Sally Leys – University of Alberta, Canada Jill Harrison – University of Bristol, UK Yoshinori Tomoyasu – University of Miami, USA Phillip Donogue – University of Bristol, UK
2 – Deciphering mesoderm evolution
Organizers
Carmen Andrikou – University of Bergen, Norway Rossella Annuziata – Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn di Napoli, Italy
Stéphanie Bertrand – CNRS, France Lionel Christiaen – New York University, USA Andreas Hejnol – University of Bergen, Norway Ulrich Technau – University of Vienna, Austria
3 – The cell as an evolutionary unit
Organizers
Detlev Arendt – European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany Jacob Musser – European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
Oleg Simakov – University of Vienna, Austria Alison Cole – University of Vienna, Austria Maria Tosches – Columbia University, New York, USA Arnau Sebe Pedros – Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain
4 – The cell as a developmental unit
Organizers
Ina Arnone – Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Italy Andreas Hejnol – University of Bergen, Norway
Roberto Feuda – University of Leicester, UK Mette Handberg-Thorsager – Max Plank Institute-CBG, Dresden, Germany Chema Martin-Duran – Queen Mary University of London, UK Natascha Turetzek – Ludwig-Maximilians – University of Munich, Germany
5 – Conquering land: the first steps of plants and animals towards terrestrialization
Sabine Zachgo – University of Osnabrück, Germany Magnus Eklund – Uppsala University, Sweden
6 – Feathers, scales and hairs: evolution and development
Organizers
Miguel Brun-Usan – Lund University, Sweden Nathalie Feiner – Lund University, Sweden David Parichy – University of Virginia, USA Andrew Amman – University of Virginia, USA
Gareth Fraser – University of Florida, USA Dennis Headon – University of Edinburgh, UK Sarah Millar – University of Pennsylvania, USA Shigeru Kondo – Osaka University, Japan
7 – The Ranunculales: a new model order to understand trait evolution among angiosperms
Organizers
Catherine Damerval – Université Paris-Sud, France Sophie Nadot – Université Paris-Sud, France
Elena Kramer – Harvard University, USA Natalia Pabon-Mora/ Favio Gonzalez – Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia Veronica Di Stilio – University of Washington, USA Florian Jabbour – Museum of Natural History of Paris, France
8 – Advances in EvoDevOmic studies of sharks and rays
Organizers
Gareth Fraser – University of Florida, USA Shigehiro Kuraku – RIKEN, Japan
Shigehiro Kuraku – RIKEN, Japan José Luis Gómez-Skarmeta – CSIC / Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain Melanie Debiais-Thibaud – Université Montpellier 2, France Kate Criswell – University of Cambridge, UK
9 – The evolution of mechanical solutions to biological problems in plants
Beatriz Pinto-Goncalves – John Innes Centre, UK Yuchen Long – ENS Lyons, France Carlos Lugo-Velez – University of Cambridge, UK Asja Radja – Harvard University, USA
10 – When less is more: The role of gene loss for the evolution of development
Organizers
Lydia Gramzow – Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany Guenter Theissen – Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
Cristian Cañestro – Universitat de Barcelona, Spain Lydia Gramzow – Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany Michael Hiller – Max Planck Institute of molecular cell biology and genetics, Dresden, Germany
11 – Genomic, transgenerational and developmental processes in relation to the evolution of domesticated birds
Organizers
Carlos Guerrero-Bosagna – Linköping University, Sweden
Dana Rashid – Montana State University, USA Dominic Wright – Linköping University, Sweden Carlos Guerrero-Bosagna – Linköping University, Sweden Daniel Nuñez – University of Zurich, Switzerland
12 – What have we learned from 30 years of research on evolvability?
