| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | EVOLUTION OF GENOME COMPLEXITY |
| 7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Discussion Leader: Wen-Hsiung Li (University of Chicago) - Synopsis |
| 7:40 pm - 8:25 pm | Michael Lynch (Indiana University)
"The Origins of Genome Complexity" |
| 8:25 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
| 8:35 pm - 9:20 pm | Austin Hughes (University of South Carolina)
"How Do Duplicate Genes Evolve New Functions?" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| 9:30 pm - 11:00 pm | Reception |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | PATTERNS OF HUMAN GENETIC DIVERSITY |
| 9:00 am - 9:10 am | Discussion Leader: Marcus Feldman (Stanford University) - Synopsis |
| 9:10 am - 9:55 am | Sarah Tishkoff (University of Maryland)
"Genetic analysis of African populations: implications for human evolutionary history" |
| 9:55 am - 10:05 am | Discussion |
| 10:05 am | Coffee Break / Group Photo |
| 10:35 am - 11:20 am | Molly Przeworski (Brown University
"Insights into recombination from patterns of genetic diversity in humans and chimpanzees" |
| 11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 12:15 pm | Anna Di Rienzo (University of Chicago)
"Inferences about human demography based on multilocus analyses of noncoding sequences" |
| 12:15 pm - 12:25 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | ADAPTIVE MOLECULAR EVOLUTION IN PLANTS |
| 7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Discussion Leader: Brandon Gaut (University of California, Irvine) - Synopsis |
| 7:40 pm - 8:25 pm | Joy Bergelson (University of Chicago)
"Evolution of plant disease resistance genes" |
| 8:25 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
| 8:35 pm - 9:20 pm | June Nasrallah (Cornell University)
"Molecular evolution of self-incompatability genes" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | ADVANCES IN ANALYTICAL TOOLS |
| 9:00 am - 9:10 am | Discussion Leader: Tandy Warnow (Harvard University) - Synopsis |
| 9:10 am - 9:55 am | Rasmus Nielsen (Cornell University)
"Statistical Tests of Selective Neutrality in the Age of Genomics" |
| 9:55 am - 10:05 am | Discussion |
| 10:05 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:35 am - 11:20 am | Mary Kuhner (University of Washington)
"Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Natural Selection under the Coalescent" |
| 11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 12:15 pm | David Haussler (UC Santa Cruz)
"Reconstructing ancestral mammalian genomes" |
| 12:15 pm - 12:25 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | EVOLUTION OF HETEROCHROMATIN AND NONCODING SEQUENCES |
| 7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Discussion Leader: Steve Henikoff (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center) - Synopsis |
| 7:40 pm - 8:25 pm | Barbara Wakimoto (University of Washington)
"The evolution of heterochromatic genes in Drosophila" |
| 8:25 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
| 8:35 pm - 9:20 pm | Harmit Malik (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center)
"The evolution of centromeres and their histones" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | TREE OF LIFE |
| 9:00 am - 9:10 am | Discussion Leader: Mitch Sogin (The Marine Biological Laboratory) - Synopsis |
| 9:10 am - 9:55 am | Billie Swalla (University of Washington)
"Phylogeny of Deuterostomes: Vertebrate Origins" |
| 9:55 am - 10:05 am | Discussion |
| 10:05 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:35 am - 11:20 am | Michael J. Sanderson (University of California, Davis)
"Prospects for large-scale phylogeny reconstruction in the Tree of Life" |
| 11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 12:15 pm | Nancy Moran (University of Arizona)
"Independent Origins and Horizontal Transfer of Bacterial Symbionts" |
| 12:15 pm - 12:25 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | EVOLUTION OF GENE EXPRESSION |
| 7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Discussion Leader: Michael D. Purugganan (North Carolina State University) - Synopsis |
| 7:40 pm - 8:25 pm | Greg Gibson (North Carolina State University)
"Genetic Contributions to Transcriptional Variation: Mapping Transcripts to Traits" |
| 8:25 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
| 8:35 pm - 9:20 pm | Greg Wray (Duke University)
"Rapid evolution of cis-regulatory sequences" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | NETWORK EVOLUTION |
| 9:00 am - 9:10 am | Discussion Leader: Andy Clark (Cornell University) - Synopsis |
| 9:10 am - 9:55 am | Bernard Palsson (University of California, San Diego)
"Systems Biology and Genetic Circuits" |
| 9:55 am - 10:05 am | Discussion |
| 10:05 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:35 am - 11:20 am | Eric Davidson (California Institute of Technology)
"The Evolution of Gene Networks that Control Development" |
| 11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 12:15 pm | Andreas Wagner (University of New Mexico)
"Molecular evolution in genetic networks" |
| 12:15 pm - 12:25 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | COMPARATIVE GENOMICS |
| 7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Discussion Leader: Chip Aquadro (Cornell University) - Synopsis |
| 7:40 pm - 8:25 pm | Casey Bergman (UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
"The Comparative Genomics of Transposable Elements in Drosophila" |
| 8:25 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
| 8:35 pm - 9:20 pm | Michael Eisen (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and UC Berkeley)
"The molecular evolution of the regulation of transcription"
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| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Depart |