EVOLUTION 5 June Plenary presentations: 9.00-11.00 Co-Chairmen: M.S. Gelfand, S.G. Inge-Vechtomov Polezhaev A.A. (RAS, Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia) (30 min) Biological self-organization in terms of physics Menshutkin V.V. (Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry, RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia) (30 min) Principles of evolution modelling Rozanov A.Yu. (Paleontological Institute, RAS, Moscow, Russia) (30 min) Evolution of biodiversity Kozlov A.P. (Biomed. Center and St.Petersburg Polytech. Un., St. Petersburg, Russia) (30 min) Evolution by tumor neofunctionalization and phenomenon of carcino-evo-devo genes 11.20-13.20 Co-Chairmen: M. Lynch, V.V. Menshutkin Gelfand M.S. (A.A. Kharkevich Inst. for Information Transmission Problems, RAS) (30 min) Evolution of bacterial genomes Tikhonovich I.A. (All-Russia Research Institute for Agricultural Microbiology, St. Petersburg, Russia) (30 min) Microevolution processes in microbial-plant symbiosis Chabovsky A.V. (A.N. Severtsov Inst. of Ecology and Evolution, RAS, Moscow, Russia) (30 min) Evolution of ethological structure of populations Daev Eu., Dukelskaya A.V. (Dept. Genetics & Biotechnology, St. Petersburg St. Un., St. Petersburg, Russia) (30 min) The central nervous system of mammals acts as a mutagenic/anti-mutagenic factor (possible role in the microevolution) 2 JUNE Poster session: Evolution principles 13.00-14.00 Artamonova V.S., Ivanova T.S. et al (St. Petersburg St. Un.; Zoological Inst., St. Petersburg; A.N. Severtsov Inst. of Ecology and Evolution, Moscow, Russia) Predominance of females in White Sea populations of three-spined stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus: phenotypic and genotypic screening Chervontseva Z.S., Stavrovskaya E.D. (Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics Lomonosov Moscow St. Un., Moscow, Russia) Novel algorithm for reconstruction of operon structure evolution Gulevich E.P., Kuznetsova L.V. (St. Petersburg Konstantinov Inst. of Nuclear Physics, Gatchina; St Petersburg St. Polytechnical Un., St. Petersburg, Russia) Functional characterization of uvrD helicase from Deinococcus radiodurans R1 in Escherichia coli K-12 cells Kharchenko V., Telepova-TexierM. (Botanical Garden-Inst. FEB RAS; Far Eastern Federal Un.; Dép. des Jardins Botaniques et Zoologiques, Muséum Natl d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN) Paris, France) Space of possibilities for the evolution for inflorescence of Cymbidium Sw. and Acriopsis Bl. (Orchidiaceae) Khokhutkin I.M. (Inst. of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Branch of RAS, Ekaterinburg, Russia) The principle of signatures in biology Klyucharev V.V., Klyuchareva S.V (Inst. of problems of chemical physics, RAS, Chernogolovka, Russia) The geometric principles and mechanisms of progressive self-organization for the reproduction of one’s similar Kochanova E., Fefilova E. Sukhikh N (Inst. of Biology Komi Scientific Centre Ural Branch of RAS, Syktyvkar; Zoological Inst. of RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia) Molecular genetics and morphological diversity of Canthocamptus staphylinus jurine (Harpacticoida, Copepoda) Nesterenko Y.M. (Dep. of Geoecology of the Orenburg scientific center, Ural branch of RAS, Orenburg, Russia) The development of the biosphere of the steppe zone of the Southern Urals in natural and anthropogenically modified environments and its planetary value Suslov V.V. (Inst. of Cytology and Genetics, SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia) To small populations: access granted yet denied? Gunbin K.V., Suslov V.V., et al (Inst. of Cytology and Genetics, SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia) Conservative fulcrum for evolution progress 5 JUNE Discussion: Evolution principles 16.30- 17.00