Coming Soon: link to Virtual Posters
MONDAY, 20 JUNE 2022
17:30 - 19:15 DINNER (MDCL 1101, South-East Corner)
16:00 - 20:00 REGISTRATION (MDCL 1101, South-East Corner)
19:15 WELCOME (MDCL 1102)
co-organizers
Bhagwati Gupta, McMaster University, Canada
Te-Wen Lo, Ithaca College, USA
Annalise Paaby, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Christian Braendle, CNRS, France
19:30 - 21:00 SOCIAL (MDCL 1101, South-East Corner)
TUESDAY 21 JUNE 2022
07:30 - 09:00 BREAKFAST (MDCL 1101, South-East Corner)
09:00 MEETING ANNOUNCEMENTS & OPENING REMARKS (co-organizers)
09:15 - 11:30 TALKS - SESSION 1 (MDCL 1102) (*indicates virtual)
09:15 Deconstructing Male Fertility: Characterizing Fitness and the Functional Role of the NSPF Gene Family during Fertilization
Katja R. Kasimatis, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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09:27 Programmed DNA elimination in Caenorhabditis
Lewis Stevens, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK
09:39 Nematode infection of male fig wasps: potential benefits for nematodes and consequences for fig-fig wasp communities
Justin Van Goor, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
09:51* Long-term imaging reveals behavioral plasticity during C. elegans dauer exit
Friedrich Preusser, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin, Germany
10:05 - 10:35 COFFEE BREAK
10:35 Males as agents in controlling brood sex ratio
Solomon Sloat, New York University, New York, USA
10:47 Genetic regulation of developmental plasticity in a predatory nematode
Shelley Reich, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA
10:59 Evolution of Polarity Establishment: The Long and Short Story
Samiksha Kaul, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
11:11 Gene identification and genome annotation in Caenorhabditis briggsae by high throughput 5’ RNA end determination
Wouter van den Berg, McMaster University, Canada
11:23 Evolution of condensin-mediated dosage compensation in nematodes
Avrami Aharonoff, New York University, New York, USA
11:35 Virtual poster lightning talks (pre-recorded)
11:45 - 13:15 LUNCH (MDCL 1101, South-East Corner)
13:30 - 16:00 TALKS - SESSION 2 (MDCL 1102) (*indicates virtual)
13:30 Updates to the Caenorhabditis Natural Diversity Resource
Erik C. Andersen, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA
13:42 Understanding adaptive evolution and cryptic speciation in C. remanei and C. latens
Daniel Fusca, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
13:54 Sensitivity of C. elegans to Orsay virus is suppressed by some bacteria and by a haao-1 reduction-of-function polymorphism
Rubén González, Institut de Biologie de l’École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
14:06 Steinernema nematodes as genetic models of mutualistic and parasitic symbiosis
Erich M. Schwarz, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
14:18* Natural variation in C. elegans genomic defense mechanisms mediated by . small RNAs
Gaotian Zhang, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA
14:30 - 15:00 COFFEE BREAK
15:00 What is the deal with all these Medea elements?
Matt Rockman, New York University, New York, USA
15:12 Mutation, selection, and the prevalence of the C. elegans heat-sensitive mortal germline phenotype
Sayran Saber, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
15:24 Genetic variation in the irld gene family affects starvation resistance
Ryan Baugh, Duke University, Durham, USA
15:36 In-person poster lightning talks
Poster titles and authors can be found here.
(Speakers will present based on assigned poster number order.)