Organizers
Thomas Hansen – University of Oslo, Norway Mihaela Pavlicev – University of Vienna, Austria Laura Nuño de la Rosa – Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Günter Wagner – Yale University, USA Laura Nuño de la Rosa – Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Thomas Hansen – University of Oslo, Norway Mihaela Pavlicev – University of Vienna, Austria
13 – Hormones and life history strategies
Organizers
Vincent Laudet – Oceanologic Observatory of Banyuls-sur-Mer, France Sarah McMenanim – Boston College, USA Fedor Shkill – Russian Academy of Science, Moscow Russia Catarina Nunes – Gulbenkian Institute Portugal Takashi Koyama – University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Marek Jindra – Biology Centre CAS, Czech Republic Jun Kitano – National Institute of Genetics, Japan Andreas Heyland – University of Guelph, Canada Elisabeth Williams – University of Exeter, UK
14 – The Evo-Devo of Tunicates
Organizers
Lucia Manni – University of Padova, Italy Paolo Sordino – Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Italy
Billie Swalla – University of Washington, USA Benyamin Rosental – Ben Gurion University, Israel Patrick Lemaire – CRBM, Montpellier, France Chiara Anselmi – University of Padova, Italy / Stanford University, USA
15 – Transposable elements as drivers of developmental evolution
Organizers
Alex de Mendoza – The University of Western, Australia Ignacio Maeso – University Pablo de Olavide, Spain
Cassandra Extavour – Harvard University, USA Simone Immler – University of East Anglia, UK Karel Říha – Masaryk University, Czech Republic Gary Wessel – Brown University, USA
17 – Evolution of floral shape across scales
Organizers
Michael Raissig – University of Heidelberg, Germany
Marie Monniaux – ENS Lyon, France Adrien Sicard – Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden Edwige Moyroud – Cambridge University, UK Louis Ronse de Craene – Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, UK
Christopher Whitewood or Beatriz Pinto Goncalves – John Innes Centre, UK Aman Husbands – The Ohio State University, USA Madelaine Bartlett – University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA Michael Raissig – University of Heidelberg
19 – Institutional cradles of Evo-Devo
Organizers
Gerd B. Müller – University of Vienna and KLI, Austria Manfred Laubichler – Arizona State University, USA
Silvia Caianiello – Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy Samantha Muka – Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Gerd B. Müller – University of Vienna and KLI, Austria Manfred Laubichler – Arizona State University
20 – Cellular biology in development and evolution
Organizers
Margherita Perillo – Brown University, USA Zak Swartz – Whitehead Institute, Cambridge, USA
Brad Shuster – New Mexico State University, USA Stefania Castagnetti – Observatoire Océanologique de Villefranche-sur-Mer, France Alex McDougall – Observatoire Océanologique de Villefranche-sur-Mer, France Pawel Burkhardt – Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology
21 – Animal immunity at the interface of development and the microbial environment
Organizers
Jonathan Rast – Emory University, USA Catherine Schrankl – UC San Diego, USA
Kate Buckley – Auburn University, USA Thomas Bosch – Christian-Albrechts University Kiel, Germany Irene Salinas – University of New Mexico, USA Mark Austin Hanson – École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
22 – New models to study the evolution of regeneration
Mathilda Mommersteeg – University of Oxford, UK Veronica Hinman – Carnegie Mellon University, USA Stefano Tiozzo – Sorbonne Université, France Igor Schneider – Universidade Federal do Pará, Brazil
23 – Mapping eukaryotic cell types and states at single-cell resolution
Organizers
Arnau Sebé-Pedrós – Center for Genome Regulation, Barcelona, Spain Jordi Solana – Oxford Brookes University, UK
Ryan Lister – The University of Western Australia Virginia Howick – Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK Jacob Musser – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Mansi Srivastav – Harvard University, USA
24 – The evolution and development of physiological processes
Organizers
Patrick Steinmetz – Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology Nicolas Rohner – Stowers Institute for Medical Research, USA
Kristin Teßmar-Raible – University of Vienna, Austria Élio Sucena – Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciênca, Portugal Jane Reznick – Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin, Germany Aissam Ikmi – European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany
Extra sessions for contributed talks
25 – Developmental bias
Organizers
Gerd B. Müller – University of Vienna and KLI, Austria
26 – The Evo-Devo of mechanical solutions to biological problems in animals
27 – Eco-Evo-Devo
Organizers
Tom Van Dooren – Sorbonne Université, France Ivan Gomez Mestre – Estación Biológica de Doñana – CSIC, Spain
28 – Advances in EvoDevOmic studies
Organizers
Antonia Monteiro – National University of Singapore, China
