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HELICONIUS BIOLOGY 2013 HARVARD HERBARIA Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology 22 Divinity Avenue Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 USA |
Organized by:
Nikki Hughes & James Mallet
email addresses: nhughes@fasmail.harvard.edu, JMALLET@oeb.harvard.edu
tel: +1-(617) – 495 – 0508 and +1-(617) – 496 – 5350
Programme: All talks 20 mins., questions and discussion at end of each block
Thursday 11 July – 7 pm (1900) onwards – Informal gathering in John Harvard’s Brewhouse, 33 Dunster Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 from 7 pm (1900).
Friday 12 July – Heliconius biology, evolution, and genetics
0900 Mallet, Jiggins, McMillan: Introduction to meeting, and welcome to Cambridge
0915 Lawrence E. Gilbert jr.: The color pattern toolbox and hybridization with
Heliconius atthis, H. hecale, and H. cydno
0930 Sean Mullen: Ancient homology underlies mimetic adaptation in butterflies
0945 Barbara Huber: Heliconius hecale and H. ismenius and origins of a supergene
1000 Discussion
1030 Coffee
1100 Yann de Poul: Rules of wing pattern morphospace exploration and the evolution
of dominance
1120 Violaine Llaurens: Evolution of dominance in colour pattern genes of H. numata
1140 Mathieu Joron: Population genomics and hybrid origins of inversions and a
supergene
1200 Discussion
1230 Lunch
1400 Megan Supple & Brian Counterman: Genomic divergence across the H. erato
species continuum
1420 Heather Hines: Genetics and evolution of red patterns in erato-group Heliconius
1440 Mayte Ruiz: Population genomics of hybrid zones in H. erato and H. melpomene
1500 Nicola Nadeau: Colour pattern genomics in Heliconius hybrid zones
1520 Mallet/Kryvokhyzha/Dasmahapatra: H. elevatus/H. pardalinus admixture
1530 Discussion
1600 Tea
1630 Gilbert Smith: Identification of pollen-feeding related genes in Heliconius
1650 Adriana Briscoe: Female behavior and evolution of gustatory receptors
1710 Brett Seymoure: Heliconius in a new light: Mimicry and light environments
1730 Sarah Kocher: Halictid bees as a comparative model for studying social evolution
1750 Discussion
Friday 12 July – Conference Dinner
1900 Legal Seafoods Restaurant, 20 University Rd, Cambridge, MA 02138
Saturday 13 July – Heliconius genomics and databasing
0900 Marian Goldsmith: Finding the fem gene on the Bombyx W chromosome
0920 Jamie Walters: Update on Heliconius and Lepidoptera sex chromosomes
0940 James Lewis: A cis-regulatory map of the Heliconius genome
1000 Discussion
1030 Coffee
1100 John Davey: Reassembly and version 2.0 of the H. melpomene genome
1120 Bob Reed: optix & Wnt
1140 Chris Jiggins: Report from the Jiggins lab
1200 Discussion
1230 Lunch
1400 Mark Blaxter & Chris Jiggins: Databasing Heliconius and the Lepidoptera
1420 William Gelbart: Designing a Heliconius genome database. Lessons from FlyBase
1440 McMillan: H. erato genome update; Joron: H. numata genome update; others?
1500 General discussion
1600 Tea
1630 Panel discussions: future of Heliconius/Lepidoptera genome assembly,
1700 databasing, …
1730 … panelists include David Emmert of FlyBase
Sunday 14 July – Possibility for further informal discussions
0900 Harvard Herbaria theatre available till midday
1200 Departure for Biddeford, Maine (for those attending Gordon Research Conference)