PROGRAMME

Keynote Speakers

Per Ahlberg (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Moisés Mallo (Gulbenkian Institute of Science, Portugal)
Armin Moczek (Indiana University, Bloomington, U.S.A.)
Paula Rudall (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, U.K.)

Symposia (4 parallel sessions)

Towards a theory of development Organizers: Alessandro Minelli (Univ. Of Padua, Italy), Rinaldo Bertossa (Groningen University, The Netherlands)
Evolution of organs and cell types Organizers: Andreas Hejnol (SARS Bergen, Norway), Jean-Francois Brunet (IBENS, Paris, France)
Evolution of stem cells and regeneration Organizers: Ram Reshef (Technion Univ. Israel), Uri Frank (NUI Galway, Ireland)
Next generation models to understand animal phylogeny and regulatory evolution Organizers: Michel Vervoort (Institut Monod Paris, France), Florian Raible (University of Vienna, Austria)
Evolution at the Plant-Animal interface Organizers: Beverley Glover and Sam Brockington (Univ. of Cambridge, UK)
Morphological misfits Organizers: Paula Rudall (Royal Kew Gardens, UK, Ronald Jenner NHM London, UK)
Evo-Devo of homeotic transformations Organizers: Andre Pires da Silva (University of Texas, USA), Frietson Galis (VU University, the Netherlands)
Evo-Devo of arthropod appendages: the genes that matter Organizers: Patricia Beldade (Gulbenkian Institute, Portugal), Antonia Monteiro (Yale University, USA)
Evo-Devo in extreme environments Organizers: Didier Casane (CNRS Paris, France), Sylvie Rétaux (CNRS Gif-sur-Yvette, France)
Planarians to parasitism: Development and stem cells in flatworms Organizers Peter Olson (NHM London, UK), Bret Pearson (University of Toronto, Canada)
Posterior elongation in bilaterians Organizers: Guillaume Balavoine (Institut Monod Paris, France), Ariel Chipman (Hebrew University, Israel)
Regulatory protein changes in the evolution of plant body plans Organizers: Günter Theissen (Friedrich Schiller University, Germany)
Theoretical contributions to Evo-Devo Organizers: Hans Metz (IASA Austria)
3D Imaging for EvoDevo Organizers: Brian Metscher and Gerd Mueller (University of Vienna, Austria)
3D Morphometrics for EvoDevo Organizer: Philipp Mitteroecker (University of Vienna, Austria)
Heterospory: The Evolutionary Road to the Seed Organizers: Heather Sanders (University of Oxford, UK), Mike Frohlich (ENS de Lyon, France)
How do you like your eggs? Organizers: Casper Breuker and Alistair McGregor (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
The origin and fate of germ cells in animal evolution and development Organizers: Jeremy Lynch (University of Cologne, Germany), Evelyn Schwager (Harvard University, USA)
Evolution of sex determining pathways in insects Organizers: Daniel Bopp (University of Zurich, Switzerland), Louis van de Zande (University of Groningen, the Netherlands), Lino Polito (University of Naples, Italy), Martin Beye (Heinrich Heine University, Germany)