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PGG50 Cambridge Index Meeting Information 2 Programme Schedule – Thursday morning 4 Programme Schedule – Thursday early afternoon 5 Programme Schedule – Thursday late afternoon 6 Programme Schedule – Friday morning 7 Programme Schedule – Friday early afternoon 8 Programme Schedule – Friday late afternoon 9 Programme Schedule – Saturday morning 10 Plenary Talks 11 Highlighted Talks 13 Heredity Special Issue 14 Posters 16 Participants 18 Churchill College map 21 St John’s College map 22 Cambridge map 23 1 Meeting Information Registration Registration opens at 4pm on Wednesday 4th January in the main concourse at Churchill College. There will be a self-service buffet served from 17:45 to 21:00 in the main dining hall. B&B Accommodation For those who have accommodation included in their registration fee, check-in is from 2pm on Wednesday 4th January at the Porters’ Lodge. Breakfast will be served in the main dining hall from 07:30 – 09:30 each morning. Check out is no later than 10:00 on Saturday 7th. Storage will be provided for your luggage after check out, please ask at the Porters’ Lodge for more details. Meals and Refreshments Lunch, dinner and refreshment times are detailed on the programme schedule. Lunch and dinner are served in the main dining hall, coffee and tea are served in the Buttery. The bar will be open until 1am every evening and real ale will be available (while stocks last!). Conference Dinner The Conference Dinner will be held at St John’s College on Friday 6th. Pre-dinner drinks will be served at 18:30 in the Old Divinity School on St Johns Street. The dinner will be served in the main Hall at 19:15 followed by a Ceilidh in the Fisher Building at 21:30. Locations are marked on the map on page 22. St John’s College is approXimately a 20 minute walk/5 minute taXi journey from Churchill College. Talks The plenary talks will take place in the Wolfson Hall, and contributed sessions will take place in the Wolfson Hall, Jack Colville Hall and Fellows’ Dining Room. Plenary talks will last for 50 minutes, including questions. Contributed talk slots each last for 20 minutes, allowing 15 minutes of presentation, 4 minutes of questions, and 1 minute to allow people to change rooms. We ask that the last speaker in each session chairs the four talks Before them, and we request that chairs rigorously enforce the timings. They will be aided in this by the PopGroup volunteers. Windows PCs will be available for PowerPoint and pdf presentations – please upload your talk directly onto the PC in the break before. An AV Technician will be present in each room to assist. Posters Posters should be size A0 in portrait orientation, and the boards will be located in the main concourse near to the bar area. Please find your poster number on pages 16 & 17, and attach your poster to the board with your number on it. Please put your poster up as soon as you arrive at the meeting, and take it down after the end of the last talk on Saturday. There will be an official poster session on Thursday evening (from 17:45) during which you should stand near to your poster. Posters will also be available for viewing during registration (the bar will be open), and during coffee and lunch. Please make use of the opportunity to look at them! Drinks are sponsored by Nature Ecology & Evolution. Poster/talk prizes and voting This year there will be two prizes awarded: the best student poster and the best student talk. The prizes have been generously sponsored by Nature Ecology and Evolution, and will be handed out at the Conference Dinner, before the Ceilidh. Following the tradition set in recent years, everyone will have an opportunity to vote for the winners. Student talks are marked (S). Each person will vote once in each competition – and you will be given a voting slip in your registration bag. Please remember to hand-in your votes for students and posters on Friday. 2 Meeting Information Social media and photographs We do not have a strong social media policy. EXpect a few people to tweet your talk (#PGG50) if they enjoy it, and some people might want to photograph your poster. If you don’t want them to do this, just tell them at the start of your talk, or put a note on your poster board. Business meeting There will be a business meeting on Friday, at the end of the lunch break (13:10, in the Fellows’ Dining Room). This meeting will discuss the make-up and management of future Population Genetics Group meetings, and everyone is encouraged to attend. Even if you don’t plan to organise Pop Group, it’s worth coming along to hear what people have to say. Parking Parking is available at Churchill College at no extra charge. Please see the map on page 21 for locations. Games Room The JCR Games Room is situated at the end of the main concourse, neXt to the Buttery, and will be available to all. PopGroup50 has Been organised By: Organising Committee: Volunteers: Chris Jiggins Tariq Desai Frank Jiggins Joe Hanly John Welch Helen Legget Aylwyn Scally Ana Pinharanda