Program

July 7th (Tuesday)

Centro de Memória Building, Vila do Conde

Mark Kirkpatrick
Chromosome inversions as pre- and postzygotic isolating mechanisms

Carolina Segami — The role of inversions in the reproductive isolation of recently diverged cryptic mouse lemur species
Miniplenary: Ashwini V. Mohan — Genomic rearrangements underlie barriers to recombination in holocentric sedges
Alistair Hockey — Massive genomic flux and rapid differentiation in a young autogamous diploid
Léa Nicolas — Evolutionary consequences of recombination suppression: the case of a chromosomal inversion in the seaweed fly
Carina Mugal — Population-level PacBio HiFi data enable the investigation of structural variants in the speciation process of two songbirds
Desanka Lazić — A graph-based pangenome of European beech (Fagus sylvatica) reveals the landscape of structural variation across the distribution range

Pierre Barry — Origin and fates of chromosomal inversions in Littorina marine snails
Katie Lotterhos — Comparison of population-genetic vs. read-based calls of inversions in Atlantic cod
Claire Lemaitre — Representation and detection of inversions in pangenome graphs
Mélody Temperville — SVJedi-Tag: a novel method for genotyping large inversions with linked-read data
Jana Wold — The good, the bad, and the complex: Characterizing structural variants using genome graphs
Discussion in break-out rooms
Poster session

Joana Meier
The role of chromosomal rearrangements in speciation

Amin Ghane — Genomic drivers of persimmon adaptive radiation in New Caledonia, a biodiversity hotspot
Guillaume Martin — Unravelling genomic drivers of speciation in Musa through comparison of wild banana ancestor genomes
Simone D’Alessandro — Multiple chromosomal inversions shape the genomic landscape of a marine broadcast spawner
Miniplenary: Océane Mion — Uncovering the role of structural variations in the evolution and adaptation of a devastating fungal pathogen
Heidi Yang — Role of chromosomal inversions in local adaptation in California endemic oak
Laure Segurel — Adaptation of the bedbug Cimex lectularius to a new (human) host
Hugo Corval — A 38-Mb region underlies an ancient climate-linked inversion in barn owls
Malin Hasselgren — Structural variation in Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus)

Jessica Purcell — The role of gene flux in the evolutionary trajectory of supergenes
Vitor Sudbrack — The effect of supergene evolution on the structure and stability of the G-matrix
Trevor Krabbenhoft — Structural variants and the genetic diversity–population viability paradox
Eleftherios Darzentas — The role of gene Copy Number Variations (gCNVs) in the local adaptation of major European tree species
Pascal Milesi — Showcase of the rCNV framework for calling gene copy number variations from SNP data
Discussion in break-out rooms
Vila do Conde Walking City Tour

Jeffrey Groh
Ancient rhythms of sex alternation in flowering plants

Dominique Hicks — Macro-evolutionary perspectives on a large chromosomal rearrangement underlying alternative life histories in seaweed flies
Eva Koch — The role of a sex chromosome–autosome fusion in the evolution of live-bearing and speciation in the common lizard
Nikolas Vellnow — Sex-linked structural variation and paralogy shape genomic diversity in a songbird
Miniplenary: Katarina Stuart — Structural variants and transposable elements under weakened selection in invasive populations
Paul Battlay — Local PCA reveals widespread structural variation across the tree of life
Caitlin Price — Uncovering the complex genomic history of Araneoidea and the role of transposable elements in intrachromosomal rearrangements
Anna-Sophie Fiston-Lavier — Exploring transposable element dynamics in human populations using the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium Release 2 dataset
Janina Rinke — Transposable element islands at the interface of 3D genome architecture and karyotype evolution in ants

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