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2025-07-20 Sunday

Lobby of Conference Building (UTC+8)

12:00-18:00 (UTC+8) | REGISTRATION OPEN

Auditorium, Conference Building (UTC+8)

17:45-18:00 (UTC+8) | Opening session
18:00-19:00 (UTC+8) | Keynote 1: President Ziheng Yang
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 18:00-19:00 Keynote speech

Six impossible things to believe before breakfast, about gene flow

Ziheng Yang University College London

Fountain Square (UTC+8)

19:00-21:00 (UTC+8) | Welcome cocktail

Meeting Room 1, Conference Building (UTC+8)

14:00-16:00 (UTC+8) | Workshop 1: Analyzing genomic diversity and modeling complex admixture history

Meeting Room 2, Conference Building (UTC+8)

14:00-16:00 (UTC+8) | Workshop 2: A Short Trip Exploring Beast2

Meeting Room 3, Conference Building (UTC+8)

14:00-16:00 (UTC+8) | Workshop 3: Use of BPP to infer gene flow from genomic sequence data

Meeting Room 4, Conference Building (UTC+8)

14:00-16:00 (UTC+8) | Workshop 4: Getting your work published

Space - TBA (UTC+8)

08:00-18:00 (UTC+8) | Council meeting (council members only)

2025-07-21 Monday

Auditorium, Conference Building (UTC+8)

08:20-08:30 (UTC+8) | Introduction to Day 2
08:30-10:30 (UTC+8) | Graduate Student Excellence symposium
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 08:30-08:45 Selected talk

Sex-biased duplicates are generated during metazoan tRNA repertoire expansion

Dylan Sosa University of Chicago
2 08:45-09:00 Selected talk

Disentangling Complex Histories of Hybridisation: The Genomic Consequences of Ancient and Recent Introgression in Channel Island Monkeyflowers

Aidan Short University of South Carolina
3 09:00-09:15 Selected talk

The march to land: unearthing how gene repertoire evolution triggered terrestrialization across the Animal Tree of Life

Gemma Martínez-Redondo Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-UPF)
4 09:15-09:30 Selected talk

A fresh approach for estimating selection on synonymous codons.

Hannah Verdonk Temple University
5 09:30-09:45 Selected talk

Estimating effective population size from ARGs: An EM-based approach incorporating coalescent time uncertainty

Kaiyuan Li UC Berkeley
6 09:45-10:00 Selected talk

How museomics can be used to reveal whether insect genomes experienced recent anthropogenic changes

Philipp Hummer Vienna Graduate School of Population Genetics
7 10:00-10:15 Selected talk

Insights into the development of multiple sperm types and evolving sex chromosomes in drosophila species

Huangyi He Zhejiang University
8 10:15-10:30 Selected talk

Coupling AI and SMC-based algorithms: Inference of population structure from single genome sequencing analysis

Alba Nieto MNHN-PSL
18:00-19:00 (UTC+8) | Keynote 2: Peter Holland
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 18:00-19:00 Keynote speech

How and why should we sequence thousands of genomes?

Peter Holland University of Oxford

Room 1, Building No. 8 (UTC+8)

11:00-13:00 (UTC+8) | Symposium 1: Crop evolution: from Darwin's legacy to genomics of admixture and climate resilience
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 11:00-11:30 Invited talk

Plant physiological models: what are they and can they be used to help address questions evolutionary in nature?

Diane Wang Purdue University
2 11:30-11:45 Selected talk

Evolutionary genomics of climatic adaptation and resilience to climate change in alfalfa

Fan Zhang Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, CAAS
3 11:45-11:50 Flash talk

A haplotype-based evolutionary history of barley domestication

Yu Guo Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research
4 11:50-11:55 Flash talk

Molecular adaptation and the geographic spread of japonica rice in Asia

Ornob Alam New York University
5 11:55-12:00 Flash talk

Describing wild Brassica rapa accessions and their genetic variation across Eurasia

Uliana Kolesnikova MPI for Plant Breeding Research
6 12:00-12:05 Flash talk

Patterns of selection for adaptation to spatial and temporal fluctuating nitrogen availability in maize

Jinliang Yang University of Nebraska-Lincoln
7 12:05-12:15 Rest

Rest

8 12:15-12:30 Selected talk

Untangling the complex domestication of potato: A LD-based method for polyploid genomics

Sergio Tusso LMU Munich
9 12:30-12:35 Flash talk

Archaeogenomics of maize evolution in the South American Andes

Shuya Zhang The University of Warwick
10 12:35-12:40 Flash talk

Simulation-informed population-genomic analyses reveal the Western-Himalayan origin of the common walnut

Caijin Chen Beijing Normal University
11 12:40-12:45 Flash talk

The other side of domestication: an arable weed as key model of adaptation

Célia Neto University of Copenhagen
12 12:45-12:50 Flash talk

Domesticated plants show elevated immune receptor gene loss across lineages

Noah Bourne University of Sheffield
13 12:50-13:00 Rest

Rest

15:30-17:30 (UTC+8) | Symposium 9: Origin and evolution of cell types
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 15:30-16:00 Invited talk

Exploring cell type evolution through single-cell transcriptomics

Jordi Solana Garcia Living Systems Institute, Department of Biosciences, University of Exeter
2 16:00-16:15 Selected talk

A novel cell type enabled the transition from egg-laying to livebearing and then to placentation in fishes

Diego Safian Crick Institute
3 16:15-16:30 Selected talk

Visual system cell type differences underlying divergent butterfly mate preference

Wei Lu University of Chicago
4 16:30-16:45 Selected talk

A daphnia single-cell atlas of tissue-specific gene expression: insights into the evolution of cell types in reproductive systems

Yue Hao Translational Genomics Research Institute
5 16:45-17:00 Selected talk

Comparative single-cell transcriptomics reveals variable degrees of cell-type conservation between two distantly related nematodes

Yinan Wang Max Planck Institute for Biology, Tübingen
6 17:00-17:15 Selected talk

Single-cell profiling of the amphioxus digestive tract reveals conservation of chordate endocrine cells

Yichen Dai Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
7 17:15-17:20 Flash talk

Single-cell analysis of the amphioxus hepatic caecum and vertebrate liver reveals genetic mechanisms of vertebrate liver evolution

Baosheng Wu Institute of Zoology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences
8 17:20-17:25 Flash talk

Evolution of novel cell types in the mammalian placenta

Marcin Falis The Francis Crick Institute
9 17:25-17:30 Flash talk

Evolution of lung somatic cells' life beyond orgnismal death - transitioning from multicellular organisms to unicellular entities

Bingjie Chen Guangzhou Medical University

Room 2, Building No. 8 (UTC+8)

11:00-13:00 (UTC+8) | Symposium 4: Gene trees and beyond: genealogical methods and their applications in evolutionary genetics
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 11:00-11:30 Invited talk

TBA

Rasmus Nielsen UC Berkeley
2 11:30-11:45 Selected talk

A pandemic-scale ancestral recombination graph of SARS-CoV-2

Shing Zhan University of Oxford
3 11:45-12:00 Selected talk

CASTER: Direct species tree inference from whole-genome alignments

Chao Zhang University of Copenhagen
4 12:00-12:15 Selected talk

Spatial temporal evolutionary trajectory of solid tumor cells reveals clonal diversity changes during tumor progression and acquired drug resistance

Yue Hao Translational Genomics Research Institute
5 12:15-12:20 Flash talk

Host-genetic interactions with symbionts: A cophylogenetic approach using ancestral recombination graphs

Rowan Hart University of Chicago
6 12:20-12:25 Flash talk

SNP2ARG: Inferring ancestral recombination graphs with deep learning

Marçal Comajoan Cara UC Santa Cruz & Stanford University
7 12:25-12:30 Flash talk

Biological causes and impacts of tree space complexity in phylodynamic inference with measurably evolving populations

Jiansi Gao Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
8 12:30-12:35 Flash talk

Metabolism and membranes across the prokaryote tree

Edmund Moody University of Bristol
9 12:35-12:40 Flash talk

Historical biogeography of potamid crabs in Southern China: a phylogenomic perspective

Zechang Cheng Sun Yat-Sen University
10 12:40-12:45 Flash talk

High density cell lineage trees revealed distinct features of somatic evolution

Jianrong Yang Sun Yat-sen University
11 12:45-12:50 Flash talk

Joint inference of cell lineage trees, genotypes and phylodynamic parameters from single-cell sequencing data.

