Detailed information about the course
Title | The Evolution of Sex Determination |
Dates | 29 June - 1 July 2016 |
Organizer(s) | Dr Susana Coelho, CNRS Roscoff (FR) |
Speakers | Prof. Leo Beukeboom, University of Groningen (NL) |
Description | Sex determination (SD) can be achieved through an impressive diversity of mechanisms. Many species (including some fish and reptiles) display environmental sex determination (with a switch determined by e.g. temperature, age, social cues, etc). If genetic, SD may be polygenic (many genes on different chromosomes) or monogenic (one single master gene). The latter case may lead to the evolution of highly differentiated sex chromosomes (as observed in birds or mammals), but not necessarily so (many fish and amphibians).
What are the mechanisms underlying alternative sex determination pathways? What are their costs and benefits (in particular regarding sex-ratio production)? What are their consequences in terms of demographic processes or genomic evolution? What selective forces drive transitions among systems, which seem frequent on an evolutionary time scale?
These main questions (and others) will be addressed during a 3-days meeting, for which we invited about six senior scientists covering wide areas of these topics. |
Location |
La Sage (VS) |
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Credits | 1-1.5 |
Evaluation | 1: Full attendance and active participation 1.5: Full atendance, active participation and presentation of your research |
Information | Priority is given to PhD students of the DPEE until 20th of December, 2015. After this deadline, the workshop will be announced and open for registration to a larger audience. Participants are greatly encouraged to present their work through talks. Please send your abstracts (.pdf) to [email protected] before 31th of March 2016. PRIORITY will be given to participants presenting their research.
ContactCaroline Betto-Colliard
For scientific information: Prof. Nicolas Perrin |
Expenses | Workshop attendance (including room and board):
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Registration | RegistrationCUSO PhD students: through your MyCUSO account. Priority is given to PhD students of the DPEE until 20th of December, 2015. After this deadline, the workshop will be announced and open for registration to a larger audience.
External participants (non-CUSO PhD students, post-docs, etc...): use the icon "registration" at top of page and the last gray box "non-CUSO student" ("personne hors myCUSO").
Participants are greatly encouraged to present their work through talks. Please send your abstracts (.pdf) to [email protected] before 31th of March 2016. PRIORITY will be given to participants presenting their research. |
Places | 30 |
Deadline for registration | 09.08.2016 |