Evolution of Sex and Asexual Reproduction
Autumn 2008, one day meeting Fri 5 Sep 2008
University of Bath

Scientific Programme

09.30 Registration and Coffee

Session 1. Chair: Laurence Hurst (University of Bath)

10.00 Welcome & Introduction to Symposium. 

10.10 “Spatial models for the evolution sex”
Thomas Lenormand (Montpellier, France)

10.50 “Can selection against new deleterious mutations explain the evolution of
recombination and sex?”
Peter Keightley (Edinburgh, UK)

11.30 “Genetic and environmental interactions of deleterious mutations, insights from yeast functional demonics”
Ryszard Korona (Krakow, Poland)
 
12.10   GENETICS SOCIETY BALFOUR LECTURE 2008
"Evolutionary consequences of restricted recombination in Drosophila”
Daven Presgraves (Rochester, New York)

 12.40 LUNCH

Session 2. Chair: Roger Butlin (University of Sheffield)

14.00 “Title”
Christina Burch (North Carolina, USA)

14.40 “Title”
Mike Lynch (Indiana, USA)

15.20 “he maintenance of sex, clonal dynamics, and parasite coevolution in a mixed population of sexual and asexual snails”
Jukka Jokela (Zurich, Switzerland)

16.00 Tea and Coffee 

Session 3. Chair: Brian Charlseworth (University of Edinburgh)

16.30  “Oribatids – the most ancient and diverse asexuals?”
Stefan Scheu (Darmstadt, Germany)

17.10 “Genetic variability in a freshwater ostracod with mixed reproduction modes”
Dunja Lamatsch (Mondsee, Austria)

17.50 GENETICS SOCIETY MENDEL MEDAL LECTURE
"Why have bdelliod Rotifers Not Gone Extinct?"
Matthew Meselson (Harvard, USA)