Yao Xiao The University of Auckland
12 12:50-12:55 Flash talk

Analyse the causality relations among genes that are associated with intellectual disability in primate brains

Jing Qin University of Southern Denmark
15:30-17:30 (UTC+8) | Symposium 2: Evolution and regulation of sex chromosomes and sex determination
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 15:30-16:00 Invited talk

Stepwise recombination suppression on fungal mating-type chromosomes and evolutionary dynamics of degeneration

Tatiana Giraud University of Paris Saclay-CNRS
2 16:00-16:15 Selected talk

Complex evolution of sex chromosome within a haploid-dominant liverwort lineage

Bo Xu Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science
3 16:15-16:30 Selected talk

The peculiar evolution of a novel sex chromosome in an androdioecious species with two mating types

Vincent Castric University of Lille-CNRS
4 16:30-16:45 Selected talk

Characterization of the sex chromosome dosage compensation mechanism in Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes

Agata Kalita Jagiellonian University, Kraków
5 16:45-16:50 Flash talk

Novel expression of Xist in the male white-footed deermouse Peromyscus leucopus

Sha Sun University of California, Irvine
6 16:50-16:55 Flash talk

pSTAT3 activation of Foxl2 initiates the female pathway underlying temperature-dependent sex determination

Pengfei Wu Fudan University
7 16:55-17:00 Flash talk

Whole genome PoolSeq analysis reveals the coexistence and origins of three distinct levels of X-Y chromosome differentiation in the European common frog

Wen-Juan Ma Vrije Universiteit Brussel
8 17:00-17:05 Flash talk

Y chromosome evolution of East Asian populations

Jing Liu Zhejiang University
9 17:05-17:10 Flash talk

Relative rates of evolution on autosomes and sex chromosomes under paternal genome elimination

Thomas Hitchcock Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences – RIKEN
10 17:10-17:25 Selected talk

Unity in sex chromosome evolution hidden by diversity

Deborah Charlesworth Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Edinburgh

Room 3, Building No. 8 (UTC+8)

11:00-13:00 (UTC+8) | Symposium 6: Mutation rate rules: on the origin of germline mutations and their evolutionary fate
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 11:00-11:30 Invited talk

TBA

Kelley Harris University of Washington
2 11:30-11:45 Selected talk

Mutagenic Treatments Create Male-biased Germline Mutations in Mice

Danqi Qin Zhejiang University
3 11:45-12:00 Selected talk

Interactions between sequence context and methylation shape the germline mutation rate of CpG sites in the human genome

Ziyue Gao University of Pennsylvania
4 12:00-12:15 Selected talk

Detection of de novo SNV and microsatellite mutations in primate testis and human sperm samples from HiFi sequencing

Mikkel Heide Schierup Aarhus University
5 12:15-12:30 Selected talk

Rapid and highly variable mutagenesis of complex tandem repeats identified across four generations of a large Utah pedigree

Michael Goldberg University of Utah
6 12:30-12:35 Flash talk

An adaptive deep learning framework for high-resolution prediction of somatic mutations in normal and cancerous tissues

Kun Wu Zhejiang university
7 12:35-12:40 Flash talk

Mutation accumulation lines in mice to study mutational spectra, transcriptional phenotypic variance, and effects on fitness reduction

Diethard Tautz Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Ploen
8 12:40-12:45 Flash talk

Determinants of de novo mutations in extended pedigrees of 43 dog breeds

Shaojie Zhang Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
9 12:50-12:55 Flash talk

Distinct temperature-dependent patterns of molecular rates across vertebrates

Tianlong Cai Westlake Laboratory
10 12:55-13:00 Flash talk

Reduced germline mutation rate in repeatedly evolved inbreeding social spiders

Jilong Ma Aarhus University
15:30-17:30 (UTC+8) | Symposium 10: Pangenome graphs and their applications in biodiversity genomics
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 15:30-16:00 Invited talk

Pangenomes of scrub-jays (Aphelocoma) across a gradient of effective population sizes reveal fitness effects of structural variation

Scott Edwards Harvard University
2 16:00-16:30 Invited talk

Pangenomics for De-Extinction: Towards the Great Passenger Pigeon Comeback

Simona Secomandi The Rockefeller University
3 16:30-16:45 Selected talk

Exploring the impact of structural variation on adaptive evolution in Quercus based on super-pangenome

Ruirui Fu Zhejiang University
4 16:45-17:00 Selected talk

Assembly-based pangenome graphs illuminate the plasticity of mammalian gene repertoires

Landen Gozashti Harvard University
5 17:00-17:15 Selected talk

Complete assemblies and pangenome reference reveal unique features in the complex genomic regions of Tibetan highlanders

Bing Su Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
6 17:15-17:30 Selected talk

Evolution and maintenance of a transpecies color polymorphism

Ming Li University of Konstanz

Room 5, Building No. 8 (UTC+8)

11:00-13:00 (UTC+8) | Symposium 5: Human history and past social organisation in the light of palaeogenomes: new methods, new findings session A
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 11:00-11:30 Invited talk

Ancient pathogens as proxies of human movements and social interactions

María Ávila Arcos National Autonomous University of Mexico
2 11:30-11:45 Selected talk

Ancient DNA reveals genetic barrier despite shared Avar-period culture in Eastern-Central Europe

Ke Wang Fudan University
3 11:45-12:00 Selected talk

Ancient mastics offer new insights into oral microbiome evolution and health

Anna White Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen
4 12:00-12:15 Selected talk

Ancient metagenomics reveal human-microbial interactions over an evolutionary timescale

Yichen Liu IVPP, CAS
5 12:15-12:30 Selected talk

Late Neandertals in focus: a fine-resolution paleogenetic study of Neandertal groups in North-Western Europe

Alba Bossoms Mesa MPI - EVA
6 12:30-12:35 Flash talk

Paternal Genetic Contributions from Millet and Rice Farmers to the Genetic Makeup of Southern Chinese and Southeast Asians

Yunhui Liu Chongqing Medical University
7 12:35-12:40 Flash talk

The dynamic genetic landscape of indigenous South Americans

Marcos Araujo Castro e Silva Universitat Pompeu Fabra
8 12:40-12:45 Flash talk

Ancient genomes reveal complex genetic history of ancient populations in the western Tibetan Plateau

Fan Bai IVPP, CAS
9 12:45-12:50 Flash talk

Improved palaeoproteomic methods allow for identification of a Pleistocene tooth from Khudji, Tajikistan, as a probable Neanderthal

Zandra Fagernäs Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen
10 12:50-12:55 Flash talk

Human adaptation to farming through DNA methylation

Youssef Tawfik Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
15:30-17:30 (UTC+8) | Symposium 7: The Origin, Evolution, and Phenotypic Contributions of New Genes
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 15:30-16:00 Invited talk

Functional innovation through new gene origination is a general evolutionary process

Manyuan Long The University of Chicago
2 16:00-16:15 Selected talk

Evolutionary mechanisms of new gene birth and protein sequence convergence

Xuan Zhuang University of Arkansas
3 16:15-16:30 Selected talk

Template switching in DNA replication generates novel microRNA genes

Ari Löytynoja University of Helsinki
4 16:30-16:45 Selected talk

Solving a genetic paradox: from an essential gene to a killer

Polina Tikanova IMBA, VBC
5 16:45-16:50 Flash talk

Moderate presence and evolutionary causes of paralogous compensation in humans

Jieyu Shen Institute of Zoology, CAS
6 16:50-16:55 Flash talk

Evolution of retrocopies of protein-coding genes in the context of HUSH complex repression.

