ISEMPH 2017 Program

Time	Title	Speaker	Room
08.00-09.00	Coffee and registration		Fountain Patio
09.00-09.45	Keynote 3: Social immunity: protecting the colony against disease	Cremer, Sylvia Intro: Charles Nunn	Blue room

Session 1A: Immune system

Chair: Irina Morozova

Time	Title	Speaker	Room
10.00-10.15	Evolution of human immunity during last several millennia	Morozova, Irina	Round room
10.15-10.30	Immune priming decreases resistance to early- stage pathogenic infection	Armitage, Sophie	Round room
10.30-10.45	Are autoimmune diseases and the origin of the adaptive immune system linked?	Catania, Francesco	Round room
10.45-11.00	Are seasonal and multiannual infectious disease dynamics determined by human aggregation? A long-term study in historical Finns	Briga, Michael	Round room

Session 1B: Women’s health

Chair: Alexandra Alvergne

Time	Title	Speaker	Room
10.00-10.15	To wean or not to wean? Extended breastfeeding and infant growth in a deprived and food- insecure agricultural setting	Núñez-de la Mora, Alejandra	Red room
10.15-10.30	Can premenstrual symptoms be used as a cue to an undiagnosed infection? Insights from digital health	Alvergne, Alexandra	Red room
10.30-10.45	Cumulative health risks of preeclampsia exposure in the womb are consistent with an evolutionary interpretation of the etiology of the disorder	Hollegaard, Birgitte	Red room
10.45-11.00	The Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and the Flexible Response Model of Human Reproduction	Corbett, Stephen	Red room

11.00-11.45

Coffee break & Posters

Fountain Patio

Session 2A: Metabolic and cardiovascular diseases

Chair: Corbett, Stephen

Time	Title	Speaker	Room
11.45-12.00	Applications of Evolutionary Biology in Nutrition & Dietetics	Landolin, Chelsea	Round room
12.00-12.15	The French or Mediterranean Paradox and Life History Evolution	Corbett, Stephen	Round room
12.15-12.30	Milder forms of obesity may be a good evolutionary adaptation: ‘Fitness First’ hypothesis’	Parakadavathu, Rakesh	Round room

12.30-12.45	Evolutionary perspectives on Hypertension in African Americans	Kim, Kunil	Round room
12.45-13.00	The Hypertension Pandemic: an Evolutionary Perspective	Rossier, Bernard	Round room

Session 2B: Culture, gender and sexual health

Chair: Benjamin Auerbach

Time	Title	Speaker	Room
11.45-12.00	How similar are women’s hormone profiles from one pregnancy to the next?	Fox, Molly	Red room
12.00-12.15	Care as Human Condition – An Evolutionary Psychology of Sickness and Healing	Steinkopf, Leander	Red room
12.15-12.30	Gender-specific Inequality in pre- and early historic Europe	Koepke, Nikola	Red room
12.30-12.45	Natural selection, mismatch, and differences in female human true pelvis morphology with respect to age	Auerbach, Benjamin	Red room
12.45-13.00	Behavioural deficiencies: the missing link in our understanding of complex disorders	Watve, Milind	Red room

13.00-14.00	Lunch		Fountain Patio
13.00-14.00	EMPH editorial board	Charles Nunn	Round Room
14.00-14.45	Keynote 4: The evolution of sex-specific virulence in infectious diseases	Ubeda, Francisco Intro: Joe Alcock	Blue room
14.45-15.15	Talk by George C Williams Prize winner: Evolutionary perspectives on postnatal depression	Myers, Sarah Intro: Randolph Nesse	Blue room
15.15-15.45	Talk by Gilbert Omenn Prize winner: More effective drugs lead to harder selective sweeps in the evolution of drug resistance in HIV-1	Feder, Alison Intro: Gillian Bentley	Blue room

15.45-16.30

Coffee break & Posters

Session 3A: Pathogens

Chair: Michelle Blyth

Time	Title	Speaker	Room
16.30-16.45	Evolutionary tradeoff theory of virulence and vector borne diseases	Pandey	Round room

16.45-17.00	Ancient Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex genomes from the Americas	Stone, Anne	Round room
17.00-17.15	Decreasing unnecessary antibiotic use and associated harms by incorporating evolutionary perspectives into the diagnostic criteria for sepsis.	Blyth, Michelle	Round room
17.15-17.30	Evolution of iron resistance in Escherichia coli	Graves, Joseph	Round room
17.30-17.45	Optimal virulence in a macroparasite, the cestode Schistocephalus solidus in its specific intermediate host, the three-spined stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus	Scharsack, Joern	Round room

