Plenary talks on July 29 at Miyako Messe
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9:00- 9:30 SMBE Business meeting
9:30- 9:45 Welcome to SMBE 2011 at Kyoto by SMBE2011 Organizing Committees
9:45-10:45 Nei Lecture
Ken Wolfe, SMBE President
"Yeast genome evolution and the aftermath of polyploidization"
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10:45-11:35 Plenary Talk 1
Manolo Gouy, CNRS, Lyon
"From non-homogeneous evolutionary models to molecular thermometers"
Chair: Hiroshi Akashi
11:35-12:25 Plenary Talk 2
Daniel Hartl, Harvard University and NIG
"Evolutionary Epigenetics of the Y chromosome of Drosophila"
Chair: Etsuko Moriyama
Lunch break (12:25-14:20)
14:20-15:10 Plenary Talk 3
Shoji Kawamura, University of Tokyo
"Evolutionary study of vertebrate color vision: from fish transgenesis to field primatology, and to human variation"
Chair: Shintaroh Ueda
15:10-16:00 Plenary Talk 4
Nancy Moran, Yale University
"Back to Basics: Drastic genome reduction in symbiotic bacteria"
Chair: Yoko Satta
Coffee break (16:00-16:30)
16:30-18:30 Walter Fitch Student Symposium
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19:00-21:00 SMBE Banquet with special lecture
Chung-I Wu, University of Chicago
"Evolution of cells in multi-cellular organisms and the genomics of cancers"
9:00- 9:30 SMBE Business meeting
9:30- 9:45 Welcome to SMBE 2011 at Kyoto by SMBE2011 Organizing Committees
9:45-10:45 Nei Lecture
Ken Wolfe, SMBE President"Yeast genome evolution and the aftermath of polyploidization"
==> Download Abstracts of Plenary Talks New; July 25
10:45-11:35 Plenary Talk 1
Manolo Gouy, CNRS, Lyon"From non-homogeneous evolutionary models to molecular thermometers"
Chair: Hiroshi Akashi
11:35-12:25 Plenary Talk 2
Daniel Hartl, Harvard University and NIG"Evolutionary Epigenetics of the Y chromosome of Drosophila"
Chair: Etsuko Moriyama
Lunch break (12:25-14:20)
14:20-15:10 Plenary Talk 3
Shoji Kawamura, University of Tokyo"Evolutionary study of vertebrate color vision: from fish transgenesis to field primatology, and to human variation"
Chair: Shintaroh Ueda
15:10-16:00 Plenary Talk 4
Nancy Moran, Yale University"Back to Basics: Drastic genome reduction in symbiotic bacteria"
Chair: Yoko Satta
Coffee break (16:00-16:30)
16:30-18:30 Walter Fitch Student Symposium
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- 16:30-16:45 Wenfeng Qian "Genome-wide quantification of antagonistic pleiotropy in yeast"
- 16:45-17:00 Nicholas Casewell "Reconsidering the origin of venom in squamates"
- 17:00-17:15 Heather A. Flores "Evolutionary analysis of the bag of marbles gene elucidates both intraspecific function and the consequences of interspecific divergence"
- 17:15-17:30 Kerry Geiler-Samerotte"The selective cost of misfolded protein toxicity and a concomitant evolutionary adaptation"
- 17:30-17:45 Hyunchul Kim "Protein evolvability is controlled by transcription-associated mutagenesis responding to the degree of nutritional stress"
- 17:45-18:00 Sara J. Hanson "Genome and transcriptome analysis of sexual and asexual reproduction in monogonont rotifers"
- 18:00-18:15 Sung Chun "Hitchhiking regions are enriched with deleterious mutations within the human genome"
- 18:15-18:30 Jessica Crisci "On characterizing adaptive events unique to modern humans"
19:00-21:00 SMBE Banquet with special lecture
Chung-I Wu, University of Chicago"Evolution of cells in multi-cellular organisms and the genomics of cancers"