Izabela Makalowska Adam Mickiewicz University
7 16:55-17:00 Flash talk

Using high-quality gene annotations on complete primate genomes and human pangenomes to study gene evolution

Prajna Hebbar University of California Santa Cruz
8 17:00-17:05 Flash talk

Gene expansion and evolution in detoxification and lignocellulose degradation enzymes in mangrove herbivorous crabs

Kwok Lun Hui CUHK
9 17:05-17:10 Flash talk

The gene regulatory networks and transcription factors controlling the expression of de novo originated genes

Nicolas Svetec Rockefeller University
10 17:10-17:15 Flash talk

Massive introgression and gene duplications drove sexual system transition in an algal genus Vaucheria

Seok-Wan Choi Sungkyunkwan University
11 17:15-17:20 Flash talk

Monkeyflower (Mimulus) uncovers the evolutionary basis of the eukaryote telomere sequence variation

Jae Young Choi University of Kansas
12 17:20-17:25 Flash talk

Using house mouse system to trace the evolutionary fate of newly originated gene copies

Wenyu Zhang Northwestern Polytechnical University

Banquet Hall/Building No. 6 (UTC+8)

13:00-14:00 (UTC+8) | LUNCH

Poster & Exhibition Area, Building No. 8 (UTC+8)

14:00-15:30 (UTC+8) | Poster session 1

2025-07-22 Tuesday

Auditorium, Conference Building (UTC+8)

08:50-09:00 (UTC+8) | Introduction to Day 3
09:00-10:00 (UTC+8) | Keynote 3: Molly Przeworski
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 09:00-10:00 Keynote speech

Why do human germline mutation rates depend on sex and age?

Molly Przeworski Columbia University

Room 1, Building No. 8 (UTC+8)

10:30-12:30 (UTC+8) | Symposium 11: Phylogenomics in the presence of gene flow: opportunities and challenges
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 10:30-11:00 Invited talk

TBA

Anne D. Yoder Duke University
2 11:00-11:15 Selected talk

The power of coalescent methods for inferring recent and ancient gene flow in endangered Bactrian camels

Tianqi Zhu Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science,CAS
3 11:15-11:30 Selected talk

Palaeogenomic study of the extinct Bubalus mephistopheles shed light on the evolutionary history of the Bubalus Genus and domestic water buffaloes

Xueyuan Liang Peking University
4 11:30-11:45 Selected talk

Extensive introgression obscures phylogenetic relationships among major clades of the walnut family (Juglandaceae)

Bowen Zhang Beijing Normal University
5 11:45-12:00 Selected talk

Pervasive incomplete lineage sorting and ancient hybridization during the early divergence of major angiosperm lineages

Bojian Zhong Nanjing Normal University
6 12:00-12:15 Selected talk

Phylogenetic analysis of tetraploid species using polarized genomic sequences in the presence of introgression

Martin Lascoux Uppsala University
7 12:15-12:30 Selected talk

Phylogenomic analyses reveal widespread hybridization events across the Potentilla s.l. genus (Rosaceae)

Tiantian Xue Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
15:30-17:30 (UTC+8) | Symposium 16: Thematic symposium: evo-devo
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 15:30-15:45 Selected talk

How to build a placenta from scratch: novel organ evolution in fish

Sophie Kraunsoe The Francis Crick Institute
2 15:45-16:00 Selected talk

The relationship between molecular evolution and mechanisms underlying unique anatomical development and extreme radiotolerance in tardigrades

Dong Yang National Center for Protein Sciences (Beijing)
3 16:00-16:15 Selected talk

Origin of cell differentiation in animals

Victoria Shabardina Institute of Evolutionary Biology
4 16:15-16:30 Selected talk

Shared and Distinct Molecular Programs in Developing Human and Big Animal Brains

Mingfeng Li Huazhong University of Science and Technology
5 16:30-16:45 Selected talk

Evo-Devo of flowering transition, floral color and symmetry in neotropical orchids

Yesenia Madrigal Bedoya New York University
6 16:45-17:00 Selected talk

Taurine-Driven Chemotaxis and Metamorphosis in Proto-Vertebrate Ascidian

Likun Yang Ocean University of China
7 17:00-17:15 Selected talk

Stepwise Co-option of Gene Regulatory Networks Drives Episodic Radiations in Flies

Yaoming Yang Westlake University
8 17:15-17:30 Selected talk

Less, but More: New Insights from Appendicularians on Gene Loss and Evolutionary Innovations

Gaspar Sanchez Serna Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology OIST

Room 2, Building No. 8 (UTC+8)

10:30-12:30 (UTC+8) | Symposium 14: The roles of hybridization and introgression in evolution
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 10:30-11:00 Invited talk

Hybrid speciation over space and time in the Amazon rainforests

James Mallet Harvard University
2 11:00-11:15 Selected talk

Inferring introgression based on deep learning approach

Yubo Zhang Peking University
3 11:15-11:30 Selected talk

Complex motility adaptation in a Vibrio parahaemolyticus ecospecies driven by introgression

Sarah Svensson Shanghai Institute of Immunity and Infection
4 11:30-11:45 Selected talk

Origin and maintenance of a shared sexual mimicry polymorphism

Tristram Dodge Stanford University
5 11:45-11:50 Flash talk

Evolutionary insights from nine-spined stickleback genomes: demography and admixture

Xueyun Feng University of Helsinki
6 11:50-11:55 Flash talk

A 120-year time-series of genomes reveals the consequences of closed breeding in German Shepherd Dogs

Lachie Scarsbrook University of Oxford
7 11:55-12:00 Flash talk

Evolution of viviparity promotes species divergence:The genetic mechanism in common lizards

Hongxin Xie University of Glasgow
8 12:00-12:05 Flash talk

Subgenome-level phylogeny reveals the reticulate effects of allopolyploidization on angiosperm evolution

Yu Cao Huazhong Agricultural University
9 12:05-12:10 Flash talk

The role of introgression in the sympatric speciation of Quercus acutissima and Q.variabilis

Mingming Zhang Zhejiang University
10 12:10-12:15 Flash talk

Machine learning-based population genetics analyses reveal historical and genomic impacts of introgressed variants on grape breeding

Hua Xiao Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
11 12:15-12:20 Flash talk

Multiple divergent Denisovan ancestries and adaptation of introgressed copy number variants in mainland Southeast Asian populations

Yini Xiao Fudan University
12 12:20-12:25 Flash talk

The role of introgression in driving repeated adaptation between species of section Costatae and Betula platyphylla

Nian Wang Shandong Agricultural University
13 12:25-12:30 Flash talk

The genomic insights of the early stages of sympatric homoploid hybrid speciation in crater lake cichlid fishes

Axel Meyer University of Konstanz
15:30-17:30 (UTC+8) | Symposium 28: Human history and past social organisation in the light of palaeogenomes: new methods, new findings session B
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 15:30-15:45 Selected talk

The horse before and after our shared history

Ludovic ORLANDO CAGT (CNRS, France)
2 15:45-16:00 Selected talk

Ancient genomes from the Imdang-Joyeong burial complex reveal an extensive kinship network in a Three-Kingdoms period society in Korea

Hyoungmin Moon Seoul National University
3 16:00-16:15 Selected talk

Grave matters: Discerning ancient DNA profiles from grave dirt vs. skeletal remains

Gözde Atağ Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
4 16:15-16:30 Selected talk

Ancient genome analysis of human remains in the Kofun period on the Japanese archipelago.

Takashi Gakuhari Kanazawa University
5 16:30-16:45 Selected talk

Ancient DNA analysis unveils the genetic and demographic history of zoroastrians in India

Bhavna Ahlawat IIT Gandhinagar
6 16:45-17:00 Selected talk

Out-of-Anatolia: Genomic and cultural dynamics during the neolithization of Western Eurasia

Dilek Koptekin University of Lausanne
7 17:00-17:15 Selected talk

Inferring castration status and age-at-death from sheepskin parchments

Ciarán O'Connor Trinity College Dublin
8 17:15-17:20 Flash talk

Reconstructing Jomon Kinship through Paleogenomic Analysis

Yoshiki Wakiyama The University of Tokyo
9 17:20-17:25 Flash talk

Tracing Denisovan ancestry in early modern human genomes

Jiaqi Yang Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
10 17:25-17:30 Flash talk

Recent ancestry specific inference of archaic tracts in humans

Vladimir Shchur HSE University

Room 3, Building No. 8 (UTC+8)

10:30-12:30 (UTC+8) | Symposium 13: Synthetic approaches to evolutionary theory: A dialog between the past and the future
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 10:30-10:50 Invited talk

TBA

Joseph Thornton University of Chicago
2 10:50-11:10 Invited talk

Decode and reprogram a plant genome

Junbiao Dai AGIS-CAAS
3 11:10-11:20 Selected talk

Connecting distant proteins with similar structures: a path perspective

Kaiyu Qiu Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen
4 11:20-11:30 Selected talk

The evolutionary potential of bacterial gene regulatory elements: insights from synthetic biology and adaptive landscapes

Cauã Antunes Westmann University of Zürich
5 11:30-11:45 Selected talk

Ancient biases in phenotype production drove the functional evolution of a protein family

Jaeda Patton University of Chicago
6 11:45-12:00 Selected talk

Functional optimization in distinct tissues constrains the rate of protein evolution

Dinara Usmanova Columbia University
7 12:00-12:15 Selected talk

Temperature dependence of protein fitness landscape topography

Shizhe Tang Westlake University
8 12:15-12:30 Selected talk

Can a nonadaptive genetic system become indispensable?

