Experimental Approaches to Evolution and Ecology Using Yeast and Other Model Systems

Overview

Conference Overview

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.

Speakers

Naama Barkai

Weizmann Institute of Science

Israel

Jef Boeke

New York University,

USA

Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis

University of Pittsburgh

USA

Damien Coudreuse

Institute of Genetics & Development of Rennes – CNRS UMR 6290

France

Daniela Delneri

The University of Manchester

UK

Michael Desai

Harvard University

USA

Aimée M. Dudley

Pacific Northwest Research Institute

USA

Ian Ehrenreich

University of Southern California

USA

Audrey Gasch

University of Wisconsin-Madison

USA

Mat Goddard

University of Lincoln

UK

Jeff Gore

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

USA

Lilach Hadany

Tel Aviv University

Israel

Yen-Ping Hsueh

Academia Sinica

Taiwan

Christian Landry

Université Laval

Canada

Harmit Malik

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

USA

Jens Nielsen

Chalmers University of Technology

Sweden

Kirsten Nielsen

University of Minnesota

USA

Markus Ralser

University of Cambridge

UK

Gavin Sherlock

Stanford University

USA

Mark Siegal

New York University

USA

Jonas Warringer

University of Gothenburg

Sweden

Kenneth Wolfe

University College Dublin

Ireland

Scientific Organisers

Judith Berman

Tel Aviv University

Israel

Maitreya Dunham

University of Washington

USA

Jun-Yi Leu

Academia Sinica

Taiwan

Kiran Patil

EMBL Heidelberg

Germany

Conference Organisers

Lea Hohmann

EMBL Heidelberg

Germany

Programme