Session 3B: Cognition and aging

Chair: Nicole Bender

Time	Title	Speaker	Room
16.30-16.45	The influence of omega-3 fatty acids on the development of human cognition: systematic review and meta-analysis	Bender, Nicole	Red room
16.45-17.00	Infeering clonal mutations from in silico model of intratumour heterogeneity	Opasic, Luka	Red room
17.00-17.15	Fitness-Reducing Cis- and Retrograde Trans- Generational Extended Phenotypes in Association with Autism	Greenspan, Neil	Red room
17.15-17.30	The genomic basis of experimental evolution of aging in Drosophila: how individual SNPs affect lifespan	Hoedjes, Katja	Red room
17.30-17.45	Intercellular Competition and the Inevitability of Multicellular Aging	Nelson, Paul	Red room

17.45-18.45	workshop: how to write Clinical Briefs for the journal	Bentley, Gillian & Nunn, Charles	Round room
17.45-18.45	Round table: teaching evolutionary medicine	Frank Rühli (chair), Randolph Nesse, Dan Grunspan, Joachim Kurtz, Patricia Brito, Jon Laman	Lokaal 14

19.00-21.00

ISEMPH Council meeting/dinner

Randolph Nesse

Restaurant Prinsenhof

19.00-

Conference delegates: Noorderzon Festival

downtown

08.00-09.00	Coffee and registration		Fountain Patio
09.00-09.45	Keynote 5: In vivo and in vitro human gut microbiome perturbations	Bork, Peer Intro: Joseph Graves	Blue room

Session 4A: Cancer

Chair: Voskarides Konstantinos

Time	Title	Speaker	Room
10.00-10.15	Is cancer a side effect of evolution? Epidemiological and other evidence	Konstantinos, Voskarides	Room 4
10.15-10.30	Evolutionary Game Theory of Cancer: Harnessing Clonal Selection to Impair Intra- Tumor Cooperation	Archetti, Marco	Room 4
10.30-10.45	The Evolution of Cancer Suppression: Solutions to Peto’s Paradox Revealed by Genomic Analyses of Elephants and Whales	Tollis, Marc	Room 4
10.45-11.00	PISCA: a new phylogenetic method for the reconstruction of somatic evolution using somatic chromosomal alteration data	Mallo, Diego	Room 4

Session 4B: Antibiotic resistance

Chair: Clare Kinnear

Time	Title	Speaker	Room
10.00-10.15	Resistance selection on non-target bacterial populations	Kinnear, Clare	Red room
10.15-10.30	Antibiotic combination efficacy (ACE) network	Barbosa, Camillo	Red room
10.30-10.45	NOD2 influences intestinal resilience and fungal signatures after antibiotic perturbation	Moltzau Anderson, Jacqueline	Red room
10.45-11.00	Phage therapy can restrain antibiotic bloom of multiresistant gut bacteria	Mikonranta, Lauri	Red room

11.00-11.45

Coffee break & Posters

Fountain Patio

Session 5A: Theoretical considerations and animal models

Chair: Elizabeth Uhl

Time	Title	Speaker	Room
11.45-12.00	A Re-Conceptualization of Bacterial Virulence Emphasizing Interactions Among Pathogens of the Same or Different Species	Greenspan, Neil	Room 4
12.00-12.15	Network analysis of common disease identifies shared inherited risk pathways across independent datasets consistent with evolutionary mismatch and trade-offs and a mechanism for disease progression	Buetow, Ken	Room 4
12.15-12.30	Identifying Evolutionary Medicine Core Principles	Grunspan, Dan	Room 4
12.30-12.45	Adding Evolution to Comparative Pathology: Investigating the Unanswered Questions	Uhl, Elizabeth	Room 4
12.45-13.00	Mouse models of human disease: An evolutionary perspective	Perlman, Robert	Room 4

Session 5B: Microbiome

Chair: Joe Alcock

Time	Title	Speaker	Room
11.45-12.00	The microbiome and host resilience	Alcock, Joe	Red room
12.00-12.15	In utero sensitization and induction of tolerance to parasite antigens: Is transplacental immunization a mechanism for the inheritance of immunological strategies?	Blackwell, Aaron	Red room
12.15-12.30	Commensal and pathogenic microbiota and viruses from the oral cavity of deceased Gombe chimpanzees	Ozga, Andrew	Red room
12.30-12.45	Host genetic variation at B4galnt2 influences intestinal microbial ecology and susceptibility to enteric pathogens in house mice	Baines, John	Red room
12.45-13.00	Improved detection of gene-microbe interactions in the mouse skin microbiota using high-resolution QTL mapping of 16S rRNA transcripts	Belheouane, Meriem	Red room