Yun-Ju Lee University of Michigan
15:30-17:30 (UTC+8) | Symposium 18: Thematic symposium: frontiers in single-cell level analysis
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 15:30-15:45 Selected talk

Advanced bioinformatics tools for single-cell somatic mosaicism analysis and visualization

Yanmei Dou Westlake University
2 15:45-16:00 Selected talk

A lineage-informed deep neural network for cellular dynamics inference using single-cell transcritpome and lineage tracing data

Yuhong Wen University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
3 16:00-16:15 Selected talk

Coevolution of transcriptional rate parameters across vertebrates

Catherine Felce California Institute of Technology
4 16:15-16:30 Selected talk

SciPhy: A Bayesian phylogenetic framework using sequential genetic lineage tracing data

Sophie Seidel University of Washington
5 16:30-16:45 Selected talk

Seasonal Profile and Microevolution in Freshwater Bacterioplankton: Insights from Single-Cell Genomics

Quanguo Zhang Beijing Normal University
6 16:45-17:00 Selected talk

LatinCells: A human cell map of Latin American diversity

Jose Antonio Corona Gomez Unidad de Genómica Avanzada, Langebio, Cinvestav
7 17:00-17:15 Selected talk

Cell-type specific evolution of the Drosophila germline transcriptome

Imtiyaz Enayatali Hariyani University of California Irvine
8 17:15-17:30 Selected talk

Single-Cell Resolution of Rare Adaptive Mutations from Evolving Populations of Microbes

Parker Crossland Arizona State University

Room 4, Building No. 8 (UTC+8)

10:30-12:30 (UTC+8) | Symposium 3: Experimental evolution: studying evolution in action
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 10:30-11:00 Invited talk

TBA

Dmitri Petrov Stanford University
2 11:00-11:15 Selected talk

Terrestrial herbivory drives real-time evolution in an aquatic community via indirect effects

Shuqing Xu University of Mainz
3 11:15-11:30 Selected talk

Resolving the Aneuploidy Paradox by Experimental Evolution

Jing Li Sun Yat-sen University
4 11:30-11:45 Selected talk

The question of epimutation: How does epigenetic information become heritable?

Maximilian Fitz-James University of Oxford
5 11:45-12:00 Selected talk

Experimental evolution of evolvability

Michael Barnett Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology
6 12:00-12:05 Flash talk

Dissect cancer genome evolution during transient and stable drug resistance

Liye Zhang ShanghaiTech University
7 12:05-12:10 Flash talk

Evolutionary fate of gene duplicates in different environmental contexts.

Anjali Mahilkar University of Michigan
8 12:10-12:15 Flash talk

Rapid adaptation in globally distributed evolution experiment in Arabidopsis thaliana

Tatiana Bellagio Stanford University
9 12:15-12:20 Flash talk

Experimentally evolving cellular miniaturization in S. cerevisiae

Marco Fumasoni Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine (GIMM)
10 12:20-12:25 Flash talk

Gene expression plasticity promotes cell state transition and cancer cell adaptation under nutrient deprivation

Can Liu Kunming Institute of Zoology
11 12:25-12:30 Flash talk

Uncovering the correlations between cell size and growth phenotypes

Alexander Sastokas Arizona State University Geiler-Samerotte Lab
15:30-17:30 (UTC+8) | Symposium 8: Novel insights on genome architecture evolution
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 15:30-16:00 Invited talk

Adaptive structural variation in insect genomes

Chris Jiggins University of Cambridge
2 16:00-16:15 Selected talk

Genome scrambling in the Tree of Life

Charles Plessy OIST
3 16:15-16:30 Selected talk

Chromosomal fusions linked to adaptive evolution in an invasive copepod species complex

Zhenyong Du University of Wisconsin–Madison
4 16:30-16:45 Selected talk

Extensive genome evolution distinguishes maize within a stable tribe of grasses

Michelle Stitzer Cornell University
5 16:45-17:00 Selected talk

An episodic burst of massive genomic rearrangements and the origin of non-marine annelids

Carlos Vargas-Chavez Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC - UPF)
6 17:00-17:15 Selected talk

Horizontal transmission of functionally diverse transposons is a major source of new introns

Russ Corbett-Detig UC Santa Cruz
7 17:15-17:20 Flash talk

Genomic evidence for rediploidization and adaptive evolution following the whole-genome triplication

Xiao Feng Sun Yat-sen University
8 17:20-17:25 Flash talk

Chromosomal Chaos: Exploring a Dramatic Shift in the Evolution of Genome Organization in Mucoromycota

Helle Baalsrud The Norwegian University of Life Sciences
9 17:25-17:30 Flash talk

Genetic diversity and evolution of rice centromeres

Dongya Wu Zhejiang University

Room 5, Building No. 8 (UTC+8)

10:30-12:30 (UTC+8) | Symposium 15: Transposable elements in genome evolution and biotechnology development
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 10:30-11:00 Invited talk

TBA

Josefa Gonzalez Institut Botànic de Barcelona, CSIC
2 11:00-11:15 Selected talk

Adaptive transposable elements leads to phenotypic variation via introducing cis-elements in Arabidopsis

Yalong Guo Institute of Botany, CAS
3 11:15-11:30 Selected talk

Giant genomes of lungfishes grew by massiv TE expansion

Axel Meyer University of Konstanz
4 11:30-11:35 Flash talk

Exploring endogenous retroviruses in ruminant genomes: They might not be all dead after all

Emmanuelle Lerat Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1
5 11:35-11:40 Flash talk

The horizontal escape of a human retrotransposon into one contagious virus genome reveals the schizophrenic life of BC200

Cheng Sun Capital Normal University
6 11:40-11:45 Flash talk

Transcriptional and translational signatures of ovarian aging in Drosophila melanogaster based on transposable elements

Qiheng Xu Peking University
7 11:45-11:50 Flash talk

Activation and evolution of endogenous retroviruses in gall bladder

Jie Cui Fudan University
8 11:50-11:55 Flash talk

Detection of plant LTR tetrotransposons through extrachromosomal circular DNA sequencing: Insights into transposition and novel non-canonical proteins

ILIA KIROV All-Russia Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology
9 11:55-12:00 Flash talk

DNA transposons mining and engineering for efficient CAR-T modification

Chengyi Song Yangzhou University
10 12:00-12:05 Flash talk

Roles of TEs in modulating secondary metabolite biosynthesis in plants

Li Wang Chinese Academy of Agricultural sciences
11 12:05-12:10 Flash talk

Transposable elements as drivers of genome evolution and functional divergence following whole-genome duplication in orychophragmus

Jing Wang Sichuan University
12 12:10-12:15 Flash talk

History of transposable element invasions in drosophila melanogaster

Robert Kofler VetMedUni
13 12:15-12:20 Flash talk

Transposable elements reconcile micro and macroevolution for adaptive genome changes

Ying Liu Hebei university
14 12:20-12:25 Flash talk

Variation in human LINE-1 retrotransposons encodes resistance to host restriction factors

Rick McLaughlin Pacific Northwest Research Institute / UW
15 12:25-12:30 Flash talk

Heterologous survey of DNA transposons in human cells highlights their functional divergence and expands the genome engineering toolbox

Shengjun Tan Institute of Zoology, CAS
15:30-17:30 (UTC+8) | Symposium 20: Thematic symposium: evolution of immunity
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 15:30-15:45 Selected talk

Where is the innate immune system of fungi? Molecular evolution of a fungal receptor gene family

