Oct. 24-26, 2009, Yingjie Overseas Exchange Center, Peking University, Beijing, China中文版

Program

23 Oct 2009  
09:00-18:00 Registration Life Science Building, Lake View Hotel
18:00-20:00 Welcome Reception Lake View Hotel

24 Oct 2009  
07:30-08:30 Registration Yingjie Overseas Exchange Center
  Chairperson Manyuan Long
08:30-09:10 Opening Ceremony  
09:10-09:30 Group photo In front of Yingjie Overseas Exchange Center
  Chairperson Hongya Gu
09:30-10:10 Douglas Futuyma Evolution: The Most Important Theory in Biology
10:10-10:50 Tomoko Ohta The Nearly Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution
10:50-11:20 Ya-ping Zhang Domestications of Animals in East Asia
11:20-11:50 David AT Harper The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (GOBE): causes and consequences of diversity’s big bang
11:50-13:30   Lunch
  Chairperson Marty Kreitman
13:30-14:10 Adam Eyre-Walker The Genetic Architecture of a Complex Trait: What evolutionary biology can tell us about genome-wide association studies
14:10-14:50 Else Marie Friis
14:50-15:20 Zi-heng Yang Calibrating the molecular clock to date species divergences
15:20-15:50 Yin-Long Qiu Evolution of Life Cycle in Land Plants
15:50-16:10 Min Zhu Origin and Early Diversification of Jawed Vertebrates
16:10-16:30   Coffee Break
  Chairperson Hong Ma
16:30-17:00 Michael Benton Darwin and the tree of life
17:00-17:20 Renbing Zhan The great Ordovician biodiversification of South China: A synopsis
17:20-17:40 Xiaoquan Wang Phylogeography of plants in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau
17:40-18:00 Mingsheng Chen Dynamic Genome Evolution of the Oryza Genomes

25 Oct 2009    
  Chairperson Else Marie Friis
08:00-08:40 Thomas Cavalier-Smith The eukaryote tree: deep phylogeny and the evolution of protist body plans
08:40-09:20 Chung-I Wu Genes and Speciation - 150 years of Darwin and (nearly) 150 years of Mendel
09:20-09:50 Bailin Hao Whole-Genome Based Prokaryotic Branches in the Tree of Life
09:50-10:20 Olivier Rieppel The History of Evolutionary Thought
10:20-10:40   Coffee Break
  Chairperson Song Ge
10:40-11:20 Marty Kreitman Linking Darwinian mechanisms with the evolution of form
11:20-11:50 Jan Bergstrom The earliest arthropods and other animals
11:50-12:10 Dezhu Li Some problems in biogeographic studies in China
12:30-13:30   Lunch
  Chairperson Zhonghe Zhou
13:30-14:10 Kenneth Wolfe Comparative genomics and the aftermath of ancient polyploidization
14:10-14:50 Bruce Walsh Constraints on Multivariate Evolution
14:50-15:20 Wen Wang Origin and Functions of New Genes
15:20-15:50 Jin Meng The evolution of mammalian brain - from Darwin's The Origin to the new evidence of Mesozoic mammals
15:50-16:10   Coffee Break
  Chairperson Dexing Zhang
16:10-16:40 Jun Wen Darwin and Biogeography
16:40-17:00 Xuemei lu Asymmetry in the strength of sexual antagonism in XY vs. ZW systems – Evidence from whole-genome expression
17:00-17:20 Shunping He The fast speciation of cyprinid fish in Eastern Asia revealed by molecular phylogenetic study
17:20-17:40 Dacheng Tian Unique genetic behavior of nucleotide insertion/deletion in living organism
17:40-18:00 Deming Wang Early Diversification of Vascular Plants--Evidence from South China

26 Oct 2009   Yingjie Overseas Exchange Center
  Chairperson Douglas Futuyma
08:00-08:40 Axel Meyer Microevolutionary processes and macroevolutionary patterns of diversification in cichlid fishes: lessons from extremely young species flocks
08:40-09:10 Xing Xu The evolution of theropod hand
09:10-09:40 Jianzhi Zhang Gene Expression Noise and Evolution
09:40-10:10 Philip Currie Darwin and the Dinosaurs
10:10-10:30   Coffee Break
  Chairperson Jianzhi Zhang
10:30-11:00 Mark D. Rausher Are certain types of mutation used preferentially in evolutionary change?
11:00-11:20 Fuwen Wei Giant Panda: the Evolutionary Dead-end?
11:20-11:50 Shuhai Xiao On the eve of the Cambrian animal radiation: the Ediacaran fossil record and its implications for the early evolution of complex life forms and ecosystems
11:50-13:30   Lunch
  Chairperson Mark D. Rausher
13:30-14:00 Per Ericson Global biogeographic patterns in "higher landbirds"
14:00-14:30 Shengguo Fang Giant Panda Genomic Data Provide Insight into the Birth-and-Death Process of Mammalian Major Histocompatibility Complex Class II Genes
14:30-15:00 Junyuan Chen Deep Root of the Modern Animal Diversity
15:00-15:30 Stefan Bengtson Darwin's headache, caused by the Cambrian explosion
15:30-15:50 Coffee Break
  Chairperson Yin-Long Qiu
15:50-16:10 Hongzhi Kong Evolution of the regulatory network for floral development
16:10-16:40 Zhao-Bang Zeng QTL Mapping and Genetics Basis of Adaptation
16:40-17:10 Zhe-Xi Luo Development And Evolution Of The Mammalian Ears
17:10-17:40 Manyuan Long The pattern of new gene evolution shaped by Darwinian selection
18:00 Farewell party Zhili Clubhouse