PROGRAM 12th DrosEU workshop, Belgrade 13th and 14th of June 2022

June 13th (Day 1):

 

Zoom Meeting link:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87660194496?pwd=TEJ1cTVPZXhRY0d6WWdTdTZ1bkltQT09

Meeting ID: 876 6019 4496                          Passcode: 187182

 

9:00–9:30: Welcome – Marina Stamenkovic-Radak

                    Brief introductions, Agenda overview – Pepi González & Thomas Flatt

9:30–10:30: Phenotyping Working Group session I. – Esra Durmaz Mitchell

10:30–11:00: Coffee break

11:00–12:00: Phenotyping Working Group session II

12:00–13:30: Lunch break

13:30–15:00: Phenotyping Working Group session III

15:00–15:30: Short talks:

  • Alan Bergland, University of Virginia, USA (online) – Seasonally varying selection drives supergene-based adaptation in overwintering Drosophila

15:30–16:00: Coffee break

16:00–17:00: Short talks:

  • Dragana Protic, University of Belgrade, School of Medicine – Drosophila as a model for understanding and treatment of Fragile X syndrome
  • Slobodan Davidovic, University of Belgrade, IBISS – Anthropogenic effect on genetic diversity in feral and managed honey bees in Serbian populations

17:00–17:15: Citizen Science Project follow-up – Pepi González

17:15–19:00: Free time

19:00: Conference dinner – Teatroteka
19 Gospodar Jevremova Street. The cost is 20 euros per person.

June 14th (Day 2):

 

Zoom Meeting link:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82093392262?pwd=TDArc1Jva3ZDNU0waHJQc1JzVjdUZz09

Meeting ID: 820 9339 2262                          Passcode: 027256

 

9:00–9:50: Sampling Working Group – Maaria Kankare (melanogaster), Cristina Vieira (simulans), Marina Stamenković-Radak (obscura group)

9:50–10:00: Drosophila melanogaster South American project – Alex Sanchez-Gracia (University of Barcelona) and Carlos Arboleda (Colombia National University)

10:00–10:30: Drosophila suzukii project – Nicolas Rode, CBGP (Biological Center for Population Management, Montpellier, France)

10:30–11:00: Coffee break

11:00–12:00: Short talks:

  • Louise Camus (INRAE, France) – Predicting the invasive potential of a species with genomic data: a case study on the crop pest Drosophila suzukii
  • Mathieu Gautier (INRAE, France, online) – Fast detection and quantification of contaminant DNA in raw sequence data using k-mer screening: application to presumably D. suzukii public sequences

12:00–13:30: Lunch break

13:30–16:00: Short talks:

  • Anna Grandchamp (Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity, University of Münster, Germany) – De novo gene emergence: A large-scale investigation of the enabling mutations
  • Miriam Merenciano (UCBL, Lyon, France) – Study of sex gap longevity in Drosophila species
  • Michael Ritchie (University of St Andrews, UK, online) – Looking for evidence of antagonistic selection in a domestic fly population, or, is Kirkpatrick in my kitchen?
  • Maria Bogaerts-Marquez (IBE, CBGP) – Environmental variables driving adaptation in natural D. melanogaster populations

16:00–16:15: Coffee break

16:15–17:15: The future work of DrosEU – Pepi González & Thomas Flatt
                     General DrosEU business – Pepi González & Thomas Flatt

17:15: End of the meeting
          Departure, free time & self-organized dinner

Big thanks to Marina Stamenković Radak and her team for hosting us!