S. Lorena Ament-Velásquez Stockholm University, Sweden / PHIM, France
2 15:45-16:00 Selected talk

Evolution of Erm-associated Antibiotic Resistance

Yongjun Tan Saint Louis University
3 16:00-16:15 Selected talk

The prokaryotic roots of eukaryotic immune systems

Max Burroughs National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health
4 16:15-16:30 Selected talk

Reference-quality bat genomes illuminate clade-specific immunity to viruses

Aaron Irving Zhejiang University - University of Edinburgh Institute
5 16:30-16:45 Selected talk

Experimental horizontal transfer of phage-derived genes to Drosophila confers innate immunity to parasitoids

Rebecca Tarnopol UC Berkeley
6 16:45-17:00 Selected talk

Evolutionary repurposing of TLR21 as a broad-spectrum recogniser of CpG-DNA

Steven Fiddaman The Pirbright Institute / University of Oxford
7 17:00-17:15 Selected talk

The evolution of Drosophila's innate immune responses to bacteria

Cong Li The Rockefeller University
8 17:15-17:30 Selected talk

A genomic deep dive into the evolution of structural and genetic diversity of Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) regions of African, Asian, and South American primates

Joanna Malukiewicz University of Hamburg

Banquet Hall/Building No. 6 (UTC+8)

12:30-14:00 (UTC+8) | LUNCH

Poster & Exhibition Area, Building No. 8 (UTC+8)

14:00-15:30 (UTC+8) | Poster session 2

2025-07-23 Wednesday

Auditorium, Conference Building (UTC+8)

08:50-09:00 (UTC+8) | Introduction to Day 4
09:00-10:00 (UTC+8) | Keynote 4: Eugene Koonin

Room 1, Building No. 8 (UTC+8)

10:30-12:30 (UTC+8) | Symposium 25: Advancing Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility in Molecular Biology and Evolution
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 10:30-10:45 Selected talk

IDEA Taskforce Presentation

Ravinder Kanda Oxford Brookes University
2 10:45-11:15 Invited talk

Skeletons in the closet: ethics, law, and politics in palaeontology

Nussaïbah B. Raja Nussaïbah B.
3 11:15-11:30 Selected talk

Diversifying the curriculum in a research-intensive university with staff/student co-creation

Matteo Fumagalli Queen Mary University of London
4 11:30-11:45 Selected talk

HAAM Community: Fostering collaboration, inclusivity, and sustainable research in Human Ancient DNA, Ancestry, and Mobility

Miren Iraeta-Orbegozo University of Lausanne, University of Copenhagen
5 11:45-12:00 Selected talk

Brain drain: recognising the elephant in the room

Mehmet Somel Middle East Technical University
6 12:00-12:30 Open Discussion

Open Discussion

Carlos Eduardo G. Amorim Cal State Northridge / Epifanía Arango Isaza University of Wisconsin
15:30-17:30 (UTC+8) | Symposium 23: Thematic symposium: Symbiosis
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 15:30-15:45 Selected talk

Spatial transcriptomics and comparative genomics reveal key evolutionary innovations in a symbiotic bioluminescent Flashlight fish

Chang Liu Sun Yat-sen University
2 15:45-16:00 Selected talk

Microbiome responses to climate-induced stressors and implications for host and ecosystem health

Jingdi Li University of British Columbia
3 16:00-16:15 Selected talk

Interactions between the honeybee immune system and gut bacteria

Shiqi Luo China Agricultural University
4 16:15-16:30 Selected talk

Taxonomically different symbiotic communities of sympatric Arctic sponge species show functional similarity with specialization at species level

Anastasiia Rusanova Koltzov Institute od Developmental Biology
5 16:30-16:45 Selected talk

Relaxed selection on Blattabacterium genes led to convergent gene losses

Zhuli Cheng Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
6 16:45-17:00 Selected talk

Molecular adaptation of two hot-vent chemosymbiotic Alviniconcha snails revealed by multiple-omics analyses

Hui Wang Ocean University of China
7 17:00-17:15 Selected talk

Coevolution of host and gut bacteria via metabolism synergy during honeybee acclimation

Min Tang Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
8 17:15-17:30 Selected talk

Genomic Underpinnings of Cytoplasmic Incompatibility

Yongjun Tan Saint Louis University

Room 2, Building No. 8 (UTC+8)

10:30-12:30 (UTC+8) | Symposium 21: Thematic symposium: virus evolution and pathogen evolution
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 10:30-10:45 Selected talk

Tracking and quantifying reassortment divergence of panzootic H5Nx highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses and the key drivers of its spatial heterogeneity

Lu Lu University of Edinburgh
2 10:45-10:50 Flash talk

An expanding universe of mutational signatures and its rapid evolution in single-stranded RNA viruses

Yue Yang Institute of Zoology,Chinese Academy of Sciences
3 10:50-10:55 Flash talk

Unraveling epistatic interactions between sites under drug-dependent selection in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis genome

Anfisa Popova HSE University
4 10:55-11:10 Selected talk

Genetically distinct within-host subpopulations of hepatitis C virus persist after Direct-Acting Antiviral treatment failure

Lele Zhao University of Oxford
5 11:10-11:15 Flash talk

Intrahost dynamics, together with genetic and phenotypic effects predict the success of viral mutations

Cedric Tan University College London
6 11:15-11:20 Flash talk

Antagonistic selection drives SARS-CoV-2 evolution within and between host

Mei Hou Sun Yat-sen University
7 11:20-11:35 Selected talk

A tale of two cancer-associated viruses

Huihui Li SYSUCC
8 11:35-11:40 Flash talk

The origin and the evolution of plasmodium falciparum

Martha Kivecu The University of Edinburgh
9 11:40-11:45 Flash talk

Discovery of sickle haemoglobin-associated mutations in the Plasmodium falciparum genome using 6,000 infections from three populations

Annie Forster University of Oxford
10 11:45-11:50 Flash talk

Malaria parasite genotype dictates asymptomatic infection in sickle cell carriers

Helena Hopson University of Utah
11 11:50-12:05 Selected talk

Exploring Pathogen diversity in Patagonian Hunter-Gathers in a 6000-100-year time transect through Paleogenomics

Florencia Alvarez Gallego Universidad Autónoma de México-UNAM
12 12:05-12:10 Flash talk

Ancient DNA reveals 4000 years of Sheeppox virus evolution through Eurasia.

Louis L’Hôte University College Dublin
13 12:10-12:15 Flash talk

Tracing the evolutionary history of Epstein-Barr Virus using modern and ancient genomes

Yuejiao Huang University of Copenhagen
14 12:15-12:30 Selected talk

Tracing the evolution of Marek's disease virus virulence using ancient and historical collections

Martin Tesicky LMU Munich, Germany
15:30-17:30 (UTC+8) | Symposium 19: Thematic symposium: conservation genomics
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 15:30-15:45 Selected talk

Population genomic landscapes and insights for conservation of the critically endangered island-endemic Chinese pangolin in Taiwan

Jingyang Hu Yunnan University
2 15:45-16:00 Selected talk

Genetic rescue in Florida panthers maintained local diversity and provided temporary fitness benefits

Diana Aguilar Gomez UCLA
3 16:00-16:15 Selected talk

Inbreeding load in a small and managed population: two decades of Hihi / Stitchbird (Notiomystis cincta) genomics

Hui Zhen Tan University of Auckland
4 16:15-16:30 Selected talk

Impacts of habitat fragmentation and human-mediated translocations in Wallacea, a global biodiversity hotspot

Rosie Drinkwater Ludwig-Maximillians Universität
5 16:30-16:45 Selected talk

1000 arctic genomes for diversity, adaptations and longevity: Polar Bear, Muksun, Beluga Whale, Bowhead Whale and others

Dmitry Pustoshilov Biotech Campus LLC, Moscow, Russia
6 16:45-16:50 Flash talk

Comparative genomics supports ecologically induced selection as a putative driver of banded penguin diversification

Fabiola León Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, IM BASE
7 16:50-16:55 Flash talk

Convergent evolutionary deadend and breakdown of hard chorion in egg-guarding fish reproductive strategies

