1st. International Symposium on Evolutionary Biology – Program

terça-feira, junho 05, 2012

1st. International Symposium on Evolutionary Biology – Program

With the support of: Núcleo de Estudos em Biologia Evolutiva, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Sociedade Brasileira de Genética and ISSOL-The International Astrobiology Society.

(05/06/2012)
Night (06:00 pm)

Opening Cerimony

Conference opening

- Nelio Bizzo (University of São Paulo – Brazil)
“Charles Darwin: the postilion of the Andes”

(06/06/2012)
Morning (09:00 am)

- Antonio Lazcano (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico – Mexico)
“Prebiotic evolution and the emergence of life”
Discussant: Romeu Cardoso Guimarães (Federal University of Minas Gerais – Brazil)


Minha sugestão de leitura:

Systems Biology: Volume I: Genomics, by Isidore Rigoutsos (Editor), Gregory Stephanopoulos (Editor)


Prebiotic Chemistry on the Primitive Earth
Stanley L. Miller & H. James Cleaves

- Romeu  Cardoso Guimarães (Federal University of Minas Gerais - Brazil)
“Formation of the Genetic Code”
Discussant: Antonio Lazcano (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico – Mexico)

Afternoon (02:30 pm)

- Fabrício Rodrigues dos Santos (Federal University of Minas Gerais – Brazil)
“Evolution of precolumbian populations in South America”
Discussant: Alan Templeton (Washington University – USA)

- Rasmus Nielsen (University of California – Berkeley - USA)
“Evolutionary inferences from new Generation Sequencing Data”
Discussant: Gustavo Vieira (Federal University of Paraíba – Brazil)


Minha sugestão de leitura:

2010 Feb Genome Research
Population genetic inference from genomic sequence variation John E. Pool1,2, Ines Hellmann3, Jeffrey D. Jensen1,5 and Rasmus Nielsen1,4,6

Night (06:00 pm)
- Poster Session

(07/06/2012)

Morning (09:00 am)



- Reinaldo Alves de Brito (Federal University of São Carlos – Brazil)
“Speciation genes in South American fruit flies: Till you find the right ones keep having fun with the others”
Discussant: David Epel (Stanford University – USA)

- Alan R. Templeton (Washington University – USA)
“The ecological and genetic consequences of the transition from fragmented population of collared lizards to a stable metapopulation in response to prescribed forest fires”

Afternoon (02:30 pm)

- Richard Primack (Boston University – USA)
“Linkage between conservation biology and evolution”
Discussant: Ricardo Rosa (Federal University of Paraíba – Brazil)


Minha sugestão de leitura:


TRENDS in Ecology and Biology 2003 Feb

- Diogo Meyer (University of São Paulo – Brazil)
“On the geographic scale of selection of genes under balancing selection: insights from the immune system”
Discussant: Reginaldo Alves Brito (Federal University of São Carlos – Brazil)


Night (06:00 pm)

- Poster session

(08/06/2012)
Morning (09:00 am)

- David Epel (Stanford University – USA)
“Environment, epigenetics, evolution and evolvability”
Discussant: Douglas Futuyma (State University of New York – USA)


Minha sugestão de leitura:


2010 Integrative Biology Faculty Publications.
What Role Does Heritable Epigenetic Variation Play in Phenotypic Evolution? Christina L. Richards

- Douglas Joel Futuyma (State University of New York – USA)
“Challenging orthodoxy: Do we need a new or expanded evolutionary synthesis?”
Discussant: Fabrício Rodrigues dos Santos (Federal University of Minas Gerais – Brazil)

Minha sugestão de leitura:



The Year in Evolutionary Biology 2009: Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 1168: 218–228 (2009)

Afternoon (02:30 pm)

- Martin Lindsey Christoffersen (Federal University of Paraíba – Brazil)
“Metazoan phylogeny needs transformation series to recover deep structure”
Discussant: Claus Nielsen (Natural History Museum of Denmark – Denmark)

Minha sugestão de leitura:


Mol Biol Evol  27 (9):2095-2104 

Compositional Heterogeneity and Phylogenomic Inference of
Metazoan Relationships Maximilian P. Nesnidal,1 Martin Helmkampf,
Supplementary Data Doc PDF

- Claus Nielsen (Natural History Museum of Denmark – Denmark)
“The origin of Protostomia”
Discussant: Martin Lindsey Christoffersen (Federal University of Paraíba – Brazil)


Minha sugestão de leitura: 


Palaeodiversity 3, Supplement: 149–150; Stuttgart 30 December 2010
The “new phylogeny”. What is new about it? Claus Nielsen

Night (06:00 pm)
- Closing