13.00-14.00	Lunch		Fountain Patio
14.00-15.00	Annual ISEMPH Meeting and presentation of the Omenn and Williams Prizes	Randolph Nesse	Blue room

Session 6A: Different topics

Chair: Martin Häusler

Time	Title	Speaker	Room
15.00-15.15	An evolutionary perspective on back problems	Häusler, Martin	Round room
15.15-15.30	Identifying genomic adaptations to rice-based diet in Asian populations	Sazzini, Marco	Round room
15.30-15.45	Evolutionary nephrology: changing vulnerability of the kidney from birth to senescence	Chevalier, Robert	Round room

Session 6B: Theoretical considerations and methodology

Chair: Charles Nunn

Time	Title	Speaker	Room
15.00-15.15	Investigating Human Uniqueness in Relation to Health and Disease Using Phylogenetic Methods	Nunn, Charles	Red room
15.15-15.30	Cliff-edge fitness functions and disease vulnerability	Nesse, Randolph	Red room
15.30-15.45	Meta-analyses of variation: applications in evolutionary medicine and beyond	Nakagawa- Lagisz, Malgorzata	Red room

Session 7A: Genetics

Chair: Alice Ledda

Time	Title	Speaker	Room
15.45-16.00	A formal model of clonal expansion in bacterial population genetics	Ledda, Alice	Red room
16.00-16.15	Analysis of Thousand Genomes data reveals unique genetic architectures, considerations for personalized medicine	Niedbalski, Sara	Red room
16.15-16.30	What is the genetic basis of the variation in susceptibility to infection by parasitoid wasps in Drosophila species?	Arunkumar, Ramesh	Red room

Time	Title	Speaker	Room
15.45-16.30	Round table: What you can do at your university to build the field	Randolph Nesse (chair), Michelle Blyth, John Baines, Alexandra Alvergne, Djuke Veldhuis, Nicole Bender	Round room

16.30-17.30

Move to ESEB Conference Centre

Conference Centre

Sunday, 20 August 2017
17:30-19:00	ESEB Opening session	Room A
	Chair(s): Verhulst, Simon (Groningen, Netherlands)
17:30-17:40	Opening by Leo Beukeboom Leo Beukeboom, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands Opening address by Sibrand Poppema Sibrand Poppema, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands Evolutionary biology and healthy ageing Linda Partridge, MPI for Biology of Ageing, COLOGNE, Germany Welcome reception Foyer
17:40-18:00
18:00-19:00
19.00-22.00
Monday, 21 August 2017
09:00-09:50	Keynote lecture Svante Pääbo	Room A
	Chair(s): Bender, Nicole (Zurich, Switzerland)

10:00-13:10	Symposium 1: Parasite evolution in response to treatment	Room G
	Chair(s): Lion, Sébastien (Montpellier, France)

10:00-10:30 Combination therapy and the evolution of drug resistance Bonhoeffer, Zurich, Switzerland

10:30-11:00 Why study drug resistance evolution in HIV and what have we learned?

Pleuni Pennings, San Francisco, United States of America

11:30-11:50 An evolutionary model to predict the frequency of antibiotic resistance under changing antibiotic use

François Blanquart, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

11:50-12:10 Quantifying the establishment probability of an antibiotic-resistant bacterial strain Helen Alexander, University of Oxford, Oxford, United

12:10-12:30 The role of antibiotic exposure in bacterial adaptation to phages

Flor Inés Arias Sánchez, Institute of Integrative Biology, Zürich, Switzerland

12:30-12:50 Within-host competition and evolution of drug resistance in Plasmodium falciparum malaria

Mary Bushman, Emory University, Atlanta, United States of America

12:50-13:10 The potential of fast and random drug changes to constrain antibiotic resistance evolution

Hinrich Schulenburg, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

10:00-13:10	Symposium 4: Evolution of immune diversity	Room C
	Chair(s): Norman, Paul (United States of America)

10:00-10:30 Evolutionary trade-offs in the adaptive immune system shape genomic diversity of the MHC

Tobias Lenz, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Ploen, Germany

10:30-11:00 HLA Typing in Large Cohorts: Insights for studies of disease Stephen Leslie, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia

11:30-11:50 Immunological memory in natural populations of an insect- variation, selection and evolution

Imroze Khan, NCBS, Bangalore, India

11:50-12:10 Parasites confer a selective advantage on novel MHC variants in guppy fish Radwan, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań,

12:10-12:30 Shared variability in selected innate immune receptors (TLRs) in tit family (Paridae) Martin Těšický, Charles University, Faculty of Science, Prague 2, Czech Republic

12:30-12:50 Is TCR diversity associated with MHC gene copy number? Testing the optimality hypothesis.