Tatsuki Nagasawa Institute of Science Tokyo
8 16:55-17:00 Flash talk

Integrating genomic tools to safeguard siamese crocodile genetic purity

Thitipong Panthum Kasetsart University
9 17:00-17:05 Flash talk

Conservation genomics of an important mountain ungulate, Capra sibirica

Shamshidin Abduriyim Shihezi University
10 17:05-17:10 Flash talk

Genetic diversity loss in the Anthropocene will continue long after habitat destruction ends

Kristy Mualim Stanford University
11 17:10-17:15 Flash talk

Molecular adaptation and conservation genomics in carnivorous bats

Huabin Zhao Wuhan University
12 17:15-17:20 Flash talk

Population genomics studies of critically endangered hawksbill turtles in Southeast Asia

Regine Tiong Nanyang Technological University
13 17:20-17:25 Flash talk

Museomics and indigenous knowledge confirm existence of the marozi - spotted lions in East Africa

Xiaodong Liu University of Copenhagen
14 17:25-17:30 Flash talk

Remnant island populations of Australian mammals purge genetic load

Emily Roycroft Monash University

Room 3, Building No. 8 (UTC+8)

10:30-12:30 (UTC+8) | Symposium 24: Thematic symposium: colonizing new environments and invasiveness
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 10:30-10:45 Selected talk

Impacts of genome architecture on rapid parallel adaptation during habitat invasions

Carol Eunmi Lee University of Wisconsin-Madison
2 10:45-11:00 Selected talk

Evolution of Darwin's Finches in the Galápagos Islands: Genomics perspectives on adaptation, speciation, and biological invasion.

Sangeet Lamichhaney Kent State University
3 11:00-11:15 Selected talk

From sub-Saharan Africa to China: evolutionary history and adaption of Drosophila melanogaster revealed by population genomics

Chenlu Liu Peking University
4 11:15-11:30 Selected talk

Cooperation shapes bacterial niche breadth evolution and patterns of diversification

Chunhui Hao East China Normal University
5 11:30-11:45 Selected talk

Nutritional Adaptation of Drosophila suzukii Larvae

Yan Hou Westlake Laboratory
6 11:45-12:00 Selected talk

Segregating structural variants indicate range expansions in an invasive ambrosia beetle species complex

Thomas Schmidt University of Melbourne
7 12:00-12:15 Selected talk

Molecular mechanisms underlying genetic adaptation of Atlantic herring to the brackish Baltic Sea

Fahime Mohamadnejad Sangdehi Uppsala University
8 12:15-12:30 Selected talk

Pathways of introduction and expansion dynamics of invasive alien species in an island ecosystem

Jorge Gutierrez Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
15:30-17:30 (UTC+8) | Symposium 26: Associate editor's symposium
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 15:30-15:45 Selected talk

Mobility in East and West Eurasia through the Holocene: a comparison of temporal dynamics through paleogenomics

Mehmet Somel Middle East Technical University
2 15:45-16:00 Selected talk

Ancient human extinction risk: Implications from high-precision computation and fossil evidence

Haipeng Li Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, CAS
3 16:00-16:15 Selected talk

Out-of-Africa migration and clonal expansion of a recombinant Epstein-Barr virus drives frequent nasopharyngeal carcinoma in southern China

Weiwei Zhai Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
4 16:15-16:30 Selected talk

Gene tinkering and acid-resistance in Helicobacter pylori

Xuhua Xia University of Ottawa
5 16:30-16:45 Selected talk

Modulation of translation accuracy leads to phage resistance

Laasya Samhita Ashoka University
6 16:45-17:00 Selected talk

Virus-Host Coexistence in Phytoplankton Through the Genomic Lens.

Gwenael Piganeau CNRS - Oceanological Observatory of Banyuls sur mer
7 17:00-17:15 Selected talk

Mechanisms driving adaptive evolution in the cross-kingdom fungal pathogen Fusarium oxysporum

Li-Jun Ma University of Massachusetts Amherst
8 17:15-17:30 Selected talk

Implications of Sex-Specific Genomic Differentiation in the Great Tit (Parus major) Species Complex

Toni Gossmann TU Dortmund University

Room 4, Building No. 8 (UTC+8)

10:30-12:30 (UTC+8) | Symposium 12: Population genetics through time session A
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 10:30-11:00 Invited talk

TBA

Ali Akbari Harvard University
2 11:00-11:15 Selected talk

Parallel adaptation in two sibling Drosophila species across global environments

Weixuan Li Peking University
3 11:15-11:30 Selected talk

A generalized structured coalescent for purifying selection without recombination

Stefan Strütt University of Bern, Switzerland
4 11:30-11:45 Selected talk

Genetic signature reveals the impact of colonial history on Mtb evolution in Taiwan

Ruo-ya Bai National Tsing Hua University
5 11:45-12:00 Selected talk

Ancient Crow DNA Reveals Phenotypic Genes Underpinning a Stable Hybrid Zone

Chyi Yin Gwee LMU Munich
6 12:00-12:05 Flash talk

3,023 human genomes from mainland Southeast Asia disclose hidden genetic diversity and signatures of natural selection

Yaoxi He Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
7 12:05-12:10 Flash talk

Population structure, dynamics, and evolution of vibrio parahaemolyticus

Jiancheng Wang Shanghai Institute of Immunity and Infection, Chinese Academy of Science
8 12:10-12:15 Flash talk

Somatic evolution and clonal competition in ageing human haematopoiesis

Nathaniel Mon Pere Queen Mary University
9 12:15-12:20 Flash talk

Preliminary evidence for natural selection in time-series data from Central and East Asia over the past 10,000 years

Alison Barton Harvard University
10 12:20-12:25 Flash talk

Fine-scale genetic structure and recent demographic history in the Ryukyu Archipelago

Masatoshi Matsunami University of the Ryukyus
11 12:25-12:30 Flash talk

The genetic origins and impacts of historical Papuan migrations into Wallacea

Gludhug Purnomo The University of Adelaide
15:30-17:30 (UTC+8) | Symposium 22: Thematic symposium: evolution theory and recent methodological advances
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 15:30-15:45 Selected talk

The Generalized Haldane (GH) model tracking population size changes and resolving paradoxes of genetic drift

Yongsen Ruan Sun Yat-sen University
2 15:45-16:00 Selected talk

On the probability of reaching high peaks in fitness landscapes by adaptive walks

Yang Li University of Michigan
3 16:00-16:15 Selected talk

 Fluctuating selection among individuals (FSI): a new theory of molecular evolution

Xun Gu Lowa State University
4 16:15-16:30 Selected talk

A narrow range of transcript-error rates across the Tree of Life

Weiyi Li Stanford University
5 16:30-16:35 Flash talk

Emergence of oscillatory balanced polymorphism in age-structured populations

Yuseob Kim Ewha Womans University
6 16:35-16:40 Flash talk

Assessing phylogenetic posteriors for single-cell DNA sequencing tumour data: A simulation study of variant calling parameters

Eva Li University of Auckland
7 16:40-16:45 Flash talk

The impact of non-neutral synonymous mutations when inferring selection on non-synonymous mutations

Aina Martinez i Zurita UCLA
8 16:45-16:50 Flash talk

From evolutionary theory to future scenarios: A predictive model of rapid plant adaptation

Xing Wu University of California, Berkeley
9 16:50-16:55 Flash talk

Deep learning: Balancing, linkage and effects of selection (DEEPBLUES)

Carolin Kosiol University of St Andrews
10 16:55-17:00 Flash talk

Distinguishing false positives from real gene-by-gene interactions between nearby variants

Anastasia Ignatieva University of Oxford
11 17:00-17:05 Flash talk

PLVFormer: A transformer-based tree rearrangement for phylogenetic tree search

Trong Nhan Ly Australian National University
12 17:05-17:10 Flash talk

A comprehensive representation of selection at loci with multiple alleles that allows complex forms of genotypic fitness

Nikolas Vellnow TU Dortmund University
13 17:10-17:15 Flash talk

PhyloVAE: Unsupervised learning of phylogenetic trees via variational autoencoders

Tianyu Xie Peking University
14 17:15-17:20 Flash talk

Evolutionary dynamics of polygenic adaptation under diverse ecological scenarios

Yuna Zhang University of Cologne
15 17:20-17:25 Flash talk

Towards an integrated functional theory of protein molecular evolution

Dennis Vitkup Columbia University

Room 5, Building No. 8 (UTC+8)

