Program ALPHY 2024

February 5-6^th, Montpellier

30th anniversary edition
Read the history of this working group from its beginnings (in French) "Je vous parle d'un temps ..." by Alain Guénoche

Day 1 - Monday 5th February

10:00 10:30 Welcome + coffee 

Session 1:

Chairman : Benoit Nabholz

10:30 11:25 Invited speaker : Jonathan Romiguier “Evolutionary genomics and unusual reproductive systems in eusocial insects”

11:25 11:50 Brice Letcher “A role for transposons in the evolution of programmed DNA elimination in Mesorhabditis nematodes”

11:50 12:15 Alba Marino “Effective population size does not explain transposable elements and genome size variation in animals”

12:15 12:40 Tessarotto Hugo “Convergent evolution of sex chromosomes in Palms”

12:40 14:00 Lunch

 Session 2:

Chairwoman : Anna-Sophie Fiston-Lavier

14:00 14:25 Morel Marie “What might the earliest flowers have looked like?”

14:25 14:50 Tesson Florian “How to explore the diversity of antiphage arsenal in prokaryotes?”

14:50 15:15 Carina Mugal “A framework for the study of population-level processes in phylogenetics”

15:15 15:40 Sassolas Fabien “GC-content oscillations linked to nucleosome positioning across eukaryotes”

15:40 16:15 Coffee break - poster session

Session 3:

Chairwoman : Céline Scornavacca

16:15 16:40 Annabelle Haudry “Relaxed purifying selection is associated with an accumulation of transposable elements in flies”

16:40 17:05 Damien de Vienne “Ghost lineages and the study of gene flow. Bias and opportunities”

17:05 17:30 Nikolai Romashchenko “Alignment-free phylogenetic placement with informative k-mers”

17:30 17:55 Nicolas Galtier “An approximate likelihood method reveals ancient gene flow between human, chimpanzee and gorilla”

Day 2 - Tuesday 6th February 

Session 4:

Chairman : Frédéric Delsuc

9:00 9:50 Invited speaker : Rosa Fernandez “Science (fiction) stories of hopeful monsters and genomic dark matter”

9:50 10:15 Mathilde Barthe “Museomic challenges to delimit the nine-banded armadillo species complex”

10:15 10:40 Coffee break  - poster session

Session 5: 

Chairman : Michael Fontaine

10:40 11:05 Riffis Marie “Analysis of compensatory evolution following gBGC events using whole-exome phylogenetic analysis in Murinae”

11:05 11:30 Julien Joseph “High prevalence of PRDM9-independent hotspots in placental mammals”

11:30 11:55 Daunesse Maëlle “Phylogenetic modeling of gene expression shifts in the mole-rat clade”

12:20 12:40 An Hyerin “Smaller chromosomes exhibit denser transposable elements with less efficient purifying selection in Lepidoptera”

 12:40 13:45 Lunch 

Session 6: 

Chairwoman : Sèverine Berard

14:10 14:35 Yves Clement “The effect of chromosomal rearrangements on base composition evolution in mammals”

14:35 15:00 Margaux Lefebvre “Unraveling the complex and uncertain journey of Plasmodium vivax malaria in the Americas: a genomic perspective”

15:00 15:25 Laurent Guéguen “Using substitution mapping to detect branch-site positive selection”

15:25 15:50 Stéphane Guindon “Velocity of evolving lineages”

15:50 16:15 Closing words