Andrea Manica Kathy Darragh Rebecca Richmond-Smith Conference Secretary: Casper Lumby Poppy Roth 3 50th Population Genetics Group 2017 Thursday 5th January - Morning Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 The Wolfson Hall Jock Colville Hall Fellows' Dining Room 08:50 - 09:00 Welcome and information Introduction to PopGroup 50 by 09:00 - 09:10 Professor John Brookfield - - 09:10 - 10:00 Plenary: Nancy Moran Microbiome evolution in social bees 10:00 - 10:40 Coffee 10:40 - 11:00 Simon H. Martin Marina Rafajlovic Toby Fountain Exploring evolutionary relationships across A universal mechanism generating clusters Predictable allele frequency changes due to the genome using topology weighting of differentiated loci during divergence-with- habitat fragmentation in the Glanville migration fritillary butterfly 11:00 - 11:20 Markus Möst Amy Slender (S) F. Gözde Cilingir (S) Selection and gene flow at major colour Barriers to arid zone gene flow create Can applied conservation genomics help to pattern loci in mimetic Heliconius butterflies genetic divergence in parapatric subspecies save the critically endangered Burmese roofed turtle (Batagur trivittata) in the wild? 11:20 - 11:40 Emma Curran (S) Harald Ringbauer (S) Jinliang Wang The genetic basis of convergent iridescent Estimating barriers to gene flow from Genetic recapture: a general framework for colouration in Heliconius butterflies distorted isolation by distance patterns understanding wild population demography 11:40 - 12:00 Venkat Talla (S) Hannes Svardal Chris Clarkson Speciation genomics in cryptic European Hybridisation and gene flow in the Lake The Anopheles gambiae 1000 Genomes wood-white butterflies. Malawi cichlid adaptive radiation – Locating Project: population genomics and vector introgression and non-tree-like ancestry on control a large phylogeny 12:00 - 12:20 John Davey Susana Freitas (S) Alexander Esin (S) No evidence for a role for inversions in Deep branch gene flow in an hybridization The genetic basis of erythrocyte sickling in maintaining species barriers between rich speciation process deer Heliconius melpomene and Heliconius cydno 12:20 - 13:50 Lunch 4 50th Population Genetics Group 2017 Thursday 5th January - Early afternoon Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 The Wolfson Hall Jock Colville Hall Fellows' Dining Room 13:50 - 14:10 Susana Coelho Maulik Upadhyay (S) Bjarki Eldon UV sex chromosome evolution in seaweeds Genetic differentiation of primitive cattle Rapid adaptation in highly fecund breeds illustrate aurochs (Bos primigenius) populations admixture 14:10 - 14:30 J. Mark Cock Himani Sachdeva Denis Roze Genetic regulators of life cycle transitions in Evolution of Assortative Mating in a Effects of interference between selected loci the brown alga Ectocarpus Polygenic Trait Model of Speciation with in partially selfing populations Gene Flow 14:30 - 14:50 Berrit Kiehl (S) Hannes Becher (S) Jenny James (S) Sperm Mediated Epigenetic Effects in The history of introgression across a hybrid Genetic diversity and the efficiency of Zebrafish (Danio rerio). zone inferred from two transcriptomes selection 14:50 - 15:10 Matthew Hartfield Leslie Turner Jörn Frederik Gerchen (S) The Facultative Sex Coalescent with Do hybrid sterility loci show distinctive Y-chromosome introgression among species Recombination and Gene Conversion signatures in the genomic landscape of and cytotypes of a dioecious herb differentiation between house mouse subspecies? 15:10 - 15:30 Darren J. Parker Marius Wenzel Gemma Murray What happens to sex-biased gene Towards identifying the genomic basis of pre-Passenger pigeon genomes reveal the cost expression following a transition to zygotic reproductive isolation in a sympatric of natural selection for a large population asexuality? species complex of intertidal isopods (Jaera albifrons) 15:30 - 16:10 Coffee 5 50th Population Genetics Group 2017 Thursday 5th January - Late afternoon Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 The Wolfson Hall Jock Colville Hall Fellows' Dining Room 16:10 - 16:30 Karl Phillips Jerome Kelleher Jeanne Tonnabel Do novel immune alleles give hosts an Processing variant data for millions of Influence of male-male competition on the advantage over local parasites? samples evolution of sexual dimorphism in a wind-pollinated herb 16:30 - 16:50 Joel M. Alves Jack Kamm Takeshi Kawakami Exomes of historical and modern rabbit momi2: A new method to compute the joint Patterns of linkage disequilibrium in populations reveal parallel adaptation to sample frequency spectrum of multiple flycatcher genomes clarify the causes and myxoma virus across two continents populations consequences of fine-scale recombination rate variation in birds 16:50 - 17:10 Beth Gibson (S) Thomas Taus (S) Alison Wright Investigating the relationship between the Quantifying selection with Pool-seq time Role of sexual selection in guppy sex substitution rate and genome size of series data chromosome formation bacteria.
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