Program 61st Phylogenetic Symposium, Göttingen, “Reticulate Evolution”

Friday, November 22

18:00 – 22:00 Arrival and registration
19:30 Ice Breaker (Foyer, Untere Karspüle 2, 37073 Göttingen)

Saturday, November 23
(Lecture hall MN34, Untere Karspüle 2, 37073 Göttingen)

08:30 – 08:45 Welcome address by Rolf Daniel (Dean of the Faculty for Biology and Psychology, University of Göttingen)
08:45 – 09:00 Introduction to the Phylogenetic Symposium (Christoph Bleidorn, Elvira Hörandl)

09:00 – 10:00 Andrew Watson (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France). Chimeric genes in chimeric genomes

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 – 11:30 Pamela S. Soltis (University of Florida, USA). Polyploidy and Plant Diversification
11:30 – 12:30 Christian Roos, Dietmar Zinner (German Primate Center, Göttingen, Germany). Hybridization and introgression in primates

12.30 – 14.00 Open lunch

14.00 – 15:00 Marta Barluenga (Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales Madrid, Spain). Hybrid speciation in cichlid fish
15:00 – 16:00 Judith Fehrer (The Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic). Reticulate evolution at different levels in plants: detection and interpretation

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 – 17:30 Mathilde Cordellier (University of Hamburg, Germany). Ecological genomics in Daphnia: travelling in space and time
17:30 – 18:30 Bengt Oxelman (University of Gothenburg, Sweden). Species delimitation and phylogenetics of allopolyploids under the multispecies coalescent model

18:30 – 19:30 Poster session

20:00 – Conference dinner in the restaurant “Zum Szültenbürger”

Sunday, November 24
(Lecture hall MN34, Untere Karspüle 2, 37073 Göttingen)

09:00 – 10:00 Christoph Oberprieler (University of Regensburg, Germany). Gordian Networks - The dark arts of phylogenetics and species delimitation in polyploid complexes
10:00 – 11:00 Alexander Suh (Uppsala University, Sweden). Reconciling the phylogeny of birds with trees and networks

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 – 12:30 Summary and general discussion of presented topics (Christoph Bleidorn, Elvira Hörandl)

12.30 – 12.40 Farewell (Christoph Bleidorn, Elvira Hörandl)

13.00 – Optional: guided tour through the Old Botanical Garden


Posters:

Bahrul, U.F., Castro, C., Hadacek, F., Hörandl, E. Ploidy-dependent effects of light stress either on photosynthetic efficiency and the mode of reproduction in the Ranunculus auricomus complex

Buschbom, J. Assignment to species and geographic origin in hybridizing species complexes: a conceptual framework employing genomic ancestry blocks

Herklotz V., Ritz C.M., Kovařík A., Lunerová J., Vozárová R., Laudien, M. Does restricted recombination influence genome evolution in polyploid dogroses?

Holzmeyer, L., Hauenschild, F., Mabberley, D.J., Muellner-Riehl, A.N. Confirmation of the hypothesized polyphyly of Dysoxylum (Meliaceae)

Koenen, E.J.M., Ojeda, D.I., Bakker, F.T., Wieringa, J.J., Kidner, C., Hardy, O.J., Pennington, R.T., Herendeen, P.S., Bruneau, A., Hughes, C.E. The origin of the legumes is a complex paleopolyploid phylogenomic tangle closely associated with the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction event

Paule, J. Phylogenomic insights into the Fascicularia-Ochagavia group (Bromelioideae, Bromeliaceae)

Rempe, U. Reticulation of phylogenetic graphs may be the result of parallel or convergent evolution

Spöri, Y., Flot, J.F. HaplowebMaker: an open-source web tool to turn FASTA alignments into haplowebs

Trede, F. Nuclear genetic diversity of geladas (Theropithecus gelada)

Tarieiev, A.S., Gailing, O., Krutovsky, K.V. Resolving reticulate phylogeny of birch (Betula L.) using both nucleotide sequence and secondary structure of highly polymorphic ITS1 and ITS2 barcoding loci