Invited speakers

Simonetta Gribaldo – Department of Microbiology, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Lecture title: «Ancient evolution in the light of most recent genomic data»

Arndt von Haeseler – Center for Integrative Bioinformatics Vienna (CIBIV), Vienna, Austria

Lecture title: «One step mutation matrices: а fresh view on modeling sequence evolution and some applications»

Christian Bachem – Department of Plant Sciences, Wageningen University & Research Centre, Wageningen, the Netherlands

Lecture title: «Comparative analysis of the highly heterozygous potato with the homozygous tomato genome»

Konstantin Skryabin – Center «Bioengineering», Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Lecture title: TBA

Douglas Soltis – Department of Biology, University of Florida, USA

Lecture title: «Big phylogenetic trees and plant evolution»

Jim Leebens-Mack – Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, USA

Lecture title: «Phylogenomic analyses across the green plant tree of life»

Evgeny M. Zdobnov – Computational Evolutionary Genomics Group, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Geneva, Switzerland

Lecture title: TBA

Svetlana A. Burlak – Faculty of Philology (Moscow State University), Institute of Oriental Studies (Russian Academy of Sciences), Moscow, Russia

Lecture title: «Languages and Evolution»

Irina Arkhipova – Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, USA

Lecture title: «Use of phylogenetic approaches to study horizontal gene transfer and evolutionary history of gene families»

Alexandr Gorbalenya – Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics (Moscow State University), Leiden University, the Netherlands

Lecture title: «Viruses – their origin, systematics and evolution»