Welcome to the Workshop on Evolutionary, Developmental and Population Genetics, September 12-13, 2013!
 
The event is organized in cooperation by the Biocenter Oulu Doctoral Programme (BCO-DP), the Finnish German doctoral Training Network in Developmental Biology (FinGerDevNet) and the National Population Genetics Doctoral Program.
 
Workshop home page: https://wiki.oulu.fi/display/genetics/Workshop+on+Evolutionary%2C+Developmental+and+Population+Genetics%2C+September+12-13%2C+2013
 
 

Program:

 

Thursday – 12 September

09.00-09.30. Get together coffee

09.15-09.30 TED Virtual Lecture - Orientation to the subject

09.30-09.45. Opening and orientation by Seppo Vainio & Tanja Pyhäjärvi

09.45-10.30. Brandon Gaut (USA): "Methylation and the evolution of plant genes and genomes"

10.30-11.15. Jukka Jernvall (Finland): “Comparative enhancer landscapes of tooth genes”

11.15-11.45. Coffee/Tea break and social activity

11.45-12.30. Hadi Valadi (Sweden): “Exosomes shuttle RNA between cells, a potential vector for delivery of therapeutic nucleic acids to cells”

12.30-13.30 Lunch break

13.30-14.15. Benedetta Bussolati (Italy): “Nanovesicles in control of progenitor cells and kidney function”

14.15-15.15. Student - speaker discussions on the topics (Please register to the teams)

  1. Evolutionary biology
  2. Nanovesicles/exosomes
  3. Developmental Biology

15.15-16.00 Ram Reshef (Israel): "Hox genes and the establishment of the kidney morphogenetic field"

16.00-16.45 Racel Giles (Holland): "Evolution of the kidney"

Friday 13 September

09.00-09.30. Get together coffee - TED lecture in lecture hall

09.30-10.00. Summaries and reviews of the discussions from the 1-3 miniteams given by the students

10.00-10.45. Mark Hankins (UK): “The evolution of non-visual photoreceptors in the vertebrates”.

10.45-11.30 Moises Mallo (Spain): "Variations in rib numbers among vertebrates: a story of small differences with a big impact".

11.30-12.15 Brandon Gaut (USA). "The molecular and functional diversity of adaptive convergence."

Closing of the workshop by Seppo Vainio and Tanja Pyhäjärvi

 

Venue: Linnanmaa, Oulu (Lecture halls will be announced later)

Study points: ECTS 1.0. To gain the study points, students need to
  1. Register and participate to one of the discussion groups
  2. Prepare for discussion groups by reading the provided material (Material will be available soon)
  3. Contribute to summaries and reviews of discussion groups on Friday at 09.30-10.00. E.g. in each discussion group, pick and prepare to explain the 3 most important points that came up in your discussion group. Everybody does not have to present, but everybody has to contribute.

Contact: Tanja Pyhäjärvi or Seppo Vainio (firstname.lastname@oulu.fi)

 
Registration Here