Conference Schedule: Thursday, June 18, 2009 8:00   Registration 9:15   Conference Opening & Organizer's Welcome 9:30   Opening Keynote Lecture: Walter J. Gehring (Biozentrum University of Basel, Switzerland) Evolution of Eyes and Photoreceptors 10:30   Coffee Break 11:00   Adam Eyre-Walker (University of Sussex, UK) The Genomic rate of Adaptive Evolution 11:30   Karen E. Nelson (J. Craig Venter Institute, San Diego, USA) Genomic Applications to the study of Human Microbiology 12:00   Derek Smith (University of Cambridge, UK) The antigenic evolution of influenza viruses 12:30   Lunch break 14:00   Christian von Mering (SIB & University of Zurich, Switzerland) Optimality and evolution of protein abundance levels in eukaryotes 14:30   Allan Drummond (Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA) Natural selection against protein misfolding 15:00   Christine Orengo (University College London, UK) A Domain Family Perspective on the Evolution of Protein Functions 15:30   Coffee Break 16:00   Francois Felber (University of Neuchatel, Switzerland) Darwin's Garden 16:30   Stefan Rensing (University of Freiburg, Germany) The Physcomitrella Genome Reveals Evolutionary Insights into the Conquest of Land by Plants 17:00   Nicolas Salamin (SIB & University of Lausanne, Switzerland) Convergent genotypic evolution and the origin of C4 photosynthesis in plants 17:30   Conference apero - late   Basel @ night     Friday, June 19, 2009 9:30   Manolis Dermitzakis (University of Geneva, Switzerland) Population genetics and genomics of human gene expression 10:00   Laurent Excoffier (SIB & University of Bern, Switzerland) Evolution during range expansions 10:30   Coffee Break 11:00   Eske Willerslev (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Retrieval of ancient DNA from fossil remains 11:30   Daniel E. Platt (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Centre, USA) Searching for Signals of Past Migrations: Phoenician Expansion 12:00   Lunch break 14:00   Winner of the SIB - best graduate paper 14:30   Winner of the SIB - young Bioinformatician Award 15:00   Richard E. Lenski (Michigan State University, USA) Dynamics of Phenotypic and Genomic Evolution During a 40,000-Generation Experiment with E. coli 15:30   Closing Keynote Lecture: Eugene V. Koonin (NCBI, Bethesda, MD, USA) Universals of genomic and phenomic evolution 16:30   Conference Closing Remarks 16:45   End of Conference

 

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Program Committee 2009:

• Torsten Schwede (SIB & Biozentrum University of Basel)
• Manuel Peitsch (SIB)
• Amos Bairoch (SIB & University of Geneva)
• Marc Robinson Rechavi (SIB & University of Lausanne)
• Laurent Excoffier (SIB & University of Bern)
• Nicolas Salamin (SIB & University of Lausanne)
• Erik van Nimwegen (SIB & Biozentrum University of Basel)