Program

Program ALPHY/AIEM 2025

The program includes four sessions of oral presentations and two poster sessions.

Oral presentations:

Monday (Feb. 3)    
13:00 - 13:15 Welcome, Speakers technical check
13:15 - 13:30 Introduction  
13:30 - 14:15 Himani Sachdeva Polygenic barriers to gene flow between species: from models to inference
14:15 - 14:30 Alexis Simon  The contribution of admixture, selection, and genetic drift to four thousand years of human allele frequency change
14:35 - 14:50 Léo Planche  Jointly recovering multiple archaic and modern introgression without archaic reference genomes
14:55 - 15:10 Rémi Tournebize  Ignoring population structure in hominin evolutionary models can lead to the inference of spurious admixture events
15:15 - 15:30 Manon Le Goff  Chromosomal footprint of a human-induced adaptive introgression and its structural variation in sea-squirts
15:35 - 16:05 Coffee Break  
16:05 - 16:20 Fantine Benoit Detecting chromosomal inversions for population genomics: what could be the optimal approach?
16:25 - 16:40 Maxence Brault  What do demographic inferences really tell us about changes in populations size ?
16:45 - 17:00 Abdelmajid Omarjee  A Fast and Robust SFS Method to Infer Population Size Changes: Insights from 35 Bird Species with Known Conservation Status
17:05 - 17:20 Johanne Adam  Unveiling Genetic Adaptations in Central and Southeast Asia: Insights from Genome-Wide Selection Scans
17:25 - 17:40 Themis Lemarchand  Detecting polygenic selection signatures using tree sequences statistics
17:45 - 18:00 Fanny Pouyet  Beyond Recombination: Exploring the Impact of Meiotic Frequency on Genome-wide Genetic Diversity
18:00     End of 1st day  
       
Tuesday (Feb. 4)  
08:30 - 09:00 Speakers technical check  
09:00 - 09:45 Elizabeth Murchison Horizontal gene transfer in transmissible cancer
09:45 - 10:00 Sophia Belkhir  Subclone dynamics and mitochondrial DNA exchange in Tasmanian devils' transmissible cancers
10:05 - 10:20 Nicolas Bierne  Hyperploidy variation and genome evolution of a mussel transmissible cancer
10:25 - 10:55 Coffee Break  
10:55 - 11:10 Flora Gaudilliere  Unwelcome guests: Characterizing the ecology and evolution of insertion sequences in prokaryotic genomes
11:15 - 11:30 Josquin Daron  Exploring contrasted transposable elements organization in mosquito genomes and the driving forces behind genome size variation
11:35 - 11:50 Ercan Seçkin  Identification of orphan genes and de novo gene birth in the evolution of plant parasitic nematodes
11:55 - 12:10 Juliette Luiselli  The interplay between neutrality and robustness selection sets an equilibrium non-coding genome size
12:15 - 13:45 Lunch Break + poster  
13:45 - 14:30 Alexa Sadier Conserved and variable modules underpin the evolution of molar shape in mammals
14:30 - 14:45 Jérémy Ganofsky  Inverse hourglass pattern of conservation in rodent molar development.
14:50 - 15:05 Claire Lavergne  Studying the co-evolution of natural killer cell receptor gene families and menstruation in mammals
15:10 - 15:25 Francisca Hervas-Sotomayor  Evolutionary insights into cell type and organ diversification across vertebrates
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break  
16:00 - 16:15 Victor Lefebvre  Evolutionary divergence of regulatory chromatin contacts following gene duplication
16:20 - 16:35 Marie Riffis  Molecular re-adaptation : compensatory evolution following deleterious episodes of GC-biased gene conversion in rodents
16:40 - 16:55 Brice Letcher  Evolution of a neo-Y chromosome in nematode species with vanishing males
17:00 - 17:15 Fabien Duez  Inference of sex chromosomes of Silene exscapa
17:20 - 19:00 poster session & beers  
19:00     End of 2nd day  

 19:30

  -  22:00 Alphy-AIEM dinner: Ninkasi La Doua, 2-4 Rue Léon Fabre, Villeurbanne [Map]

 

