5th DrosEU workshop at IGB (Lisbon)

On the 14th and 15th, November 2016 the 5th DrosEU workshop took place at the Institute Gulbenkian de Ciência in Lisbon (Portugal) hosted by Elio Sucena.

During this workshop, several topics where assessed, such us quality of the sequencing data from the 2015 fly samples, and an overview of the 2016 collections. The working groups also shared the work they have been doing with all of the consortium members.

It was also announced that the next DrosEU workshop will be held during the 16th Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, 20-25 August 2017; Groningen, The Netherlands.

PROGRAM

Monday, 14 November 2016

09:00 am         Welcome & brief round of introductions. Elio Sucena

09:05 am         Meeting agenda overview. Main objective: work on general paper. Pepi González

09:10 am         Recent DrosEU activities

  • NGXBio sequencing data. (Thomas Flatt &) Gabriele Reich (20′)
  • Fly collections 2016. Maaria Kankare (5′)

09:30 am         Brief updates from the different working groups (WGs)

  • Clinal WG. Martin Kapun & Thomas Flatt (10′)
  • Microbiota/symbiont WG. Omar Rota-Stabelli (20′)
  • TE WG. Cristina Vieira & José Luis Villanueva (15′)
  • general discussion

10:30 am        Coffee break

11:00 am         Progress report from “general paper” working group. Bioinformatics issues. Update on mapping, SNP calling and benchmarking; consequences for general paper and other WGs. Martin Kapun and Maite Barrón

12:00 pm        Lunch break

02:00 pm         General paper. Work on drafting parts of general paper. Everyone (approx. 4 hrs)

06:30 pm         Departure for dinner by train, stroll through the city to restaurant

08:00 pm         Conference dinner

Tuesday, 15 November 2016

09:00 am         General paper. Work on drafting parts of general paper. Everyone (approx. 1.5 hrs)

10:30 am        Coffee break

11:00 am         General paper. Work on drafting parts of general paper. Everyone (approx. 1 hr)

12:00 pm        Lunch break (CIG seminar by Lars Jansen, 12-13, for those who are interested)

02:00 pm         DrosEU management & organization

  • ESEB STN funds. Mike Ritchie & Andrea Betancourt (5′)
  • DrosEU funding: COST (Pepi González), ITN (Eran Tauber) (20′)
  • Rules of consortium; data embargo, etc. Thomas Flatt (20′)
  • Material transfer agreements. Pepi González (5′)
  • Consortium website & outreach (citizen science project). Pepi González (15′)
  • Next DrosEU workshop(s). Thomas Flatt (5′)

03:30 pm         General paper. Work on drafting parts of general paper. Everyone (approx. 3 hrs)

06:30 pm         End of day 2