Past International Titisee Conferences

100th ITC

Genome evolution and the origin of novel gene functions


This conference aims to bring together both comparative evolutionary biologists and biomedical researchers with an interest in the evolution of genome structure and function, in particular with regard to gene and genome duplications and the origin of novel gene functions.
Chair: Axel Meyer (Konstanz, Germany)
Yves Van de Peer (Ghent, Belgium)
Date: 14-18 October, 2009
(Participation by invitation only)
Speakers include

Chris Amemiya (Seattle, WA, USA)
Detlef Arendt (Heidelberg, Germany)
Jeffrey L. Boore (Hercules, CA, USA)
Daniel Chourrout (Bergen, Norway)
Gavin C. Conant (Dublin, Ireland)
William A. Cresko (Eugene, OR, USA)
Manolis Dermitzakis (Cambridge, UK)
Denis Duboule (Geneva, Switzerland)
Hector Escriva Garcia (Banyules sur Mer, Cedex, France)
Michael R. Freeling (Berkeley, CA, USA)
Zhenlong Gu (Ithaca, NY, USA)
Thomas Holstein (Heidelberg, Germany)
Henrik Kaessmann (Lausanne, Switzerland)
Dan Larhammar (Uppsala, Sweden)
Hans Lehrach (Berlin, Germany)
Wen-Hsiung Li (Chicago, IL, USA)
Manyuan Long (Chicago, IL, USA)
Aoife McLysaght (Dublin, Ireland)
Georgia Panopoulou (Berlin, Germany)
Katherine S. Pollard (San Francisco, CA, USA)
John H. Postlethwait (Eugene, OR, USA)
Mark Rebeiz (Madison, WI, USA)
Antonis Rokas (Nashville, TN, USA)
David Sankoff (Ottawa, ON, Canada)
Nori Satoh (Okinawa, Japan)
Manfred Schartl (Wuerzburg, Germany)
Byrappa Venkatesh (Singapore)
Guenther Wagner (New Haven, CT, USA)
Wen Wang (Yunnan, China)
Greg Wray (Durham, NC, USA)