Wednesday (Feb. 5)

  
08:30 - 09:00 Speakers technical check  
09:00 - 09:45 François Rousset What phage-bacteria interactions teach us on innate immunity
09:45 - 10:00 Thomas Dupic  Parallel Evolution in the Antibody Response
10:05 - 10:20 Gwenaelle Vigo  Identifying genomic signatures associated with ancient and recent host-plant shifts
10:25 - 10:55 Coffee Break  
10:55 - 11:10 Jordan Moutet  Algorithms to reconstruct past indels: the deletion-only parsimony problem
11:15 - 11:30 Marie Cariou  Kefir-ensemble: integrating large-scale metagenomic data for a participatory science project
11:35 - 11:50 Louise Maille  The role of gene family size in cancer resistance among wild mammals
11:55 - 12:10 Enzo Marsot  Neural networks can predict ghost diversity from transfers
12:15 - 12:30 Conclusion  
12:35 -   Lunch (to go)  
13:30     End of Alphy-AIEM  
         

 

Poster presentations:

 

  • Banon Garcia Victor: Systematic studies on inverted repeat
  • Baruah Abhinob: Reconstructing the evolution of insect odorant receptors
  • Bouvet Emma: Unraveling UbiO: functional and evolutionary insights into a newly characterized alternative enzyme of the ubiquinone biosynthesis pathways
  • Bouyer Daniel: Molecular evolution of epigenetically regulatead male fertility genes in Arabidopsis
  • Brazier Thomas: Structural genetic diversity across the Tree of Life: development of a long-read based pipeline for robust detection of SVs
  • Carrel-Billiard Louis: Charting Evolution Through Splicing Events: A Comprehensive Screening of Proteoforms Across Species
  • Chen Augustin: Inferring demography of cell populations from somatic site frequency spectra
  • Diblasi Célian: Evolutionary history of structural variants shared between lineages of Atlantic salmon
  • Etheimer Paul: Expanding a time divergence estimation method for bacteria by expliciting an evolutionary model
  • Fernandez De Grado Quentin: Does Metabolite Toxicity Impact Gene Order in Metabolic Operons through Selection for Robust Gene Expression?
  • Gérenton Pierre: Plants phylogenomic : study of the genotype-phenotype associations across gene families
  • Goor Mahaut: Classification of the iGluRs family receptor through cross-validated phylogeny
  • Grandchamp Anna: Detect de novo genes in transcriptomes with DESWOMAN
  • Guéguen Laurent: Molecular evolution à la carte with bio++
  • Hartasànchez Diego: Clownfish adaptive radiation shaped by large-scale structural variation
  • Hévin Noémie: Species delimitation in the genomic era: the case of Parnassiinae
  • Hicks Dominique: Origin and evolution of a supergene across a clade of seaweed flies
  • Latrille Thibault: Is trait evolution better explained by time or instead by sequence divergence?
  • Maesen Sarah: Fundamental species- and virus-specific properties of the innate immune response in myotis bats, revealed by an evo-immuno-viro  comparative approach
  • Mendez-Leyva Jesus Uxue: Exploring the genomic basis underlying the diversity of host-endosymbiont interactions in Sitophilus spp. weevils
  • Montfort Jérôme: Investigating the role of gene duplication in fish phenotypic evolution
  • Mugal Carina: Applications of stochastic reproduction-selection models for the study of non-equilibrium dynamics in molecular evolution
  • Ngo Amélie : Using phylogenetic models to predict the impact of pathogenic mutations on symptom severity
  • Pavlovic Lucas: Distribution of Planktonic Protein Folds in the Oceans
  • Penel Simon: Thirdkind : Drawing reconciled phylogenetic trees up to 3 reconciliation levels
  • Salzat-Hervouette Timothée: Investigating the evolution of phototrophy in Pseudomonadota
  • Tauzin Aurélien: Estimating bacterial mutation rates with simulation-based methods (ABC)
  • Vaysset Hugo: A NADase of antiphage origin is involved in the TLR pathway
  • Verneret Marie: Exploring endogenous retroviruses in ruminant genomes: They might not be all dead after all
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