The Evolution of Sex Determination

29 June - 1 July 2016

Dr Susana Coelho, CNRS Roscoff (FR)
Prof. Nicolas Perrin, University of Lausanne (CH)

Prof. Leo Beukeboom, University of Groningen (NL)
Dr. Tatiana Giraud, CNRS & Université Paris-Sud XI (FR)
Prof. Mark Kirkpatrick, University of Texas (US)
Prof. John Pannell, University fo Lausanne (CH)
Prof. Manfred Schartl, University of Würzburg (DE)
Dr. Frédéric Veyrunes, Université de Montpellier (FR)

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.

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1: Full attendance and active participation

1.5: Full atendance, active participation and presentation of your research

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.

Contact

Caroline Betto-Colliard
Coordinator of the Inter-University
Doctoral Program in Ecology and Evolution
Biophore building
University of Lausanne
Tel: +41 (0)21 692 4244
Fax: +41 (0)21 692 4165
E-mail: ecologie-evolution(at)cuso.ch

For scientific information:

Prof. Nicolas Perrin
Department of Ecology and Evolution
University of Lausanne
Biophore Building
E-mail: nicolas.perrin(at)unil.ch

Workshop attendance (including room and board):

PhD students of the DPEE: Free. Please note that a guarantee of 100CHF will be asked to PhD students of the DPEE. This guarantee will be given back after the workshop.

Participants from CUSO universities (Lausanne, Bern, Neuchâtel, Geneva and Fribourg): 250 CHF

All other participants: 300 CHF

Reimbursement

PhD students of the DPEE are eligible for reimbursement of incurred travel expenses by train (half-fare card, and 2nd class). Please send the original tickets (no copies, except for the general abonnement) with the reimbursement form to:

Caroline Betto-Colliard

 Doctoral Program in Ecology and Evolution

 DEE- Biophore Building

 University of Lausanne

 CH-1015 Lausanne

Registration

CUSO 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.

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