10:30-12:30 (UTC+8) | Symposium 17: Thematic symposium: regulatory genomics and non-coding elements
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 10:30-10:45 Selected talk

Mistranslation reduces error load in evolving proteins through negative epistasis with mistranscription

Jianrong Yang Sun Yat-sen University
2 10:45-11:00 Selected talk

Decoding the evolutionary origins of open chromatin using deep learning in Drosophila

Li Zhao The Rockefeller University
3 11:00-11:15 Selected talk

Accelerated evolution in the human lineage shaped regulatory networks controlling the expression of key neurodevelopmental genes

Lucia Franchini INGEBI-CONICET
4 11:15-11:30 Selected talk

Macroevolutionary divergence of gene expression driven by selection on protein abundance

Matt Pennell Cornell
5 11:30-11:35 Flash talk

Epigenomic responses to long-term snowpack decline in a hibernating marmot

Stavi Tennenbaum Princeton University
6 11:35-11:40 Flash talk

Thermal acclimation and parental effects: The role of microRNAs in a coral reef fish

Lucrezia Celeste Bonzi The University of Hong Kong
7 11:40-11:45 Flash talk

Vitellogenin receptor mediates heat adaptability of oocyte development in mud crabs and zebrafish

Muhua Wang Sun Yat-sen University
8 11:45-11:50 Flash talk

Multiple exaptation of unrelated mobile elements shaped a hypothalamic-specific superenhancer essential for the control of food intake and body weight in the lineage leading to mammals

Marcelo Rubinstein INGEBI-CONICET
9 11:50-11:55 Flash talk

Canalization and de-canalization in organisms -when the transcriptome is constantly but weakly perturbed

Guangan Lu Sun Yat-sen University
10 11:55-12:00 Flash talk

Pervasive latent selection in the human noncoding genome

Swetha Ramesh UCLA
11 12:00-12:05 Flash talk

Quantifying and characterizing the rate and strength of adaptation in human genomic regulatory sequences in response to viruses

Addison Lander University of Arizona
12 12:05-12:10 Flash talk

The error hypothesis of RNA variations: evidence and applications

Chuan Xu Shanghai Jiao Tong University
13 12:10-12:15 Flash talk

The landscape of fitness effects of putatively functional noncoding mutations in humans

Chenlu Di University of California, Los Angeles
14 12:15-12:20 Flash talk

Massively parallel characterization of common and rare SNP pairs on gene regulation

Rita Kreevan University of Tartu
15 12:20-12:25 Flash talk

Uncovering the gene regulatory changes that shaped recent human evolution

Ryder Easterlin UC San Francisco
15:30-17:30 (UTC+8) | Symposium 30: Open symposium session B
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 15:30-15:45 Selected talk

Genetic and epigenetic insights into mandibular tori in a medieval mongolian population

Odongoo Ravdandorj Kanazawa University
2 15:45-16:00 Selected talk

Native American druggable genome diversity and its impact on drug response in the Brazilian population.

Lucas De Sena Universidade de São Paulo
3 16:00-16:15 Selected talk

Species complexes of malaria mosquitoes in North America

Yuttapong Thawornwattana University College London
4 16:15-16:30 Selected talk

Joint inference of continental and archaic ancestry: A deep learning approach

Jazeps Medina Tretmanis Brown University
5 16:30-16:45 Selected talk

Constitutively active GCGR: A key factor for birds in maintaining high blood glucose and lean body weight

Cheng Deng West China Hospital, Sichuan University
6 16:45-16:50 Flash talk

Prior probability of clade splits under serial-sampled coalescent

Zijing Yang University of Auckland
7 16:50-16:55 Flash talk

A hotspot-aware map of structural variation in 252 haplotype-resolved assemblies

Ziyi Yang Fudan University
8 16:55-17:00 Flash talk

The genetic toolkit mediating metabolic division of labour across ant social networks

Yuqi Wang University of Cambridge
9 17:00-17:05 Flash talk

Predominant subfunctionalization of ohnologs in teleost and salmonid genomes following whole genome duplication

Yuanshuo Li Trinity College Dublin
10 17:05-17:10 Flash talk

GP4PG: A metaheuristic approach to demographic modelling in population genetics

Jose Miguel Serradell Noguera IBE-UPF-CSIC
11 17:10-17:15 Flash talk

Phylogenomic insights into trait evolution and biogeography in the liverwort family Lepidoziaceae

Antonio Rayos University of Sydney
12 17:15-17:20 Flash talk

Coral Venom in the Era of Climate Change

Claire Ittleson University of Bristol
13 17:20-17:25 Flash talk

Coupling of habitat-preference barriers leads to reproductive isolation in sympatric speciation

Karyn How Evolution Research Inc.
14 17:25-17:30 Flash talk

Genomic evolution of ocular horn polymorphism in desert vipers

Theo Busschau New York University Abu Dhabi

Banquet Hall/Building No. 6 (UTC+8)

12:30-14:00 (UTC+8) | LUNCH
18:00-21:00 (UTC+8) | GALA DINNER (Banquet Hall)

Poster & Exhibition Area, Building No. 8 (UTC+8)

14:00-15:30 (UTC+8) | Poster session 3

2025-07-24 Thursday

Auditorium, Conference Building (UTC+8)

11:30-12:30 (UTC+8) | Keynote 5: Qiaomei Fu
12:30-14:30 (UTC+8) | Awards & Closing ceremony

Room 1, Building No. 8 (UTC+8)

09:00-11:00 (UTC+8) | Symposium 31: Open symposium session C
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 09:00-09:15 Selected talk

Genetic architecture of pheromone variation and prezygotic isolation in two parasitoid wasp species

Weizhao Sun Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity, Muenster University
2 09:15-09:30 Selected talk

Closing the 'Jurassic Gap': Integrated analysis of fossil occurrences and molecular divergence time estimation infers a latest Jurassic origin of flowering plants

Ruolin Wu University of Bristol
3 09:30-09:45 Selected talk

Bloodhound: A deep learning approach to bacterial taxonomic classification

Wytamma Wirth The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection And Immunity
4 09:45-10:00 Selected talk

TOGA2 improves speed and accuracy of comparative gene annotation

Yury Malovichko Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum
5 10:00-10:05 Flash talk

The role of gene family size in cancer resistance among wild mammals

Louise Maille LIENSs
6 10:05-10:10 Flash talk

A large set of nuclear genes brings gastrotrichs into the phylogenomic era

Oscar Wallnoefer University of Bologna
7 10:10-10:15 Flash talk

Exploring migration patterns and metastatic evolution in colorectal cancer: A dense sampling strategy

Qihang Chen Guangzhou Medical University
8 10:15-10:20 Flash talk

The tempo of molecular and morphological evolution across the Tree of Life

Estefany Karen López Estrada Instituto de Biología, UNAM
9 10:20-10:25 Flash talk

Comparative analysis of the distribution of fitness effects of nonsynonymous mutations across diverse plant species

Tanya Pelayo California State University, Northridge
10 10:25-10:30 Flash talk

DNA methylation reshapes cis- and trans-regulatory landscapes during natural hybridization: A case study of F1 hybrid walnut

Weihao Wang Beijing Normal University
11 10:30-10:35 Flash talk

Ancient proteins preserve genetic sequence data >20 million years old, and offer robust, but limited, phylogenetic information

Ryan Sinclair Paterson University of Copenhagen
12 10:35-10:40 Flash talk

Symphony of conflict and cooperation as revealed by dynamic evolution of gene expression in sexual reproduction

Aimei Dai Sun Yat-sen University
13 10:40-10:45 Flash talk

Reference-quality genomes reveal the family-level phylogeny of bats

Yan Liang Wellcome Sanger Institute
14 10:45-10:50 Flash talk

Neutral processes shape the genetic diversity of a marine microbial community

Julio Cesar Ignacio Espinoza Keck Graduate Institute
15 10:50-10:55 Flash talk

Functional olfactory polymorphisms in bark beetles

Jibin Johny Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

Room 2, Building No. 8 (UTC+8)

09:00-11:00 (UTC+8) | Symposium 34: Open symposium session D
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 09:00-09:15 Selected talk

On the role of neutral diversity in interpreting Fst and LD

Marcy Uyenoyama Duke University
2 09:15-09:30 Selected talk

Lessons from ancient dog (kurī) palaeofaeces about the settlement of Aotearoa New Zealand