Magdalena Migalska, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland

12:50-13:10 Highly polymorphic loci through allelic division of labour: a mathematical model of heterozygote advantage

Mattias Siljestam, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

13.30-14.30

Special ISEMPH & ESEB Connections Lunch Format: Brief scientific speed dating to meet colleagues, followed by a special lunch Host: Simon Velhulst Room 2 (upstairs)

10:00-16:40	Symposium 5: Evolutionary biology of ageing: integrating function and mechanism	Room A
	Chair(s): Verhulst, Simon (Groningen, Netherlands)

10:00-10:30 Evolutionary and Functional Links Between Longevity and Immunity Thomas Flatt, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

10:30-11:00 Incorporating epigenetics into the evolutionary theory of ageing

Russell Bonduriansky, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

11:30-11:50 Sex-differences in lifespan extension and their relevance to the evolutionary biology of aging

Garratt, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States of America

11:50-12:10 Rapid increase in lifespan under increased condition-dependent mortality explained by shifting mutation-selection balance for robustness

Merijn Driessen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands

12:10-12:30 Disentangling the causes and consequences of parental age effects on offspring fitness in humans

Erik Postma, University of Exeter, Penryn, United Kingdom

12:30-12:50 Bearing sons rather than daughters increases mortality and morbidity of present-day mothers

Birgitte Hollegaard, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen Ø, Denmark

12:50-13:10 Good mums die young: artificial selection reveals a trade-off between reproductive investment and survival

Barbara Tschirren, University of Exeter, Penryn, United Kingdom

14:30-14:50 Survival-reproduction trade-offs in long-lived, income breeders Antica Culina, Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Wageningen,

14:50-15:10 Growth rates are associated with lifespan, but not metabolic rate, in a clade of killifishes

Will Sowersby, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

15:10-15:30 The mechanisms of dietary restriction: insight from a combined theoretical and empirical perspective in flies

Mirre Simons, Sheffield, United Kingdom

16:00-16:20 Disease Spread in Age Structured Populations with Maternal Age Effects Jessica Clark, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

16:20-16:40 Does early infection shape the rate of aging? An experimental test with pro- and anti- inflammatory parasites

Gabriele Sorci, CNRS, DIJON, France

10:00-16:40	Symposium 22: Coevolution of hosts and their microbiome	Room B
	Chair(s): Heeb, Philipp (France)

10:00-10:30 On the Origin of Species: From Genes to Holobionts

Seth Bordenstein, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, United States of America

10:30-11:00 From plant to plant-holobiont, a revolution

Vandenkoornhuyse, Université de Rennes 1, CNRS, Rennes, France

11:30-11:50 Unraveling the processes shaping mammalian gut microbiomes over evolutionary time

Mathieu Groussin, MIT, Cambridge, United States of America

11:50-12:10 Biodiversity of the human gut microbiome: influence of diet and parasitism Laure Segurel, CNRS, Paris, France

12:10-12:30 Evolution of hosts, parasites and their microbiomes

Nolwenn Dheilly, Stony brook University, Stony Brook, United States of America

12:30-12:50 The role of gut microorganisms in dietary niche expansion

Ostaizka Aizpurua, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

12:50-13:10 Experimental evolution of reduced dependence on gut microbiota for development under nutritional stress

Tadeusz Kawecki, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

14:30-14:50 Host plant diet affects gut microbial community composition across development in monarch butterflies

Erica Harris, Emory University, Atlanta, United States of America

14:50-15:10 Beyond nutrition: host-microbiota interactions drive shifts in the behavioural phenotypes of cockroaches

Thorben Sieksmeyer, Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany

15:10-15:30 Rapid experimental evolution of host-microbial associations in a novel environment Aparna Agarwal, National Centre for biological Sciences, Bangalore, India

16:00-16:20 Host- defensive mutualist coevolution results in specificity of enhanced protection Charlotte Rafaluk, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

