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Evolution, Evolvability and Change Workshop Programme

11-12 April 2018

Ron Cooke Hub, Univeristy of York

Wednesday, 11 April

09:30  Registration and refreshments
10:00  Keynote One - Tom McLeish - Are there Ergodic limits to Evolution - Abstract Tom McLeish (PDF , 113kb)
11:10 Refreshments
11:40 Alex Penn - Designing and Steering Evolution and Evolvability in Hybrid Living Systems: selective context, evolutionary processes and the properties of ante-organisms -
Abstract One (PDF , 28kb)
12:20 Zahid Hussain, Divya Dimple - Setting the foot print for managing a successul transition: Changing culture as a starting point - Abstract Two (PDF , 141kb)
13:00  Lunch
14:00   Vincent Liard, Jonathan Rouzaud-Cornabas, Guillaume Beslon - The Complexity Ratchet: Stronger than selection -  Abstract Three (PDF , 88kb)
14:40   Joanna Bryson, Alex Stewart - Diversity versus Structure: A Fundamental Axis of Variation in Evolution? - Abstract Four (PDF , 50kb)
15:20 Refreshments
16:00 Reidun Twarock - Viral evolution through the lens of geometry: new routes for antiviral therapy - Abstract Reidun Twarock (PDF , 74kb)
16:30   Susan Stepney - Open-ended evolution in silico - Abstract SS (PDF , 239kb)
17:10 Close


Thursday, 12 April

09:00  Regsitration and refreshments
09:10 Keynote Two - Marco Vignuzzi - Monitoring Virus Evolution in Sequence Space
10:10 Giuseppe Longobardi, Cristina Guardiano, Guido Cordoni, Andrea Ceolin, Dimitar Kazakov - Syntactic and Genetic Evolution of Human Populations: an Interdisciplinary Approach to Reconstructing Linguistic History Abstract - Abstract Five (PDF , 67kb)
10:50 Refreshments
11:20  Lauri Mikonranta - Experimental evolution in an agricultural pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum - Abstract Six (PDF , 230kb)
12:00 Elisa Granato - The Power of Many - Investigating the Evolution of Cooperation in Bacteria - Abstract Seven (PDF , 332kb)
12:40 Lunch
13:40 Alex Best - Co-evolution in host-parasite systems: feedbacks between ecology and evolution-  Abstract Eight (PDF , 148kb)
14:20 Keynote Three - Guillaume Belson -  Evolvability and rearrangements drive innovation in a virtual virus - Abstract Guillaume Beslon (PDF , 86kb)
15:20 Panel discussion
16:00 Refreshments and close