Barcelona April 15th and 16th, 8th DrosEU Workshop

Ramon y Cajal room, Plaça Charles Darwin. PRBB building, 08003 Barcelona

Monday, 15th April 2019 

9:00am – 9:30am WELCOME

Logistics, workshop objectives, and round-table introductions. 

Pepi González, Thomas Flatt, Martin Kapun

9:30am  – 10:30am CLINAL AND SEASONAL WORKING GROUP (I)

Thomas Flatt. University of Fribourg.

10:30am – 11:00am Coffee break

11:00am – 12:00pm CLINAL AND SEASONAL WORKING GROUP (II)

Thomas Flatt. University of Fribourg.

12:00pm – 12:30pm INVITED TALK

ParusEU? a continental-scale analysis of genomic variation in a songbird.

Lewis Spurgin. School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, and Edward Grey Institute, University of Oxford.

12:45pm – 2:00pm Lunch 

2:00pm – 3:30pm WORKING GROUPS UPDATES

Microbiome Working Group

Fabian Staubach. University of Fribourg.

Transcriptomics Working Group

Nico Posnien. Georg-August-University Göttingen.

Transposable elements and D. simulans Working Groups

Cristina Vieira. University Lyon 1. Pepi Gónzalez. Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-UPF)

Obscura Working Group

Marina Stamenković-Radak. University of Belgrade.

D. suzukii Working Group

Omar Rota-Stabelli. Fondazione Edmund Mach.

3:30pm – 4:00pm Coffee break

4:00pm – 6:00pm PHENOTYPING WORKING GROUP

Jorge Vieira. Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular (IBMC), and Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde (I3S), University of Porto.

6:00pm Glass of cava at the PRBB Auditorium terrace

8:00 pm Dinner at Cal Papi restaurant 

Address: Carrer de l’Atlàntida, 65, 08003 Barcelona.

Tuesday, 16th April 2019

9:30am – 11:00am SHORT TALKS BY DrosEU MEMBERS (I)

Natural variation of D.melanogaster retinal mosaic. Daniel Vasiliauskas. Institut des neurosciences Paris-Saclay 

Local adaptation and plasticity of critical fertility limits. Rhonda Snook. Stockholm University.

Adaptation studies with D. montana – from genomes to gene scissors. Maaria Kankare. University of Jyväskylä.

Micro-Evo-Devo: Morphology meets Genomics. Nico Posnien. Georg-August-University Göttingen.

11:00am – 11:20am Coffee break

11.20am – 12:20pm SHORT TALKS BY DrosEU MEMBERS (II)

Functional analysis of naturally occurring polymorhisms located in the regulatory regions of genes encoding neuronal transcription factors. Elena Pasyukova. Institute of Molecular Genetics of Russian Academy of Sciences.

Ecological factors of the invasive success of D. suzukii. Patricia Gibert. CNRS.

Reconstructing the history of transposable element invasions. Robert Kofler. Institute of Population Genetics VetMedUni.

12:20pm – 12:35pm COLLECTION EFFORTS 

Maaria Kankare. University of Jyväskylä.

12:35am – 2:00pm Lunch 

2:00pm – 5:00pm DrosEU GENERAL

White paper/DEST (DrosEU+DrosRTEC)

Turku workshop

Future of sequencing efforts: phased sequencing

Funding

Outreach. Roberto Torres. Adaptive Science Outreach.

8:00 pm Dinner at Andorra restaurant 

Address: Carrer de Sant Pere Més Alt, 74, 08003 Barcelona