For the sake of completeness, here is the details of the recent meeting in Sheffield, which was organised by Nicola Nadeau
Programme
Monday 13th June
9.00 registration (with refreshments)
9.20 Welcome and announcements
9.30 Simon Martin (Cambridge) – Species boundaries among Heliconius butterflies reflect the genetic architecture of speciation
9.50 Ana Pinharanda (Cambridge) – The comparative landscape of duplications in Heliconius melpomene and Heliconius cydno
10.10 John Davey (Cambridge) Fine-scale recombination maps show no major inversions between sympatric H. melpomene and H. cydno populations
10.30 Break
11.00 Mónica Arias (Paris) – A computer game to explore the evolution of adaptive variations in mimetic colour patterns
11.20 Violaine Llaurens (Paris) – Polymorphic mimicry as an evolutionary dead-end? Lessons drawn from the genetic architecture of mimetic coloration in Cuckoo finch
11.40 Suzanne Saenko (Paris) – Characterization of the wing colour patterning supergene in Heliconius numata
12.00 Joe Hanly (Cambridge) – Mimicry in the Making: the genetic basis of convergent evolution in Heliconius wing patterns
12.20 Discussion
12.30 Lunch
13.45 Victor Soria-Carrasco (Sheffield) – Genomic dynamics of speciation in Timema stick insects
14.14 Neil Rosser (York) – Reproductive isolation and geography in Heliconius elevatus and Heliconius pardalinus
14.30 Lucie Queste (York) – Characterising Reproductive Barriers Between Three Closely Related Heliconius Butterfly Taxa
14.45 Bruna Cama (York) – Genetic analysis of wing pattern and pheromone composition in two sister species of Heliconius butterflies
15.00 Break
15.30 Thomas Aubier (Montpellier) – Identifying the nature of mimicry among prey with unequal defences
15.50 Érika Castro (Copenhagen) – You are what you eat: cyanogenic glucosides in Heliconius and closely related genera
16.10 Gilbert Smith (Irvine) – Gene duplication and gene expression changes play a role in the evolution of candidate pollen feeding genes in Heliconius butterflies
16.30 Discussion
17.00 Posters and drinks reception
18.00 Barbecue
20.00 Quiz
Tuesday 14th June
9.00 Sujai Kumar and Richard Challis (Edinburgh) – lepbase workshop
10.30 Chris Jiggins (Cambridge) – Earthscape database for Heliconius
10.40 Break
11.10 Mauricio Linares (Rosario) – The Jose Celestino Mutis International Experimental Field Station for Lepidoptera Research
11.20 Jennifer Hoyal Cuthill (Cambridge and Tokyo Institute of Technology) – Coevolution of Heliconius butterflies: evidence and outstanding questions
11.40 Jake Morris (York) – Population genomics of a multi-species mimetic hybrid zone
12.00 Emma Curran (Sheffield) – Comparing parallel clines of a polygenic iridescence trait in mimetic butterflies
12.20 Discussion
12.30 Lunch
13.50 Anja Westram (Sheffield) – The genomic basis of ecotype divergence in Littorina snails
14.20 Mathieu Joron (Montpellier) – Inversion polymorphism changes the rules of speciation in a mimetic butterfly
14.40 Paul Jay (Montpellier) – Supergene evolution favoured by the introgression of an inversion in Heliconius
15.00 Break
15.30 Richard Merrill (Cambridge) – Genetic modularity of mate recognition behaviours and their warning pattern cues
15.50 Stephen Montgomery (UCL) – Brains over beauty: Heliconius neuroecology
16.10 Marianne Elias (Paris) – The Ithomiini: the other mimetic butterflies
16.30 Discussion and closing thoughts
The abstract book is hereAbstract_book