16:00 - 18:00 POSTER SESSION 1 (Student Centre CIBC Hall)
18:00 - 19:30 DINNER (MDCL 1101, South-East Corner)
WEDNESDAY, 22 JUNE 2022
07:30 - 09:00 BREAKFAST (MDCL 1101, South-East Corner)
09:00 - 11:30 TALKS - SESSION 3 (MDCL 1102) (*indicates virtual)
09:15* The evolution of developmental genetic biases explains the evolution of evolutionary rates
Joao Picao-Osorio, Institut de Biologie de l’École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
09:27* The evolution of an RNA-based memory of self in the face of genomic conflict
Alejandro Burga, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
09:39 Single nematode genome assemblies
Erna King, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK
09:51* Sex-determination in the male/female species C. nigoni
Jonathan Harbin, Rowan University SOM, Stratford, USA
10:05 - 10:35 COFFEE BREAK
10:35 Programmed DNA elimination in Oscheius nematodes via precise scission sites is characterized by a shared sequence motif
Pablo Gonzalez de la Rosa, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK
10:47 Extensive natural genetic variation in Caenorhabditis elegans egg-laying phenotypes
Laure Mignerot, Institut de Biologie Valrose, Nice, France
10:59 Widespread changes in gene expression accompany body size evolution in nematodes
Gavin C. Woodruff, University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA
11:11* Evolutionary change in TRA-2 regulation of TRA-1 activator in the sperm/oocyte decision
Yongquan Shen, Rowan University SOM, Stratford, USA
11:23* Dissecting intracellular bacterial infection in nematode hosts
Tuan Tran, San Diego State University, San Diego, USA
11:45 - 13:15 LUNCH (MDCL 1101, South-East Corner)
13:30 - 16:15 TALKS - SESSION 4 (MDCL 1112) (*indicates virtual)
13:30 Using tetraploids to evaluate Haldane’s rule
Ronald E. Ellis, Rowan University SOM, USA
13:42 Natural genetic variation in a multigenerational non-genetic phenomena in C. elegans
Marie Saglio, Institut de Biologie de l’École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
13:54 Resistance of mitochondrial DNA to cadmium and aflatoxin B1 damage- induced point mutation accumulation C. elegans
Tess C. Leuthner, Duke University, Durham, USA
14:06 Conservation of Nematocida microsporidia gene expression and host response in Caenorhabditis nematodes
Yin Chen Wan, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
14:18* Allele specific expression suggests that genomic distance amplifies gene regulatory divergence and its compensation
Avery Davis Bell, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
14:30 - 15:00 COFFEE BREAK
15:00 Nigon element evolution and the origin of the XY sex chromosomes of filarial nematodes
Mark Blaxter, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK
15:12 Fine-mapping a novel maternal-effect lethality locus with CRISPR/Cas9- induced meiotic recombination in C. elegans
Stefan Zdraljevic, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA
15:24 Out with the old, in with the new: ion channel evolution
Cody-Jordan Handy-Hart, McGill University, St-Anne-de-Bellevue, Canada
15:36 Direct and indirect estimates of the distribution of fitness effects of mutations are not as discordant as they seem at first glance
Charles F. Baer, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
16:00 - 18:00 POSTER SESSION 2 (Student Centre Market Place)
18:00 - 19:30 DINNER (University Club Alumni Memorial Hall)
THURSDAY, 23 JUNE 2022
07:30 - 09:00 BREAKFAST (MDCL 1101, South-East Corner)
09:15 - 11:15 TALKS - SESSION 5 (MDCL 1102) (*indicates virtual)
09:15 Reproductive interference impedes species coexistence in Caenorhabditis nematodes with incomplete assortative mating and asymmetric sperm- induced harm
Rebecca Schalkowski, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
09:27 New Species of Halophile Nematodes Recovered from America’s Dead Sea
Michael Werner, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA
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09:39 High-throughput phenotyping of C. elegans wild isolates reveals specific resistance and susceptibility traits with distinct microsporidia species
Angcy Xiao, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
09:51* Quantitative high throughput measurement of selection in an animal system via novel library transgenesis
Zach Stevenson, University of Oregon, Eugene, USA
10:05 - 10:35 COFFEE BREAK
10:35* Functional divergence of orthologous temperature-sensitive mutations in C. elegans and C. briggsae
Satheeja Santhi Velayudhan, Rowan University SOM, Stratford, USA
10:47 The Rhabditid Genome Project; creating chromosome-scale reference genomes for all laboratory-cultured Rhabditida
Manuela R. Kieninger, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK
10:59 Whole-genome surveys of variation and linked selection in selfing Caenorhabditis species
Ryan McKeown, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA