THE INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON THE GENETICS OF POLYPLOIDS
Lisbon, Portugal | 11 - 12 November 2010

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Oral Presentation Schedule

Thursday, 11 November
 
8:30 - 9:45     Registration of delegates and poster display
9:45 - 10:00     Opening addresses
SESSION 1: GENOME DYNAMICS IN POLYPLOIDS
    CHAIR PERSON: Coelho MM
10:00 - 10:50 PL1 Butlin R

Plenary Lecture:
Polyploidy in relation to speciation and parthenogenesis

10:50 - 11:10 O1 Choleva L,  Bohlen J, De Gelas K, Šlechtová V, Rábová M, Ráb P & Janko K. From primary hybridization to polyploidy: direct evidence in European spined loaches
11:10 - 11:30     Coffee-Break
    CHAIR PERSON: Ráb P (Collares-Pereira MJ)
11:30 - 12:00 KN1 Symonová R, Flajšhans M, Gela D, Rodina M, Pelikánová S, Rábová M & Ráb P Keynote Lecture:
Sturgeons are pretty polyploid: hybrid and ploidy diversity in sturgeons
12:00 - 12:20 O2 Vasil’ev VP & Vasil’eva ED How many times has polyploidization occurred in Acipenserid evolution? New evidences obtained by karyological studies in the Far East sturgeon species
12:20 - 12:40 O3 Baglivi F & Neiman M Rate of transition to polyploidy in the New Zealand Mud Snail
12:40 - 13:00 O4 Janko K, Eisner J, Kotusz J & Drozd P Maladaptive polyploidy? Triploids dominate in asexual populations despite their lower fitness compared to diploid clones
13:00 - 14:30     Lunch
    CHAIR PERSON: Bogart J (Collares-Pereira MJ)
14:30 - 15:20 PL2 Bogart J Plenary Lecture:
Intergenomic interactions in North American unisexual salamanders (Caudata, Ambystomidae)
15:20 - 15:40 O5 Opoldusová Z, Janko K, Symonová R, Rábová M, Pelykánová S, Choleva L & Ráb P GISH analysis of European spined loaches (Cobitis strumicae) in tri-hybrid genomes and re-description of its karyotye
15:40 - 16:00 O6 Rampin M, Bi K, Bogart J & Collares-Pereira MJ The Squalius alburnoides hybridogenetic complex (Cyprinidae): a cytogenetic overview with new insights based on GISH data
16:00 - 16:20 O7 Stift M, Nogueira M, Meimberg H & Van Tienderen P Can interspecific gene flow explain how newly formed polyploids attain variation?
16:20 - 16:40     Coffee-Break
    CHAIR PERSON: Arai K (Coelho MM)
16:40 - 17:10 KN2 Li Y, Yu Z, Zhang M, Qian C & Arai K Keynote Lecture:
Genetic and cytogenetic characteristics of natural tetraploid loach Misgurnus anguillicaudatus in China
17:10 - 17:30 O8 Saitoh K, Chen W-J, Nakajima J & Mayden RL Sexually reproducing balanced and imbalanced tetraploids in spined loach fish
17:30 - 17:50 O9 Boron A, Juchno D, Kujawa R & Grabowska A Comparative cytogenetics of progeny from the crosses between triploid Cobitis (Pisces, Cobitidae) females and males of some species.
 
17:50 - 19:10     Poster Session
 
19:30 - 21:30     Dinner (Includes VicenTuna presentation)
 
Friday, 12 November
 
SESSION 2: SEX AND REPRODUCTION IN POLYPLOIDS
    CHAIR PERSON: Schartl M (Coelho MM)
9:00 - 9:50 PL3 Schartl M Plenary Lecture:
Polyploidy and Gynogenesis in Poecilia formosa
9:50 - 10:10 O10 Piferrer F Reproduction in induced triploid fish
10:10 - 10:30 O11 Ogielska M, Rozenblut B, Haczkiewicz K & Dziewulska-Szwajkowska D Development of gonads, sexual maturity and fecundity of diploid and triploid hybridogenetic water frogs Pelophylax esculentus (Rana esculenta)
10:30 - 10:50 O12 Stöck M, Cawsey S, Lamatsch DK & Perrin N Genetics of a hybrid zone between diploid and tetraploid Palearctic green toads (Bufo viridis subgroup) with first evidence for reproduction of triploid males and the occurrence of triploid females
10:50 - 11:10     Coffee-Break
    CHAIR PERSON: Butlin R
11:10 - 11:30 O13 Vasil’ev VP & Vasil’eva ED Genetic mechanisms of sex determination in sturgeons: new data and conclusions
11:30 - 11:50 O14 Paczesniak D, Neiman M & Jokela J Triploid males help in understanding the mechanism of sex determination in Potamopyrgus antipodarum, a freshwater snail
11:50 - 12:10 O15 Soper DM, Neiman M & Lively CM Triploid male fertility: a testis investigation
12:10 - 12:30 O16 Suárez-Villota EY, Marchant CL, Vargas RA, Haro R & Gallardo MH Variation in repetitive DNAs and the parental origin of the red vizcacha rat (Octodontidae)
12:30 - 12:50 O17 Dufresne F & Vergilino R Transposons and polyploidy in Daphnia
12:50 - 14:20     Lunch
 
SESSION 3: GENE EXPRESSION IN POLYPLOIDS
    CHAIR PERSON: Comai L (Inácio A)
14:20 - 15:10 PL4 Comai L Plenary Lecture:
Regulatory mechanisms shaping polyploid evolution
15:10 - 15:40 KN3 Silva M & Viegas W

Keynote Lecture:
Polyploid epi & genomic plasticity

15:40 - 16:00 O18 Santos AP Polyploidy and environmental stresses: implications on rice genome organization
16:00 - 16:20 O19 Matos I, Machado M, Sucena L, Inácio A, Schartl M & Coelho MM Comparative study of gene expression between different ploidies and genomic contexts in the Squalius alburnoides complex
 
16:20 - 16:30     Conclusion & Group photo
 
16:30 - 23:30     Coffee-Break, Lisbon Sightseeing & Conference Dinner