16:20-16:40 Host-parasite coevolution: from experimental evolution studies to evolutionary medicine

Joachim Kurtz, University of Münster, MÜNSTER, Germany

10:00-16:40	Symposium 11: Evolution of communication signals	Room K
	Chair(s): Halfwerk, Wouter (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

10:00-10:30 New insights in the evolution of sexual communication signals (final) Astrid Groot, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

10:30-11:00 Evolution and maintenance of variation in antipredator defences Johanna Mappes, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland

11:30-11:50 Multimodal courtship in a small marine fish is affected by noise Karen de Jong, University of Cologne, Rees-Grietherbusch, Germany

11:50-12:10 Seen but not heard: vestigial calls in earless frogs

Sandra GOUTTE, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, Brazil

12:10-12:30 Song evolution in gomphocerine grasshoppers: a support of rapid and convergent changes in complex courtship

Varvara Vedenina, Moscow, Russian Federation

12:30-12:50 Development and inter-sexual communication in damselflies: combining experimental and phylogenetic approaches

Beatriz Willink, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

12:50-13:10 Paternal care and reproductive costs drive the evolution of female ornamentation: comparative analyses in songbirds

Amélie Fargevieille, CNRS, MONTPELLIER, France

14:30-14:50 Proximity of signallers can maintain sexual signal variation under stabilizing selection Michiel van Wijk, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

14:50-15:10 Sending Mixed Signals: Communication cues for species recognition differ between two African weakly electric fish

Rebecca Nagel, Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, Potsdam, Germany

15:10-15:30 Exploring the hidden landscape of female preferences for complex signals Michael Reichert, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

16:00-16:20 Effects of inbreeding on parent-offspring communication in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides

Jon Richardson, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

16:20-16:40 Signalling about information which is already publicly available Shana Caro, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom

10:00-16:40	Symposium 17: Evolutionary causes and consequences of variation in recombination rate	Room L
	Chair(s): Santure, Anna (Auckland, New Zealand)

10:00-10:30 Evolvability of recombination features

Sviatoslav Rybnikov, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

10:30-11:00 Determinants of recombination activity—the alternative hotspot view Irene Tiemann-Boege, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Linz, Austria

11:30-11:50 Solving the recombination hotspots paradox

Francisco Ubeda, Royal Holloway, Egham, United Kingdom

11:50-12:10 Natural diversity in the reproductive isolation gene Prdm9: Lessons from Madeiran Robertsonian house mice

Covadonga Vara Vara, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Sant Cugat del Vallès, Spain

12:10-12:30 Is there indirect selection on recombination modifiers in the great apes?

David Castellano, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

12:30-12:50 Exploring the variation in recombination rates in eutherian mammals Aurora Ruiz-Herrera, Universitat Autònoma Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

12:50-13:10 The molecular genetic basis of recombination variation in adaptively diverging stickleback fish

Vrinda Venu, FML, Max Planck Society, Tuebingen, Germany

14:30-14:50 Sexual antagonism drives the evolution of the guppy sex chromosomes Alison Wright, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

14:50-15:10 Sex-chromosome recombination: what role for sexually antagonistic genes?

Nicolas Perrin, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

15:10-15:30 Recombination in the eggs and sperm in a simultaneously hermaphroditic vertebrate Loukas Theodosiou, Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Plon, Germany

16:00-16:20 The influence of high recombination rate on genetic diversity in the invasive ant Cardiocondyla obscurior

Jan Oettler, Regensburg, Germany

16:20-16:40 The Role of Recombination in Preventing Viral Divergence

Christina Jenkins, Martin-Luther University at Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany

10:00-16:40	Symposium 23: Rapid evolution revisited	Room M
	Chair(s): Dr. Gordon, Swanne (Jyväsklyä, Finland)

10:00-10:30 Little evidence for rapid evolution in wild populations?

