UCL RESEARCH DEPARTMENT OF
GENETICS EVOLUTION AND ENVIRONMENT
GEE Retreat 2012
Thursday 19 April – Friday 20 April 2012
Cumberland Lodge, Windsor Great Park, Surrey
Website: http://www.cumberlandlodge.ac.uk/ Tel: 01784 432316 (switchboard)
Programme
Organisers: Andrew Pomiankowski (Head of Department)
Max Telford
Jane Dempster (Executive Officer to HoD)
THURSDAY 19 APRIL 2012
Talks take place in the Sandby and Hodgson Rooms, Cumberland Lodge
13:00
Depart UCL by Windsorian coach (outside Bloomsbury Theatre)
14:00
Arrivals and Registration, briefing by Lodge Manager and check in to rooms
15:00
Tea
Talk session 1: CHAIR: Andrew Pomiankowski
15:30-16:15
Introduction by Andrew Pomiankowski
Talk 1: Julia Day
Title: From lakes to continents: Studying African fish radiations
16:15-17:00
Talk 2: Greg Hurst, University of Liverpool
Title: Extended genomes: how heritable symbionts alter our views of evolution
Greg Hurst is an honorary Reader at UCL, and has also held visiting fellowships at the Agricultural University of Wageningen (1995),
the Netherlands, and the Agency of Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan (2000).
He is on the editorial board of Heredity, the Journal of Evolutionary Biology, and BMC Evolutionary Biology. He is a member of the
American Society of Naturalists, the Genetics Society, ASAB, ESEB, The British Ecological Society, and the Royal Entomological
Society. He is interested in the effect of parasites on the design and population biology of their hosts. His main thesis is that most
aspects of animal biology, from physiology and anatomy through to behaviour, are in some sense ‘designed’ by the need to avoi d the
actions of parasites. He is particularly interested in the influence of parasites on the design of animal reproductive systems, and on the
functioning of invertebrate immune systems. He has obvious reciprocal interests in the parasites that affect these systems.His interest
covers all manner of parasites, from classical infectious disease through sexually transmitted infections to ‘inherited pathogens’ and
selfish genetic elements. If it causes damage, and causes it frequently, it will be an important aspect of host design and worth
studying.
Webpage: http://pcwww.liv.ac.uk/~ghurst/people/peoplegreghurst.html
17:00-17:15
30 mins short break
17:15-18:15
CHAIR: Eugene Schuster
Academic ‘Speed-dating’
Free time
19:00-19:30
Pre-dinner Drinks (from the bar)
19:30-20:30
Dinner
Talk session 2: CHAIR: Dallas Swallow
20:30-21:30
Cumberland Lodge Drawing Room
Talk 3: David Colquhoun: Open Access publication
Professor D Colquhoun, FRS held the established (A.J. Clark) chair of Pharmacology at UCL, and was the Hon. Director of the
Wellcome Laboratory for Molecular Pharmacology. In October 2004, he became a Research Fellow. Like many previous holders of
the chair (in particular, A.J. Clark, J.H. Gaddum, H.O. Schild and J.W. Black) his interests are in quantitative analysis of receptor
mechanisms.
He graduated from Leeds with a BSc and then went to Edinburgh to work for a PhD. After doing research at University College from
1964-69 on immunological problems and completing a book on statistics, he went to Yale University to work on nerve conduction.
After returning from the USA he eventually returned to the Pharmacology Department at UCL in 1979, and has worked on single ion
channel mechanisms since then. In 2004, he was made an Honorary Fellow of University College London.
UCL home page http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc.html
or www.dcsite.org.uk
Blog: Improbable Science http://dcscience.net/
RSS feed http://dcscience.net/?feed=rss2
OneMol One stop shop for UCL single ion channel work http://www.onemol.org.uk/
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FRIDAY 20 APRIL 2012
08:15– 09:15 Breakfast and clear rooms
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09:30-11:00
CHAIR: Andrew Pomiankowski
General discussion: Future strategy for GEE
(09:30
11:00-11:30
Anderson Travel Coach departs UCL Gordon Street to arrive by 11:00)
Coffee and Arrival of the Post-docs
Talk session 3: CHAIR: Max Telford
11:30-12:30
Research grants
12:30-13:00
CHAIR: Tim Blackburn, IoZ
Talk 4: IoZ Theme leader presentations
Title: An Introduction to the Institute of Zoology
Discussion
13:00-14:00
Lunch
Talk session 4: CHAIR: Max Reuter
14:00-14:30
Talk 5: Judith Mank
Title: The evolution of sexual dimorphism: from gene expression to phenotypes
Discussion
14:30-15:00
Talk 6: François Balloux
Title: The Long March of human genes
Discussion
15.00-15.30
Tea
Talk session 5: CHAIR: Paola Oliveri
15.30-16.00
Talk 7: Nick Luscombe (GEE/UGI/Crick)
Title: Transcription regulation in 3D: how to model and predict gene expression in the
developing fly embryo
Discussion
16.00-16.30
Talk 8: Ziheng Yang
Title: Using genomic data to delimit species
Discussion
17:00
Depart by Anderson Travel coach for return to UCL
PARTICIPANTS
UCL
Jurg Bähler
David Balding
François Balloux
Julia Day
Kevin Fowler (Friday morning only)
David Gems
Daniel Jeffares
Nick Lane
Nick Luscombe
Nikolas Maniatis
Judith Mank
David Murrell
Paola Oliveri
Andrew Pomiankowski
Nichola Raihani
Max Reuter
Hilary Richards
Eugene Schuster
Hazel Smith
Dallas Swallow
Max Telford
Mark Thomas
Astrid Wingler
Ziheng Yang
IoZ/ZSL
Tim Blackburn (Director)
Chris Carbone
Guy Cowlishaw
Andrew Cunningham
Sarah Durant
Total: 45 plus possibly 3 PhD students on Fri.
Jane Dempster (mob: 0780-3253476)
Guest speakers
David Colquhoun, FRS (NPP, UCL)
& his wife, Margaret
Greg Hurst (Univ of Liverpool)
Post-docs
Lawrence Bellamy
Danny Bitton
Nadine Chapman
Julie Collet
Susmita Datta (UGI Manager)
Bernhard Egger
Robin Freeman (CoMPLEX)
Francois Lapraz
Mario Reis
Dace Ruklisa
Samuel Marguerat
PhD students
David Ellis (tbc)
Sara Fuentes
James Howie
Alison Jameson (tbc)
OBJECTIVES
This Retreat will be a unique opportunity for everyone to get to know each other well, and to generate new collaborations,
share ideas and forge friendships. We aim to build on the two previous Away Days held at Chandler House, in convivial
and elegant surroundings, in the hope that we can repeat this event on an annual basis (funds and/or sponsorship
permitting).
Numbers are kept relatively small to encourage maximum interaction and participation.
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