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Naama Barkai
Weizmann Institute of Science
Israel
EMBO Workshop
This conference series has become known for exploring yeasts as models to study questions of general relevance to evolution and ecology. Experts will speak on a range of topics, including evolution theory, ecology, genetics, cell biology, genomics, systems biology, metabolic modeling and engineering.
The focus of this conference will be on comparative and experimental strategies to explore evolutionary questions, from field studies to computer simulations to comparative genomics. Central evolutionary questions will be discussed, using yeast and a range of other species whose biology is well understood and to determine the degree to which that biology is conserved in more distantly related species.
The aim is to move from correlative studies based on comparative work to more causal studies based on broad experimental support. This problem is particularly pressing in the age of cheap and easy sequencing.
Weizmann Institute of Science
Israel
New York University,
USA
University of Pittsburgh
USA
Institute of Genetics & Development of Rennes – CNRS UMR 6290
France
The University of Manchester
UK
Harvard University
USA
Pacific Northwest Research Institute
USA
University of Southern California
USA
University of Wisconsin-Madison
USA
University of Lincoln
UK
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
USA
Tel Aviv University
Israel
Academia Sinica
Taiwan
Université Laval
Canada
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
USA
Chalmers University of Technology
Sweden
University of Minnesota
USA
University of Cambridge
UK
Stanford University
USA
New York University
USA
University of Gothenburg
Sweden
University College Dublin
Ireland
Tel Aviv University
Israel
University of Washington
USA
Academia Sinica
Taiwan
EMBL Heidelberg
Germany
EMBL Heidelberg
Germany
Date: 17 - 20 Oct 2018
Location: EMBL Heidelberg