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| Symposium 8: Major transitions in evolution |
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Tuesday, 22 August 2017
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10:00-17:20 |
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Room F |
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10:00-10:30 |
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Coupled evolution of collective function and structure
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Silvia de Monte, IBENS, Paris, France
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10:30-11:00 |
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A Darwinian approach to the major transitions: Evolution of individuality in the volvocine green algae
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Richard Michod, University of Arizona, Tucson, United States of America
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11:30-11:50 |
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What are Major Transitions?
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Ellen Clarke, Leeds, United Kingdom
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11:50-12:10 |
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What is adaptation and how should it be measured?
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Joel Peck, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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David Waxman, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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12:10-12:30 |
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The evolution of host-symbiont dependence
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Roberta Fisher, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Lee Henry, Queen Mary University, London, United Kingdom
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Charlie Cornwallis, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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E Kiers, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Stuart West, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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12:30-12:50 |
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Hypermutation, death, and the division of labour in Streptomyces colonies
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Daniel Rozen, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands
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Zhang, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands
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Choi, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands
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Claessen, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands
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12:50-13:10 |
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The Evolution of the Germ-Soma Divide
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Guy Cooper, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Stuart West, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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14:30-14:50 |
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What is intra-genomic conflict?
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Francisco Ubeda de Torres, Royal Holloway, Egham, United Kingdom
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14:50-15:10 |
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A germline-soma-analogy for understanding the remoulding of the fecundity/longevity trade-off in a highly social termite
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Daniel Elsner, Evolutionary Biology & Ecology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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Judith Korb, Evolutionary Biology & Ecology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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15:10-15:30 |
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Social exploitation selects against aggregative multicellularity
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Pentz, Atlanta, United States of America
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Libby, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, United States of America
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Ratcliff, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, United States of America
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15:30-15:50 |
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Coming together is a poor predictor of keeping together in the major evolutionary transitions
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Koos Boomsma, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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16:20-16:40 |
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Evolution of the Hymenopteran superorganism and its entailing queen signalling system
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Jelle van Zweden, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Cintia Oi, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Ricardo Oliveira, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Tom Wenseleers, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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16:40-17:00 |
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Social group augmentation alone can generate lasting behavioral specialization and enhance fitness
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Ulrich, The Rockefeller University, New York, United States of America
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Saragosti, The Rockefeller University, New York, United States of America
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Kronauer, The Rockefeller University, New York, United States of America
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17:00-17:20 |
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Formal models of evolutionary transitions in individuality
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Christoph Thies, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
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Markus Brede, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
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Richard A. Watson, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
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