Workshop on the project “The effects of pollution on rapid evolution and ecological change in the
Mediterranean mussel (Mytilus galloprovincialis)”
Island Mljet, Croatia, 15th – 19th September 2014
Monday, September 15th_______________________________________________________________________________________________________
Travel UK/Zagreb – Zadar – Ston - Mljet
14.00 Ston: Workshop lunch
19.00 arrival at Research station on Mljet
Welcome reception and introductory discussions
Tuesday, September 16th______________________________________________________________________________________________________
9.00-9.15 Opening remarks, Prof. Goran Klobučar and Dr. Patrik Nosil
9:15-10:30 Mytilus and eco-toxicogenomic talks
Anamaria Štambuk, University of Zagreb, Croatia
„The effects of pollution on rapid evolution and ecological change in the Mediterranean mussel (Mytilus
galloprovincialis)”
Dorotea Polović, University of Zagreb, Croatia
“Stress and genotoxicity biomarkers in the Mediterranean mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis”
Vid Baković, University of Zagreb, Croatia
“Mussel shell morphometry”
Helene Collin, University of Liverpool, UK
“Evolution on ecological timescales: a role for non-genetic inheritance in adapting to novel anthropogenic
stressors?”
Anamaria Štambuk, University of Zagreb, Croatia
„Impact of coastal pollution on reproductive fitness and evolution of marine snail Hexaplex trunculus”
10:30-11:00 coffee/break
11:00-12:30pm
Workshop on Mytilus data (lack of IBD, interpreting experimental results, epigenomic data analyses)
12:30-1pm Timema talks
Victor Sorria-Carasco, Moritz Muschick, Stuart Dennis, University of Sheffield, UK
"Genomic divergence and the speciation continuum in the adaptive radiation of Timema stick insects"
1.00-3.00pm lunch
3.00-4:30pm Timema talks
Aaron Comeault, University of Sheffield, UK
"Selection on a genetic polymorphism counteracts ecological speciation"
Dorothea Lindke, University of Sheffield, UK
"Modeling the genomics of admixture and selection in hybrid zones"
Patrik Nosil, University of Sheffield, UK
“Repeated genome divergence during parallel speciation”
4:30-8.00pm
Workshop on Timema data (connecting datasets, further data mining in new contexts, ideas for new
analyses)
Workshop on connecting ideas and results from the two systems (mussels and stick insects)
Wednesday, September 17th____________________________________________________________________________________________________
9.00-1.30pm
Maja Šrut, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Genomic responses to genotoxic stress in zebrafish (Danio rerio)
Kei Matsubayashi, University of Sheffield, UK
“Species radiation of lady bird beetles in Japan”
Goran Klobučar, University of Zagreb, Croatia
“Role of the Dinaric Karst, Messinian salinity crisis and Pleistocene marine regressions in shaping the
evolutionary history of the crayfish genus Austropotamobius”
Jure Skejić
“Evolution of the venom proteome in the populations of the eastern Australian Brown snake Pseudonaja
textilis (Serpentes: Elapidae)”
Romain Villoutreix, University of Sheffield, UK
"Spatial and temporal scale of adaptation in Arabidopsis thaliana: Integrating phenotypic plasticity in the
study of adaptation."
Jessica Stapley, University of Sheffield, UK
"Population divergence and reproductive isolation in an Anolis lizard."
2.00-7.00pm lunch and visit to Mljet National Park
7.30-8.30 pm Plenary talk
Tomislav Domazet- Lošo, Institute Ruđer Bošković, Zagreb, Croatia
”Macroevolution: The roots of good and evil go deep in time.”
Thursday, September 18th________________________________________________________________________________________________________
8-5pm Excursion to Dubrovnik
Travel to Ježevići ecological station
9.00 Workshop dinner and closing discussions
Friday, September 19th___________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Departure
List of participants
University of Sheffield
Patrik Nosil
p.nosil@sheffield.ac.uk
Víctor Soria-Carrasco
victor.soria.carrasco@gmail.com
Moritz Muschick
m.muschick@sheffield.ac.uk
Aaron Comeault
aacomeault@gmail.com
Stuart Dennis
stuart.dennis@sheffield.ac.uk
Kei Matsubayashi
K.Matsubayashi@sheffield.ac.uk
Doro Lindtke
dlindtke@uwyo.edu
Romain Villoutreix
romain.villoutreix@gmail.com
Jessica Stapley
j.stapley@sheffield.ac.uk
Mar Marzo Llorca
nunatac@gmail.com
University of Liverpool
Hélène Collin
H.Collin@liverpool.ac.uk
University of Zagreb
Goran Klobučar
gklobuca@biol.pmf.hr
Maja Šrut
msrut@biol.pmf.hr
Dorotea Polović
dorotea.polo@gmail.com
Vid Baković
vidbakovic@gmail.com
Aleksandar Lazić
alazic21@gmail.com
Anamaria Štambuk
astambuk@biol.pmf.hr
Zvonimir Šamija
shamija21@gmail.com
Institute Ruđer Bošković, Zagreb
Tomislav Domazet-Lošo
tdomazet@irb.hr
Monash University
Jure Skejić
jure.skejic@gmail.com