Meriam van Os University of Otago
3 09:30-09:45 Selected talk

Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference of Protein Structure Evolution Using Angular Diffusion Model

Clementine Yan The University of Auckland
4 09:45-10:00 Selected talk

Drivers of avian genomic change revealed by evolutionary rate decomposition

Simon Ho University of Sydney
5 10:00-10:05 Flash talk

Adaptive coupling of chromosomal inversions with multi-locus ecological and mating-bias genotypes facilitates sympatric speciation

David Hernandez Evolution Research Inc
6 10:05-10:10 Flash talk

STICI: Split-Transformer with integrated convolutions for genotype imputation

Xinghua Shi Temple University
7 10:10-10:15 Flash talk

Fitness Costs and Trade-offs of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Spatially Complex Environments

Emma Helman McGill University
8 10:15-10:20 Flash talk

Repeatable phenotypic but not genetic response to selection on body size of the black soldier fly

Wenjun Zhou University of Cambridge
9 10:20-10:25 Flash talk

Determinants of de novo mutation rates

Chaowei Charlene Zhang the University of Hong Kong
10 10:25-10:30 Flash talk

Large-scale chromosome rearrangements reshape genome architecture and lead to high karyotype diversity in ants

Janina Rinke University of Münster
11 10:30-10:35 Flash talk

Horizontal gene transfer and predation facilitate kin-selected social digestion in the nematode Pristionchus pacificus

Ziduan Han Northwest A&F University
12 10:35-10:40 Flash talk

Balancing, Linkage and Effects of Selection: a Deep Learning Approach

Carolin Kosiol University of st Andrews
13 10:40-10:45 Flash talk

Exact path-integral representation of the Wright-Fisher model with mutation and selection

David Waxman Fudan University
14 10:45-10:50 Flash talk

Harnessing AI for the problem of multiple sequence alignment

Tal Pupko Tel-Aviv University
15 10:50-10:55 Flash talk

Genotyping Short Tandem Repeats Across Copy Number Alterations, Aneuploidies, and Polyploid Organisms

Maria Anisimova Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW)

Room 3, Building No. 8 (UTC+8)

09:00-11:00 (UTC+8) | Symposium 29: Open symposium session A
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 09:00-09:15 Selected talk

Leaf Masquerade Mimicry in Oakleaf Butterflies

Wei Zhang Peking University
2 09:15-09:30 Selected talk

High-quality vertebrate reference genomes for a new era in biology

Giulio Formenti The Rockefeller University
3 09:30-09:45 Selected talk

Adaptive stop codon recoding outside of viruses boosts energy production in horses

Gianni Castiglione Vanderbilt University
4 09:45-10:00 Selected talk

Extrachromosomal DNA driven oncogene spatial heterogeneity and evolution in glioblastoma

Magnus Haughey Barts Cancer Institute
5 10:00-10:15 Selected talk

Escalation of genome defense capacity enables control of expanding meiotic drivers

Peiwei Chen Cornell University
6 10:15-10:30 Selected talk

Extensive structural variation and longevity-associated adaptations in nearctic Myotis bats

Juan Vazquez University of California, Berkeley
7 10:30-10:45 Selected talk

Net bootstrap support: Revising Felsenstein’s bootstrap support for Phylogenomics

Sudhir Kumar Temple University
8 10:45-10:50 Flash talk

Denisovan ancestry sheds new light on modern human dispersals into Asia

Stéphane Peyrégne Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
9 10:50-10:55 Flash talk

Pathogen Evolution and Social Dynamics in Colonial Mexico through Paleogenomics

Laura Carrillo-Olivas National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
10 10:55-11:00 Flash talk

Pan-Evo: The evolution of information and biology's part in this

William (Bill) Sherwin EERC, BEES, UNSW-Sydney

Room 4, Building No. 8 (UTC+8)

09:00-11:00 (UTC+8) | Symposium 27: Population genetics through time session B
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 09:00-09:30 Invited talk

Utilizing Identity-by-Descent segments in time-transect ancient DNA data

Harald Ringbauer MPI EVA Leipzig
2 09:30-09:45 Selected talk

GhostBuster: A method for uncovering ancient hidden admixture events in genealogies

Hrushikesh Loya University of Oxford
3 09:45-10:00 Selected talk

ARGMix: Inferring ancient local ancestry with transformers in ancestral recombination graphs

Cole Shanks University of California Santa Cruz
4 10:00-10:15 Selected talk

Joint parametric inference of complex demographic history using composite likelihood based on whole-genome genealogy

Xinzhu "April" Wei Cornell University
5 10:15-10:30 Selected talk

Deep-time speciation genomics of mammoth

Kelsey Moreland Centre for Palaeogenetics
6 10:30-10:35 Flash talk

Efficient and flexible analysis of fine-scale population structure using rare variants

Lei Huang Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
7 10:35-10:40 Flash talk

Reconstructing population admixture graph using GTmix2

Yufeng Wu University of Connecticut
8 10:40-10:45 Flash talk

Ancient genomic insights into East Asian bovine and caprine domestication: Challenges, discoveries and future

Zehui Chen Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology
9 10:45-10:50 Flash talk

Population genomic insights from ancient sediment DNA in arctic plant species

Chenyu Jin Swedish Museum of Natural History
10 10:50-10:55 Flash talk

A flexible and efficient new model to infer multiple admixture dates via joint analyses of modern and/or ancient individuals

Nancy Bird University College London
11 10:55-11:00 Flash talk

Dual origin of Turkic speaking peoples

Daniel Tabin Harvard University

Room 5, Building No. 8 (UTC+8)

09:00-11:00 (UTC+8) | Symposium 35: Open symposium session E
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 09:00-09:15 Selected talk

Tracing the evolution of bacterial motility through protein structure

Caroline Puente-Lelievre University of Auckland
2 09:15-09:30 Selected talk

On the origin of de novo protein-coding genes in Arabidopsis

Yalong Guo Institute of Botany, CAS
3 09:30-09:45 Selected talk

Genomic convergence and divergence following parallel selection of diploid and tetraploid cotton

Jianying Li HZAU
4 09:45-10:00 Selected talk

The changing mechanism and evolvability of a conserved function

Yeonwoo Park Seoul National University
5 10:00-10:05 Flash talk

Diversity of vertebrate transposable elements in anurans

Ravinder Kanda Oxford Brookes University
6 10:05-10:10 Flash talk

MAST-HMM: Fitting multiple trees from a single alignment with a Hidden Markov Model

Thomas Wong Australian National University
7 10:10-10:15 Flash talk

Comparative phenotypic analysis of rhodopsin supports stepwise evolution of dim-light vision in early vertebrates

Yang Liu Shaanxi Normal University
8 10:15-10:20 Flash talk

Gene duplication and the diverse diet of the black soldier fly

Daniele Kunz University of Cambridge
9 10:20-10:25 Flash talk

Taming the beast: adaptive introgression from dogs might explain unique behavior in Iberian gray wolves

Carlos Sarabia Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB)
10 10:25-10:30 Flash talk

Evolution in metazoans of the temperature-sensing transient receptor potential (TRP) ion channel families TRPV and TRPM

Dan Larhammar Guangdong Institute of Intelligence Science and Technology
11 10:30-10:35 Flash talk

Gene pyramiding and genetic architecture of extreme phenotype in chicken

Cheng Ma Uppsala universitet
12 10:35-10:40 Flash talk

Genomes of antarctic and subantarctic penguins reveal local adaptation associated with facial coloration divergence

Eduardo Fabián Jiménez Delgadillo Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
13 10:40-10:45 Flash talk

Experimental evolution of gene regulatory networks in Drosophila

Xueying Li Beijing Normal University
14 10:45-10:50 Flash talk

Discovery of zymocin-like killer toxin gene clusters in the nuclear genomes of filamentous fungi

Padraic Heneghan Conway Institute, University College Dublin
15 10:50-10:55 Flash talk

Flight style associated with energy metabolism predict genomic evolutionary rates in birds

Yanzhu Ji Institute of Zoology, CAS
16 10:55-11:00 Flash talk

Tracing cell lineage in arabidopsis reveals common mutations in progeny from different branches, rare in somatic cells of parental plant

Wenfeng Qian Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, CAS