Schedule of events

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Monday, May 8th

All day Arrival & Check-in

Tuesday, May 9th

9:00am onwards Arrival &  Registration

10:00am-11:45pm Team Science Workshop Session Chairs: Pam Soltis

12:00-1:00pm Lunch break

1:00-1:15pm Opening Remarks by Organizers

1:15-3:30pm Session I Polyploidy in Agriculture & Ecology

Session Chairs: Pam Soltis and Doug Soltis

1:30-2:00pm Patrick Edger Subgenome dominance in interspecific hybrids and allopolyploids

2:00-2:15pm   Marlies Peeters Lolium, Festuca and Festulolium as a model system to study genome dominance at different ploidy levels

2:15-2:30pm Adam Healey The genome of hybrid interspecific sugarcane: how we assembled and analysed the most complex crop genome

2:30-2:45pm Christian Parisod Whole genome duplication provides genomic substrate for ecological radiation

2:45-3:00pm Elizabeth McCarthy From dark to light: the genetic basis of flower color evolution in Nicotiana tabacum allopolyploids

3:00-3:30pm Armel Salmon Duplicate, translocate, (twice), invade, hybridize, duplicate and invade : lessons from meso and neopolyploid genome evolution in Spartina (Chloridoideae, Poaceae) 

3:30-4:00pm Coffee Break

4:00-5:00pm Keynote Address Session Chairs: Pam Soltis and Doug Soltis

Yves van de Peer Life with more than one genome 

5:00-7:00pm Reception & Poster Session

Wednesday, May 10th

9:00am-12:00pm Session II Polyploidy in Ecology & Evolution

Session Chairs: Malika Ainouche and Adrian Gonzalo 

9:00-9:30am Tia-Lynn Ashman Insights into abiotic and biotic influences on polyploid establishment using population-level studies of duckweed

9:30-9:45am Zhen Fan Reanalysis of resequencing data from Fragaria species generates a new hypothesis for octoploid formation

9:45-10:00am Michael Barker Simulations support inferences of multiple rounds of whole-genome duplications in flowering plants despite high turnover of polyploid species

10:00-10:15am Kelley Leung Experimental evolution in the parasitoid Nasonia vitripennis to test the polyploid hop: bridging individual disadvantage to lineage advantage

10:15-10:30am Eric Schranz The Gynandropsis gynandra genome provides insights into whole-genome duplications and the evolution of C4 photosynthesis in Cleomaceae

10:30-11:00am Coffee Break

11:00-11:30am Kentaro Shimizu Robustness of allopolyploid species in natura: genome  shock or gradual evolution? 

11:30-11:45am Michelle Gaynor In it for the long run: Cytotype persistence under demographic and environmental stochasticity

11:45-12:00pm Michael Itgen Gene expression dynamics in polyploid unisexual salamanders

12:00-12:15pm Joel Sharbrough The consequences of whole-genome duplications for cytonuclear interactions

12:15 -1:30pm Lunch break

2:00-4:00pm Poster session #2

4:00-5:00pm Keynote Address Session Chair: Shyama Nandakumar 

Susan Gerbi Regulation of DNA Replication for DNA Amplification in Polytene Chromosomes 

5:00-6:45pm Dinner break

7:00-9:00pm Session III Polyploidy in Genome Integrity & Meiosis

Session Chairs: Tia-Lynn Ashman and Hannah Assour

7:00-7:30pm Terezie Mandakova Post-polyploid diploidization and diversification through dysploid changes

7:30-7:45pm Shengchen Shan An optimized CRISPR system in Tragopogon (Asteraceae) facilitates functional studies of genome evolution 

  following polyploidy

7:45-8:00pm Justin Conover Little Evidence for Homoeologous Gene Conversion and Homoeologous Exchange Events in Gossypium 

  allopolyploids

8:00-8:15pm Joanna Majka Non-Mendelian inheritance of parental chromosomes in interspecific plant hybrids (Lolium × Festuca)

8:15-8:30pm Kevin Bird Selection for relative gene dosage balance constrains the expression response to homoeologous exchange and 

   dosage constraint of biased homoeologs differs between subgenomes

8:30-9:00pm Adrian Gonzalo Diploidizing Polyploid Meiosis 

Thursday, May 11th

9:00am-12:00pm Session IV Polyploidy in Stress Tolerance

Session Chairs: Jinsong Liu and Shyama Nandakumar 

9:00-9:30am Vicki Losick Wound-induce polyploidization: an adaptive healing strategy

9:30-9:45am Alex Lessenger Polyploidy is essential for high rates of biosynthesis in the C. elegans intestine

9:45-10:00am Keith Adams Subgenome-dominant expression and alternative splicing in response to Sclerotinia infection in polyploid Brassica napus and progenitors

10:00-10:15am Elena Lazzeri Kidney Tubule Polyploidization during physiological ageing in mice

10:15-10:30am Archan Chakraborty Cardiomyocyte Polyploidy: Friend or a Foe?

10:30-11:00am Coffee Break

11:00-11:30am Andrew Duncan Diploid and Polyploid Hepatocytes in Liver Regeneration and Injury

11:30-11:45pm Sangita Choudhury Mutation rate increases with age in human cardiomyocytes

11:45-12:00pm Henry Heng Polyploidy: a transitional platform for creating and preserving newly emergent system information

12:00-1:00pm Lunch break

1:00 - 5:00pm Afternoon activities

5:00 - 6:45pm Dinner break

7:00 - 9:00pm Session V Polyploidy in Disease

  Session Chairs: Don Fox and Archan Chakraborty

7:00-7:30pm Bernhard Kuhn Mechanisms generating polyploid heart muscle cells and their significance for heart disease

7:30-7:45pm Ari Dehn Epithelial mechanics is maintained by inhibiting cell fusion with age in Drosophila

7:45-8:00pm Letizia De Chiara Tubular cell polyploidy protects from lethal acute kidney injury but promotes consequent fibrosis development and chronic kidney disease progression

8:00-8:15pm Michael A. Loycano The polyaneuploid cancer cell (PACC) state exhibits a novel low-myc endocycle

8:15-8:30pm Sanjay Mukherjee Polyploidy in Leukemia Cells

8:30-9:00pm Jinsong Liu Giant Cells: A New Hypothesis for Understanding Embryogenesis and Tumorigenesis Across the Tree of Life 

Friday, May 12th 

9:00-11:00am Session VI Polyploidy in Development

Session Chair: Wu-Min Deng 

9:00-9:30am Brian Calvi Unscheduled endoreplication impairs the growth and function of cells and tissues

9:30-9:45am Xiao Liu Effects of neuron size on neural development

9:45-10:00am Xian-Feng Wang Polyploidy in transition-zone imaginal ring cells is necessary for adult salivary gland morphogenesis

10:00-10:30am Adrienne Roeder Patterning endopolyploidy in Arabidopsis leaves and sepals

10:30-11:00am Coffee Break

11:00-11:15am Michaela Patterson Cardiomyocyte ploidy is dynamic during postnatal development and varies across genetic backgrounds

11: 15-11:30am Don Fox Polyploid cell cycles in organ development and injury repair 

11:30-12:00pm Closing Remarks by Organizers

12.00pm onwards Departure 

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