Germany & Japan Workshop on
Evolutionary Genomics


Dates: March 22nd and 23rd, 2016
Place: NIG Guest House 2nd Floor Seminar Room, National Institute of Genetics, Japan
Funded by DFG, Germany and National Institute of Genetics, Japan

Program

### Day 1: Tuesday, March 22nd, 2016 10:00 - 10:10 Opening remarks 10:10 - 12:10 Session 1: Bacterial evolution Chair: Ebersberger, Ingo 10:10 - 10:45 Talk 1 Speaker: Yokobori, Shin-ichi Title: Experimental evidence for the thermophilicity of ancestral life 10:45 - 11:20 Talk 2 Speaker: Roettger, Mayo Title: Origins of major archaeal clades correspond to gene acquisitions from bacteria 11:20 - 11:55 Talk 3 Speaker: Dagan, Tal Title: Phylogenomic transduction networks reveal genetic barriers to phage-mediated lateral gene transfer during microbial evolution 11:55 - 14:00 Lunch (NIG Guest House 1st floor) 14:00 - 15:45 Session 2: Viral evolution Chair: Satta,Yoko 14:00 - 14:35 Talk 4 Speaker: Kupczok, Anne Title: Detecting selection in bacteriophage genomes using metagenomic SNP data 14:35 - 15:10 Talk 5 Speaker: Watanabe, Hidemi Title: Identification and evolutionary study of viral genomic elements responsible for specific clinical manifestations of diseases caused by human adenoviruses 15:10 - 15:45 Talk 6 Speaker: Fricke, Markus Title: Evolution of non-coding RNAs and viral genomes 15:45 - 16:15 Tea/Coffee break 16:15 - 18:30 Session 3: Eukaryotic evolution Chair: Watanabe, Hidemi 16:15 - 16:50 Talk 7 Speaker: Tamura, Koichiro Title: Transcriptomic response for cold adaptation in Drosophila 16:50 - 17:25 Talk 8 Speaker: Ku, Chuan Title: Endosymbiotic origin and differential loss of eukaryotic genes 17:25 - 18:00 Talk 9 Speaker: Akashi, Hiroshi Title: Inferring the prevalence of adaptive evolution from polymorphism/divergence data: Biases from codon usage selection 18:30 - 20:30 Workshop Buffet Dinner (NIG Guest House 1st floor) ### Day 2: Wednesday, March 23rd, 2016 9:00 - 12:10 Session 4: Deuterostome evolution Chair: Tamura, Koichiro 9:00 - 9:35 Talk 10 Speaker: Kawashima Takeshi Title: Hemichordate genomes and the updated synapomorphy of deuterostome 9:35 - 10:10 Talk 11 Speaker: Saitou, Naruya Title: Functional role of evolutionarily conserved non-coding sequences in vertebrates 10:10 - 10:45 Talk 12 Speaker: Satta, Yoko Title: Detection of artificial selection in the chicken genome 10:45 - 11:20 Talk 13 Speaker: Niimura, Yoshihito Title: Dynamic evolution of olfactory receptor genes in mammals 11:20 - 13:00 Lunch (NIG Guest House 1st floor) 13:00 - 15:00 Session 5: Methods to study evolution and their applications (1) Chair: Akashi, Hiroshi 13:00 - 13:35 Talk 14 Speaker: Ebersberger, Ingo Title: Tracing functional protein interaction networks across species and through time 13:35 - 14:10 Talk 15 Speaker: Butter, Falk Title: A proteomics approach to study evolution of gene regulation and protein interactions 14:10 - 14:45 Talk 16 Speaker: Hiller, Michael Title: Linking phenotypic differences between species to differences in their genomes 14:45 - 15:15 Tea/Coffee break 15:15 - 18:10 Session 6: Methods to study evolution and their applications (2) Chair: Saitou, Naruya 15:15 - 15:50 Talk 17 Speaker: Stanke, Mario Title: Comparative structural genome annotation 15:50 - 16:25 Talk 18 Speaker: Platzer, Matthias Title: Genome evolution on different levels - 2 case studies 16:25 - 17:00 Talk 19 Speaker: Ikeo, Kazuho Title: Dynamics of microbiota composition by using NGS big data 17:00 - 17:35 Talk 20 Speaker: Jinam, Timothy A. Title: Demographic histories of human populations inferred from genome-wide SNP 17:35 - 18:30 General Discussion

List of speakers and chairpersons

Akashi, Hiroshi, Division of Evolutionary Genetics, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan Butter, Falk, Institute of Molecular Biology, Mainz, Germany Dagan, Tal, Institute of Microbiology, University Kiel, Kiel, Germany Ebersberger, Ingo, Institute of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany Fricke, Markus, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany Hiller, Michael, Max Planck Institute of Molcecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany Ikeo, Kazuho, Laboratory for DNA Data Analysis, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan Jinam, Timothy A., Division of Population Genetics, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan Kawashima Takeshi, Laboratory for Development, Evolution and Phylogenetics, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan Ku, Chuan, Institute of Molecular Evolution, Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany Kupczok, Anne, Institute of Microbiology, University Kiel, Kiel, Germany Platzer, Matthias, Leibniz Institute on Aging - Fritz Lipmann Institute, Jena, Germany Niimura, Yoshihito, Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Roettger, Mayo, Institute of Molecular Evolution, Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany Saitou, Naruya, Division of Population Genetics, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan Satta, Yoko, Department of Evolutionary Studies of Biosystems, SOKENDAI (Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Hayama, Japan Stanke, Mario, Institut of Mathematics and Computer Science, Ernst Moritz Arndt Universitaet Greifswald, Germany Tamura, Koichiro, Department of Biological Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan Watanabe, Hidemi, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan Yokobori, Shin-ichi, Department of Molecular Biology, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, Japan