Women in Evolutionary Biology

14 May 2024, 09:00 → 16 May 2024, 21:00 Europe/Berlin

Lecture Hall (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology)

 

Women in Evolutionary Biology is an event to promote diversity and equality in the field. For this purpose, we bring together female scientists from different backgrounds working in evolutionary biology for scientific presentations and discussion sessions on topics relevant for women in science. 

The event’s main focus is science, and while all keynote speakers are women, everyone is welcome to participate by giving a short scientific talk or presenting a poster. We also aim to facilitate discussions about being a woman in academia. Thus, the conference includes dedicated discussion sessions addressing relevant topics that currently affect female scientists during their professional development.

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Key Dates

• Workshop Dates: 14 - 16 May 2024

• Application deadline: Applications are now closed

• Sessions registration deadline: Registration to some of the sessions is required, because they are limited to a few number of participants or are optional. Confirmed participants need to register for sessions until May 10. 

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Place

The workshop is hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, located in the beautiful lakeside town of Plön (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)

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• Keynote speakers

• Format

• Practical information

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Tuesday, 14 May

09:15 → 09:35 Welcome words & announcements

09:35 → 10:35 MPI Evolbio Female Group Leaders talks

Anja Günther, Eva Stukenbrock, Hildegard Uecker, Jenna Gallie

Linda Odenthal-Hesse
Research group: Meiotic Recombination and Genome Instability

10:35 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:00 Keynote speaker: Rosemary Grant

12:00 → 12:30 Short talk: Sarah Gaugel

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 13:50 Short talk: Kim Rohlfing

13:50 → 14:10 Short talk: Shabnam Mohammadi

14:10 → 14:30 Short talk: Guadalupe Lopez Nava

14:30 → 14:45 Short Break

14:45 → 14:55 MPI Evolbio Female Group Leaders talks: Eva Stukenbrock

Anja Günther, Eva Stukenbrock, Hildegard Uecker, Jenna Gallie

Linda Odenthal-Hesse
Research group: Meiotic Recombination and Genome Instability

14:55 → 15:55 Keynote speaker: Ayari Fuentes-Hernandez

15:55 → 16:10 Coffee Break

16:10 → 16:30 Short talk: Ursula Oggenfuss

16:30 → 16:50 Short talk: Umilaela Arifin

16:50 → 17:10 Short talk: Berrit Katharina Czinczel

17:10 → 17:30 Short Break

17:30 → 18:30 Discussion session: Miriam, Bibiana, Deepa

There are three parallel sessions. Each will be held in a different room: Lecture Hall, Practical Room, Villa Meeting Room

18:30 → 19:30 Dinner

19:30 → 20:30 A journey through evolutionary biology history: Nikoleta Glynatsi

Wednesday, 15 May

09:15 → 10:15 Keynote speaker: Katarína Bodová

10:15 → 10:35 Short talk: Qianci Yang

10:35 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Poster session: all posters

Amy MacLeod: Studying Galapagos marine iguanas using drones, citizen science, and machine learning

Anika Du Plessis: Design of a computational model to simulate the evolution of protometabolic pathways

Anamika Nanda: Inflammation mediates the relationship between moderate to vigorous physical activity and telomere length in middle to older age adults

Aysha Chowdhury: Unveiling growth promotion and inhibition in bacterial communities

Clara Moreno-Fenoll: Polar accumulation of pyoverdin and exit from stationary phase

Emily Booms: Differences in growth ability and competition due to environmental variation in freshwater ciliates

Francisca Hervas: Evolutionary insights into cell type and organ diversification across vertebrates

Gisela T. Rodríguez-Sánchez: Short- and long-term strategies for the evolution of a specialized bacteria life cycle

Jannika Elfert: How do species save themselves? Evolutionary rescue in a host-parasite system

Kaumudi Prabhakara: Co-evolution of yeast-bacterial communities in fluctuating environments

Kerry Gendreau: Comparative cellular evolution across vertebrate brains

Lavisha Parab: Chloramphenicol reduces phage resistance evolution by suppressing bacterial cell surface mutants

Lingfeng Meng: Fisheries-induced evolution in North Atlantic

Nataša Puzović: When is gene expression noise advantageous?

Rajalekshmi Narayana Sarma: (Epi)genetic regulators of recombination rate evolution

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:30 Mentoring Session: Rosemary Grant

14:30 → 15:15 Walk to Café. Take a picture at the café / lakeside

15:15 → 16:45 Scientific speed dating at the Café: Amanda de Azevedo-Lopes

16:45 → 17:30 Walk back to the Institute

17:30 → 18:30 Keynote speaker: Miriam Liedvogel

18:30 → 19:30 Dinner

19:30 → 20:30 "(Un-)successful diversity measures" session

Thursday, 16 May

09:15 → 10:15 Keynote speaker: Deepa Agashe

10:15 → 10:35 Short talk: Manasvi Balachandran

10:35 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:30 Poster session

Amy MacLeod: Studying Galapagos marine iguanas using drones, citizen science, and machine learning

Anika Du Plessis: Design of a computational model to simulate the evolution of protometabolic pathways

Anamika Nanda: Inflammation mediates the relationship between moderate to vigorous physical activity and telomere length in middle to older age adults

Aysha Chowdhury: Unveiling growth promotion and inhibition in bacterial communities

Clara Moreno-Fenoll: Polar accumulation of pyoverdin and exit from stationary phase

Emily Booms: Differences in growth ability and competition due to environmental variation in freshwater ciliates

Francisca Hervas: Evolutionary insights into cell type and organ diversification across vertebrates

Gisela T. Rodríguez-Sánchez: Short- and long-term strategies for the evolution of a specialized bacteria life cycle

Jannika Elfert: How do species save themselves? Evolutionary rescue in a host-parasite system

Kaumudi Prabhakara: Co-evolution of yeast-bacterial communities in fluctuating environments

Kerry Gendreau: Comparative cellular evolution across vertebrate brains

Lavisha Parab: Chloramphenicol reduces phage resistance evolution by suppressing bacterial cell surface mutants

Lingfeng Meng: Fisheries-induced evolution in North Atlantic

Nataša Puzović: When is gene expression noise advantageous?

Rajalekshmi Narayana Sarma: (Epi)genetic regulators of recombination rate evolution

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 13:50 Short talk: Jule Neumann

13:50 → 14:10 Short talk: Marjan Ghotbi

14:10 → 14:30 Short talk: Maria Virginia Ramirez Montoya

14:30 → 14:45 Short Break

14:45 → 15:45 Keynote speaker: Bibiana Rojas

15:45 → 16:10 Coffee break

16:10 → 17:10 Discussion session: Rosemary, Katarina, Ayari

There are three parallel sessions. Each will be held in a different room: Lecture Hall, Practical Room, Villa Meeting Room

17:10 → 17:45 Wrapping up - discussion session - survey + box

17:45 → 18:00 Closing remarks

18:00 → 19:00 BBQ