history of palms: diversification and biogeography (14min)
• Francis Nge: Macroevolution dynamics of tropical Asia, with a focus on the diverse tropical plant lineage Magnoliids and Annonaceae (14min)
• Chhaya Chaudhary: Marine species diversity in the recent past, present and future (14min)

• Naoki Irie: Intrinsically embedded inertial force in phenotypic evolution? (30min)
• Saburo Tsuru: Genetic properties influencing transcriptional plasticity and evolvability (30min)
• David J. Lohman: Adaptive radiation of Batesian mimics: Rapid divergent phenotypic evolution within and between species (15min)
• Masahiti Tsuboi: Ecology as the link between evolvability, development, and macroevolution: a case study using wing and body morphology of Odonata (15min)
• Keita Saito: Developmental noise and phenotypic plasticity are correlated in Drosophila simulans (15min)
• Junya Watanabe: New look at statistics of evolvability measures in quantitative genetics (15min)

Monday

LT26

LT27

LT28

LT29

09:00-10:00

Guojie Zhang: Evolutionary and developmental mechanisms of ant social caste system (50min)

10:30-12:30

Marine evo-devo: new frontiers from emerging marine model organisms

The genomics of adaptation and speciation (part 1)

Genomic diversity in nonequilibrium populations

• Hiroshi Watanabe: Evolutionary Origin of the Central Nervous System: Insights from the Development and Function of the Cnidarian Pharyngeal Nervous System. (25min)
• Shi Wang: Widespread presence of bone marrow-like hematopoietic stem cell niche in invertebrate skeletons (25min)
• Bo Dong: Spatially-resolved single-cell atlas of ascidian endostyle provides insights into the origin of vertebrate pharyngeal organs (25min)
• Jing Wang: Novel insights from Mollusca into ancient sex chromosome evolution and sexual regulation (25min)
• Penghui Liu: Construction of comprehensive and comparative multi-omics database for animal evo-devo (EDomics) and cross-species analysis (20min)

• Ryo Yamaguchi: The phoenix hypothesis of speciation: development of reproductive isolation among populations experiencing extinction risk (20min)
• Paolo Momigliano: Biases in demographic modelling affect our understanding of recent divergence (20min)
• Juha Merilä: Secondary contact, introgressive hybridization and genome stabilization in sticklebacks (15min)
• Wenji Luo: The last stand: genomes reveal terminal endangerment of tropical species in Southwest China (15min)
• Chaowei Zhang: Pedigree-based germline mutation rate in sticklebacks (15min)
• Jingliang Kang: Gene losses, parallel evolution and heightened expression confer adaptations to dedicated cleaning behaviour (15min)

• Christian Huber: Beyond Static Selection: The Genomic Footprints of Temporally Oscillating Alleles (25min)
• Joanna Masel: High deleterious mutation rates drive non-equilibrium dynamics (25min)
• Charleston Chiang: A genealogy-based framework to estimate population structure and demographic history (15min)
• Petri Kemppainen: Boundary effects cause false signals of range expansions in population genomic data (15min)
• BV Aditi: Beyond neutral loci: Understanding immune gene variation in an endangered big cat (15min)
• Kavita Jain: Joint effect of changing selection and demography on site frequency spectrum (12.5min)
• Parul Johri: Limitations of the inference of the distribution of fitness effects of new mutations in partially-selfing populations with linkage (12.5min)

14:00-16:00

Novel insights regarding genome architecture evolution in the arthropoda

The genomics of adaptation and speciation (part 2)

Open Category (Ecology and evolution)

• Jerome Hui: Insights from the understudied non-insect arthropod genomes (30min)
• Carol Eunmi Lee: Genome Architecture Evolution in the Copepod Eurytemora affinis Species Complex (30min)
• Sean Chun-Chang Chen: Comparative Genomics of the Arthropoda (25min)
• Daniel Schrider: Strong Positive Selection in Aedes aegypti and the Rapid Evolution of Insecticide Resistance (20min)

• Ningning Wu: Widespread Gene Expression Divergence in Butterfly Sensory Tissues Facilitates Speciation (15min)
• Yuxiang Zhu: When and how did introgression happen? A pan-genomic multiomics study of Genus Quercus L. (15min)
• Aidan W. Short: Ancient hybridization leads to the repeated evolution of red flowers across a monkeyflower radiation (15min)
• Shivansh Singhal: Genomic Parallelism in Pest Beetle Adaptation to Novel Environments (15min)
• Balaji Chattopadhyay: Diversification and complex patterns of introgression in Old World fruit bat (15min)
• Mrinalini Walter: Asymmetric reproductive isolation and differential gene flow drive incipient speciation in allopatric populations of dung flies (15min)
• Toni Gossmann: Long-term selection on mitocoding genes buried in mammalian and avian nuclear genomes (15min)
• Paolo Momigliano: Parallel evolution despite low genetic diversity in Europe’s ancient sticklebacks (15min)

• Sudipta Tung: Impact of Isocaloric Dietary Manipulation on Life-History Traits and Gene Expression in Outbred Drosophila melanogaster Population (15min)
• Shubha Govindarajan: Impact of foundress context on adaptation to a novel habitat (15min)
• Joy Bose: Chronic adaptation to malnutrition in the pre-adult stage mitigates infection costs at the expense of disease transmission risk in Drosophila adults: a novel trade-off in immunity. (15min)
• Michal Polak: Flight or mite? The evolutionary ecology of costly behavioral resistance to ectoparasitic mites (15min)
• Alison K.S. Wee: Adaptive chilling stress response in Asian mangroves at latitudinal range limits (15min)
• Neetika Ahlawat: How does resource presentation change adaptive trajectories? (15min)

• Yan Hao Comparative genomics reveals the genetic basis of adaptation in ground jays endemic to desert
(15min)