Detlef Weigel
Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology,
Germany
Overview
Symposium Overview
We are at the dawn of a new era of biology where we will start to understand how organisms function together and react or adapt to changes at different molecular levels. This includes the multitude of stresses that organisms are exposed to, from malnutrition and adverse climate events to many other biological, chemical and physical insults. Progress in biological analyses at both a single scale and across scales, have allowed us to further understand organisms in the context of dynamic environments. These can be environments which are changed by disease, commensal cohabitation or competition, as well as abiotic factors. With the molecular understanding we already have at the cellular and organismal levels, and new tools and quantitative approaches, this symposium will address how genotype and the environment bring about phenotypes at the population level.
Session Topics
- Small-scale evolutionary experiments: model organisms
- Small-scale evolutionary experiments: model ecosystems
- Effects of environmental variation and stress
- Adaptive responses to environmental variation
- Population level genome changes in nature
- Preparing for the future
Speakers and Organisers
Keynote Speaker
Speakers
Yinon Moise Bar-On
Weizmann Institute of Science,
Israel
Nick Barton
Institute of Science and Technology Austria,
Austria
Judith Berman
Tel Aviv University,
Israel
Peer Bork
EMBL Heidelberg,
Germany
Chris Bowler
Institut de Biologie de l’École Normale Supérieure,
France
Virginie Courtier-Orgogozo
Institut Jacques Monod,
France
Silvia De Monte
Institut de Biologie de l’École Normale Supérieure,
France
Caroline Dean
John Innes Centre,
UK
Knut Drescher
Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology,
Germany
Maitreya Dunham
University of Washington,
USA
Josefa González
Institute of Evolutionary Biology,
Spain
Isabel Gordo
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência,
Portugal
Anjali Goswami
The Natural History Museum,
UK
Evelyn Houliston
Villefranche-sur-mer Developmental Biology Laboratory,
France
Chris Jiggins
University of Cambridge,
UK
Anna-Liisa Laine
University of Zurich,
Switzerland
Harmit Malik
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center,
USA
Hélène Morlon
Institut de Biologie de l’École Normale Supérieure,
France
Paul Rainey
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology,
Germany
Frédéric Thomas
The Institute of Research for Development in Vietnam,
France
Lindsay Turnbull
University of Oxford,
UK
Scientific Organiser
Edith Heard
EMBL Heidelberg,
Germany
Maria Leptin
EMBO, Germany
Conference Organiser
Maria Mercedes Bacadare Goitia
EMBL Heidelberg
Germany
Programme
Date: 1 - 4 Mar 2020
Location: EMBL Heidelberg