MONDAY 3rd of June
| 9:00 – 10:30 | Arrival (waiting in hotel lounge) |
| 10:30 – 11:30 | Coffee |
| 12:00 – 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 – 14:15 | Receiving room keys and check-in |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Word of Welcome |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | Workshop 1 – Teresa Valencak |
| 16:30 – 19:00 | Coffee break and Team building activity (hiking) |
| 19:00 – 20:00 | Dinner |
| 20:00 – | Hangout/Sauna/Swimming pool |
TUESDAY 4th of June
| 8:30 – 9:30 | Breakfast |
| 9:30 – 10:30 | Plenary – Andrea Fulgione |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 – 12:10 | Session 1A Life histories Session 1B: Population genomics |
| 12:10 – 12:25 | Session Break |
| 12:25 – 13:35 | Session 2A: Behavioural ecology Session 2B: Molecular evolution |
| 13:35 – 14:35 | Lunch |
| 14:35 – 16:00 | Session 3A: Microbial ecology Session 3B: Evolutionary genetics and genomics |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Coffee Break |
| 16:30 – 18:30 | Workshop 2 – Duncan Nicholas |
| 18:30 – 20:00 | Dinner |
| 20:00 – | Surprise Event |
WEDNESDAY 5th of June
| 8:30 – 9:30 | Breakfast |
| 9:30 – 10:30 | Plenary – Hanna Kokko |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Session 4A: Behavioural ecology Session 4B: Sexual selection and evolution |
| 12:00 – 12:15 | Session Break |
| 12:25 – 13:50 | Session 5A: Theoretical evolution and modelling Session 5B: Phylogenetics |
| 13:35 – 14:35 | Lunch |
| 14:35 – 16:00 | EDI Panel |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Coffee Break |
| 16:30 – 19:00 | Poster & Alternative presentation |
| 19:00 – 20:00 | Dinner |
| 20:00 – | Hangout/Sauna/Swimming pool |
THURSDAY 6th of June
| 8:30 – 9:30 | Breakfast |
| 9:30 – 10:30 | Plenary – Julia Pawłowska |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 – 12:10 | Session 6A: Ecological genetics Session6B:Microbial ecology |
| 12:10 – 12:25 | Session Break |
| 12:25 – 13:35 | Session 7A: Evolutionary ecology Session 7B: Sexual selection and evolution |
| 13:35 – 14:35 | Lunch |
| 14:35 – 16:00 | Session 8A: Climate change Session 8B: Population genomics |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Coffee Break |
| 16:30 – 19:00 | Team building activity |
| 19:00 – | Gala dinner |
FRIDAY 7th of June
| 8:30 – 10:30 | Breakfast and Coffee |
| 10:30 – 12:00 | Plenary – Anders Bergstrom |
| 12:20 – 13:30 | Session 9A: Evolutionary genetics and genomics Session 9B: Evolutionary ecology |
| 13:35 – 14:35 | Lunch |
| 14:40 – 16:00 | Final ceremony |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Coffee Break |
| 16:30 – 17:30 | Departure |
Detailed Presenter Schedule
Tuesday 4 June
| 1A Life histories | 1B Population Genomics |
| Chandrakanth M: Breaking Canonical Life-History Trait Correlations: A Nutritional Study on Drosophila melanogaster | Tammy Ho: The role of urbanization on habitat fragmentation and population genetic structure in the Tropical Tent-Web spider (Cyrtophora citricola) in Andalucia |
| Héloïse Moullec: Effects of parental age on offspring life history trajectories in the Alpine swift. | Maria del Pilar Herrera Egoavil: Comparative study of recent contact zone of tree species in Scandinavia |
| Aaditya Narasimhan: Trait divergence across elevational gradients in Brassicaceae | Jeppe Bayer Pedersen: The Effect of Demographic Parameters on the Genetic Load in Danish Arthropod Populations |
| 2A Behavioural ecology | 2B Molecular evolution |
| Lukas Koch: Comparative Study on Brood Parasitic Interactions Between Cuckoo Catfish and Cichlids as their Hosts | Juan David Carvajal Castro: Unraveling the Evolution of Thermosensitive Ion Channels in Poison Frogs |
| Stefano Mari: The role of dietary omega 3 long chain poly-unsaturated fatty acids on brain and cognition development and ecological performance in brown trout. | Aleix Palahí i Torres: Transcriptional regulation of wing polyphenism in a hemimetabolous insect. |
| Karola Anna Barta: Impact of human-induced habitat changes on animal cultural systems | Alona Yurchenko: Cytogenetic analysis of satellite content of Madagascar leaf-tail geckos |
| 3A Microbial ecology | 3B Evolutionary genetics & genomics |
| Alessandra Giacomini: Impacts of anthropogenic environmental changes on animal microbiome: insights from two systems of wild and domesticated animals | Spyros Kanellopoulos: Genetics of reproductive isolation of pan-fungicide resistance in Aspergillus fumigatus |
| Alison Hochen: The social lives of the bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas syringae in planta | Noah Henson: Genome-scale phylogeny and comparative genomics of thermotolerant fungi |
| James McCartney: Investigating the interplay between the evolution of antimicrobial resistance and fungicide use in soil bacterial populations. | Amélie Dellong: Unveiling the Mysteries of Mollusk Epigenetics – A Multiomics Approach to study the chromatin structure of the pacific oyster Magallana gigas |
| Ana Sofia Carranco: The Interplay between Symbiotic Egg Microbiota and Fusarium Pathogens in a threatened Amazonian River turtle. | Prachitha Nagendra: Study of effect of selection, genetic drift, and gene flow on adaptation and evolution of reproductive isolation using Saccharomyces cerevisiae as model organism. |
