Dear friends of EvoDevo,
the deadlines for abstract submission and early registration for the 2014
EED meeting in Vienna are 30 April 2014. The meeting will be held from 22
to 25 July 2014 at the Campus of the University of Vienna.
Registration:
The meeting fee is 250€ for non-student members and 190€ for students
(300€ and 250€ after the early fee deadline of 30 April 2014). The meeting
fee includes lunches on 23, 24 and 25 July 2014. Registration also
includes temporary membership in the EED society. The membership fee is
20€ both for non-student members and students.
To register, please go to the conference page at our website:
http://evodevo2014.univie.ac.at/registration
Abstract submission:
Abstract submission is open: the deadline for abstract submission will be
30 April 2014.
We are pleased to present an exciting scientific program of keynote
lectures and symposia/minisymposia. (Whereever possible submitted
abstracts will be associated with one of the symposia or minisymposia).
Keynote speakers:
Veronica Grieneisen (John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom)
Jean-Jacques Hublin (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology,
Leipzig, Germany)
Stuart Newman (New York Medical College, United States)
Ulrich Technau (University of Vienna, Austria)
Symposia and Minisymposia:
N.B. for a full listing of the symposium speakers, see the Symposia and
Minisymposia Vienna 2014 Webpage
Mechanisms of development
Organizers: Annemiek Cornelissen, Naomi Nakayama
Ecological and environmental impacts in the evolution of organismal
development
Organizers: Chris Lowe, Angelika Stollewerk, John Willis
How does developmental robustness facilitate the evolution of
biodiversity? Organizers: Rainer Melzer, Günter Theißen
EvoDevo of cranial neural crest populations across developmental systems.
Organizer: Georgy Koentges
Less is more: loss of gene functions as a driving force of developmental
evolution
Organizers: Ingo Braasch, Cristian Cañestro
Uncovering the genomic bases of phenotypic change in the NGS era
Organizers: Manuel Irimia, Ignacio Maeso, Juan Pascual-Anaya
EcoEvoDevo – beyond the Modern Synthesis
Organizers: Scott Gilbert, Yoav Soen
«Living fossils», myth or reality?
Organizers: Patrick Laurenti, Didier Casane
Form and function of structural colour: convergent evolution across
multiple kingdoms
Organizers: Beverley Glover
NEPTUNE ITN: the evolution of sensory systems in the marine environment
Organizers: Maria Ina Arnone, Andreas Hejnol
Quantitative EvoDevo in model and non-model organisms
Organizers: Benedikt Hallgrimsson, Chris Klingenberg, Ruth Flatscher,
Philipp Mitteroecker
Developmental basis of quantitative variation
Organizers: Mihaela Pavlicev, Günter Wagner
Perspectives on Wnt signaling
Organizers: Wim Damen, Cornelius Eibner
Origin and diversification of regeneration
Organizers: Florian Raible
Towards an Extended Evolutionary Synthesis
Organizers: Gerd Müller, Werner Callebaut
Quo vadis EvoDevo?
Organizers: Manfred D. Laubichler, Cassandra Extavour
What should bioinformatics do for EvoDevo? Omics contribution to EvoDevo
Organizers: Ann Burke, Paula Mabee, Günter Plickert, Mark Blaxter
EvoDevo of symmetry in animals and plants
Organizers: Sophie Nadot, Catherine Damerval
Plant EvoDevo – Linking cross-species genetic and morphological variation
Organizer: John Bowman, Mitsuyasu Hasebe
Structural organization in vertebrate dentitions: molecules, morphology
and function
Organizers: Moya Smith, Abigail Tucker
EvoDevo as an approach to understanding communication
Organizers: Ulrike Griebel, Oller Koller
Local Organizing Committee
Philipp Mitteröcker
Department of Theoretical Biology, University of Vienna
Gerd B. Müller
Department of Theoretical Biology, University of Vienna
Isabella Sarto-Jackson
Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research
Uli Technau
Department of Molecular Evolution and Development, Univ. of Vienna
Kristin Tessmar-Raible
Max-Perutz Laboratories, Vienna Biocenter
We look forward to seeing you in Vienna,
The executive committee of the EED:
Frietson Galis
Ronald Jenner
Gerd B. Müller
Peter Olson
Michael Schubert
Charlie Scutt
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