Loeske Kruuk, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

10:30-11:00 Predictability of evolution in fish and flies

Kimberly Hughes, Florida State University, Tallahassee, United States of America

11:30-11:50 Coevolution of Plasticity and Adaptive Traits: The Case of Extremely Rapid Evolution in Wild Crickets

Nathan Bailey, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom

11:50-12:10 Robust inference of selection for plasticity

Michael Morrissey, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom

12:10-12:30 Dynamics of seasonal adaptation in Drosophila melanogaster

Emily Behrman, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States of America 12:30-12:50 Evolutionary Responses to Catastrophic Environmental Change

Carol Lee, University of Wisconsin, Madison, United States of America

12:50-13:10 Epigenetics and adaptation in an asexual invader

Jennifer Madrid Thorson, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States of America

14:30-14:50 DNA methylation and gene expression patterns in a fish meta-population following rapid thermal adaption

Tiina Sävilammi, Turku university, Turku, Finland

14:50-15:10 HSP90 as a capacitor for rapid evolution in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum Joachim Kurtz, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

15:10-15:30 Very rapid, cyclical evolution of resistance in a natural plankton population Dieter Ebert, Uni Basel, Basel, Switzerland

16:00-16:20 Maternal RNA is able to transmit temperature information across generations in wild fish

Adrian-Kalchhauser, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

16:20-16:40 Replicated Rapid Evolution of Sea-Run Threespine Stickleback Fish After Colonizing Alaskan Lakes

Michael Bell, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

10:00-16:40	Symposium 30: Phylogenetics in the genomic era	Room F
	Chair(s): Dr. Blom, Mozes (Stockholm, Sweden)

10:00-10:30 Bayesian species tree inference under the multispecies coalescent using genomic sequence data

Ziheng Yang, London, United Kingdom

10:30-11:00 Comparative genomics, the anomaly zone, and the phylogeny of palaeognathous birds

Scott Edwards, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States of America

11:30-11:50 A comprehensive evaluation of species tree methods in the presence of incomplete lineage sorting

Diego Mallo, Arizona State University, Tempe, United States of America

11:50-12:10 Inferring molecular rates and dates using StarBEAST2

Huw Ogilvie, Australian National University, Acton ACT, Australia

12:10-12:30 Bayesian divergence-time estimation with genome-wide SNP data Michael Matschiner, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

12:30-12:50 Combining relaxed clocks with lateral gene transfers to date species trees Bastien Boussau, CNRS, VILLEURBANNE, France

12:50-13:10 Modeling trait-dependent evolution on a random species tree Daniah Tahir, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

14:30-14:50 Polymorphism-Aware Phylogenetic Models and their Application to Baboon Species Carolin Kosiol, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom

14:50-15:10 Exploring evolutionary relationships across the genome using topology weighting Simon Martin, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

15:10-15:30 Disentangling phylogenetic evolution of rock-wallabies informs the pattern and process of chromosome evolution

Potter, The Australian National University, Acton, Australia

16:00-16:20 Phylogenomics of microendemic frogs of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest: species delimitation and phylogenetic relationships

Marcio Pie, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil

16:20-16:40 Phylogenomics at the tips

Craig Moritz, The Australian National University, Acton, Australia

14:30-16:40	Symposium 2: The spread and evolution of ancient infectious diseases	Room G
	Chair(s): Rühli, F.J. (Zurich, Switzerland)

14:30-15:00 The spread and evolution of ancient tuberculosis and leprosy Helen Donoghue, UCL, London, United Kingdom

15:00-15:30 The Scientific Studies on Ancient Parasite Infection of East Asia by Microscopic and Genetic Researches

Dong Hoon Shin, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

16:00-16:20 Ancient origins, dispersal and Neanderthal transmission to modern humans of HPV16, the most oncogenic human-papillomavirus

Ignacio G. Bravo, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Montpellier, France

16:20-16:40 Were language borders “cultural” barriers for the spread of influenza 1889-94 and 1918-19 in the canton of Bern, Switzerland?

Kaspar Staub, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

14:30-16:40	Symposium 14: Fitness landscapes, big data and the predictability of evolution	Room C
	Chair(s): Dr Matuszewski, Sebastian (Lausanne, Switzerland)

14:30-15:00 The antigenicity-stability seascape: a minimal fitness model for evolutionary predictions

Lässig, Köln, Germany

15:00-15:30 Fitness Landscapes: how little do we know?

Thomas Bataillon, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

16:00-16:20 Population size and the repeatability of antibiotic resistance evolution Mark Zwart, University of Cologne / Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands

16:20-16:40 “Ghost peaks” in epistatic models of high-throughput fitness data: predicted high- fitness sequences predominantly false positives

David McCandlish, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America

16:40-17:25

Keynote lecture Stephen Stearns Closure ISEMPH 2017

Chair(s): Boomsma, Koos (Copenhagen, Denmark)

Room A

16:40-17:25

Keynote lecture Stephen Stearns Closure ISEMPH 2017

Chair(s): Boomsma, Koos (Copenhagen, Denmark)

Room A

17:30-19:30

Poster sessions

Expo 1 – poster area