| Matilda (Tilly) Scott: Transposable element proliferation has impacted the evolution of deep-sea amphipods. |
Wednesday 5 June
| 4A Behavioural ecology | 4B Sexual selection and evolution |
| Sarah Dobson: Temporal shifts in rut dynamics and sexual selection | Jana Kružlicová: Lessons from plants: what can Rumex hastatulus teach us about the sex chromosome evolution |
| Alina Schüller: The Ricefish Plug – an Example of a Stress Induced Evolutionary Innovation? | Pavla Novotná: Sex chromosomes and their mysteries: Hey X, how you doing? |
| Yuhan He: Carry-over effect of artificial light at night on daytime mating activity in the Amphipod Gammarus pulex | Damandeep Kaur: Effects of male limited X-chromosome evolution on sex-specific fitness |
| 5A Theoretical & Modelling | 5B Phylogenetics |
| Jannika Elfert: How do species save themselves? Evolutionary rescue in a host-parasite system | Jaime Gerardo Morin Lagos: The most comprehensive phylogenomics study of Pyrrhura genus (Arini: Psittacidae) |
| Swan Portalier: Assessing the type of selection acting on quantitative traits, from GWAS output data | Jonas Lescroart: Concordance factors, a paradigm shift in phylogenomics: case study of the small cat species of the Neotropics |
| Iris Prigent: Ecological inheritance promotes the coexistence of helpers and cheaters | Muskaan Muskaan: Molecular evolution in Bryophytes: Impact of ploidy on the efficacy of natural selection. |
| George Shillcock: Division of Labour | Nikita Tikhomirov: Genomics of manifold-polyploid aquatic monocot genus Potamogeton |
| István Oszoli: Group-selection via aggregative propagule-formation enables cooperative multicellularity in an individual based, spatial model | Jessica Frith: The evolution of sperm cell shape using phylogenetic analysis |
Thursday 6 June
| 6A Ecological genetics | 6B Microbial ecology |
| Renan Granado Chaves: Comparative analysis of gene-specific adaptive potentials across changing environments in Arabidopsis thaliana | Alanna Leale: Influence of metabolic guilds on a temporal scale in an experimental fermented food derived microbial community |
| Lina Abdelwahed: Adaptation in Endangered Arabis flooddplain species | Sara Metle’e Algahtani: Understanding the Fungal effects on clinical Klebsiella species |
| Yasar Özoglan: Adaptation in Arabis floodplain species |
| 7A Evolutionary ecology | 7B Sexual selection/evolution |
| Simone Stidsborg: Presentation of PhD Research plan for project title: ” Untangling the role of fungal network morphology in soil carbon dynamics” | Ammar Abdalrahem: Evolutionary and functional studies of the variability of reproductive modes in the poplar rust fungus, Melampsora larici-populina |
| Christopher Irving: An investigation into multi-component warning colouration | Ananda Shikhara Bhat: The evolution of ageing as a consequence of limited phenotypic plasticity |
| David Felipe Rivas Sánchez: Parallel evolution across altitude gradients in Heliconius butterflies | Sophie Helen Smith: Tracing the evolution of sex determination in the fish group with the fastest turnover of sex chromosomes |
| Justine Floret: The urban niche of Arabidopsis thaliana | Gaurav Athreya: Sex and dispersal in modular organisms |
| 8A Climate change | 8B Population Genomics |
| Louis Devresse: Modeling the Evolutionary Trajectory of Temperate Forests in the Context of Global Warming: A Process-Based Model Approach to Examining the Role of Forest Diversity in Mitigating Climate Change Impact | Sandy Jan Labarosa: Comparative transcriptomics reveals differences in gene expression patterns between annual and perennial Hordeum species |
| Luke Crosby: The effects of temperature on wild animal fertility: a meta-analysis | Alexander Hooft van Huysduynen: Heavily fished Malawi cichlids rapidly adapt to anthropogenic pressures. |
| Lola Fernández Multigner: Genetic diversity in range shifting butterflies | Nathalie Puggaard Elkær Andersen Ibsen: Butterfly genomics in progressively fragmented landscapes |
Friday 7 June
| 9A Evolutionary genetics & genomics | 9B Evolutionary ecology |
| Milena Trabert: Gene traffic to and from the Y chromosome in sexually dimorphic beetle species | Sanghamitra Kumar: Does environment dictate the nature(pre- or post-zygotic) of barriers that arise first between allopatric populations? |
| Ufuk Topolan: Genetic Differentiation of Isophya rizeensis to Environmental Dynamics | Varsa Shukla: Adaptive potential of sulfate uptake in Arabidopsis thaliana |
| Réka Gergely: Resource availability modulates the effect of body size on reproductive development | Sharumathi Natarajan: Genome Assembly and Macroevolutionary Analysis of a solitary bee host (Andrena) and its cuckoo parasite (Nomada) |
| Nathalie Brenner: Evolutionary genetics of convergent mimicry color patterns in bumblebees | Jessica Dobson: Drivers of mammalian colour evolution |
| Ingo Müller: Pick and Mix: Extensive Interspecific Admixture in Select Populations of Hybridising New Guinean Honeyeaters (Aves: Melidectes) | Gulsamal Askarovna: |

