Evolution

Session Chair(s)

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  Peter Ellis, PhD (he/him/his)

  Reader in Molecular Genetics and Reproduction
  University of Kent
  Canterbury, England, United Kingdom

Session Co-Chair(s)

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  Eulalie Liorzou (she/her/hers)

  PhD Student
  Institut Pasteur, Université de Paris, CNRS UMR 3525, INSERM UA12, Comparative Functional Genomics group, F-75015 Paris, France.
  Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Presentations:

• 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM IST

  Pervasive Relaxed Selection on Spermatogenesis Genes Coincident with the Evolution of Polygyny in Gorillas
  

  Invited Oral Speaker: Vincent Lynch, PhD – University at Buffalo, SUNY
• 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM IST

  How Meiosis Can Shape Sex Chromosome Evolution and Beyond
  

  Invited Oral Speaker: Aurora Ruiz-Herrera, PhD – Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
• 11:00 AM – 11:15 AM IST

  Oviductin Plays a Crucial Role in Establishing the Species-Specificity of Mammalian Fertilization
  

  Oral Presenter: ALFONSO GUTIÉRREZ ADÁN, Sr., PhD (he/him/his) – INIA-CSIC
• 11:15 AM – 11:30 AM IST

  A Newly Identified Cilium in Meiosis Mechanically Controls Chromosomal Pairing and Germ Cell Morphogenesis in Zebrafish, Mouse, And Human Fetal Ovaries
  

  Oral Presenter: Yaniv M. Elkouby, PhD (he/him/his) – The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Medicine
• 11:30 AM – 11:45 AM IST

  Rewired Regulatory Pathways Involving Retrotransposons Impact Reproduction and Preimplantation Development
  

  Oral Presenter: Andrew J. Modzelewski, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Pennsylvania
• 11:45 AM – 12:00 PM IST

  Dampened HPG Axis Activity and Improved Reproductive Lifespan in Dummerstorf Superfertile Mouse Lines
  

  Oral Presenter: Joachim Weitzel, PhD – FBN Dummerstorf