Symposium Speakers

John Archibald (Dalhousie University): Genome reduction in eukaryotes: nucleomorph genomes as a case study.

Chris Burge (MIT): Determinants of microRNA targeting.

Francesco Catania, Xiang Gao, and Douglas Scofield (Indiana University): Origins and evolution of spliceosomal introns.

Brian Charlesworth (University of Edinburgh, UK): Mutation, selection and genome evolution.

Andrew Clark (Cornell University): 12 Drosophila genomes: Some lessons in evolutionary genomics.

Adam Eyre-Walker (University of Sussex, UK): The relationship between gene expression evolution and sequence evolution - exploring the hidden content of the genome.

Matthew Hahn (Department of Biology and School of Informatics, Indiana University): Natural selection on gene duplication and loss.

Eugene Koonin (National Center for Biotechnology Information): Origins and evolution of eukaryotic gene structure.

Harmit Malik (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center): Causes and consequences of centromere complexity in plants and animals.

Eric Meyer (Ecole Normale Supiérieure, France): Recognition of intervening sequences with weak consensus signals: RNA and DNA splicing in the ciliate Paramecium

Sally Otto, Wilhelmine Key Lecturer (University of British Columbia): The Causes of Evolution...in the Era of Genomics.

Jeffrey Palmer (Department of Biology, Indiana University): Horizontal gene transfer gone wild in plant mitochondrial genomes.

David Penny & Lesley Collins (Massey University, NZ): The RNA infrastructure of the ancestral eukaryote.

Victoria Prince (University of Chicago): The role of gene and genome duplications in evolution: insights from the ray-finned fishes.

Ellen Pritham (University of Texas, Arlington): Transposable elements and the dynamic genome.

Scott Roy (Massey University, NZ): Unraveling the mysteries of transcript splicing in eukaryotes.

Arlin Stoltzfus (Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology, Maryland): Mutation as a cause of non-randomness in evolution.

Soojin Yi (Georgia Institute of Technology): Molecular mechanisms of mutations and genome evolution.