 9h30-10h | Reception |
 10h-11h | Models of molecular evolution and variation in genomic regions with low recombination |
| Brian Charlesworth - University of Edinburgh, Scotland | |
| Abstract | |
| 11h-11h30 | Coffee break |
| 11h30-12h30 | Can increasing error rates be beneficial ? |
| François Taddei - Faculté de Médecine "Necker - Enfants Malades", Paris | |
| 12h30-14h30 | Lunch |
| 14h30-15h30 | The correlation between intron size and recombination rate: impact of transposable elements |
| Gabriel Marais - Université Claude Bernard, Lyon 1 | |
| Abstract | |
| 15h30-16h | Coffee break |
| 16h-17h | Evolution of the animal mitochondrial genome: new horizons |
| Dennis Lavrov - Université de Montréal, Canada | |
| 17h-17h30 | Coffee break |
| 17h30-18h30 | Vanishing Genomes and Emergent Proteomes: Mitochondrial Origins |
| Charles Kurland - Uppsala University, Sweden | |
| 19h30 | Diner (approximative price: 25 Euros) |
| 9h30-10h30 | Constraints on lateral gene transfer in prokaryotes |
| Jeffrey Lawrence - University of Pittsburgh, USA | |
| 10h30-11h | Coffee break |
| 11h-12h | Methods for detecting heterotachy and implications for functional shifts in proteins |
| Hervé Philippe - Université Paris VI | |
| 12h-14h | Lunch |
| 14h-15h | Uses and Abuses of Gene Transfer in Evolutionary Scenarios |
| Charles Kurland - Uppsala University, Sweden | |
| 15h-15h30 | Coffee break |
| 15h30-16h30 | Repeating to change: variations on a theme around bacterial evolution |
| Eduardo Rocha - Institut Pasteur et Université de Paris VI | |
| Abstract | |
| 16h30-17h | Coffee break |
| 17h-18h | Vanishing GC-rich isochores in mammalian genomes |
| Laurent Duret - Université Claude Bernard, Lyon 1 | |
| Abstract | |
| 18h-18h30 | Coffee break |
| 18h30-19h30 | Gene content evolution and genome phylogenies |
| Berend Snel - EMBL Heidelberg, Germany | |
| 9h30-10h30 | Comparative analysis of yeast genomes |
| Bernard Dujon - Institut Pasteur, Paris | |
| 10h30-11h | Coffee break |
| 11h-12h | Gene order evolution and paleopolyploidy in hemiascomycete genomes |
| Ken Wolfe - University of Dublin, Ireland | |
| 12h-14h | Lunch |
| 14h-15h | Titre à préciser |
| Eric Coissac - Université Paris VI | |
| 15h-15h30 | Coffee break |
| 15h30-16h30 | Large scale gene duplications and their evolutionary consequences |
| Yves van de Peer - University of Gent, Belgium | |
| 16h30-17h | Coffee break |
| 17h-18h | Fish genome evolution: synteny vs phylogeny? |
| Marc Robinson-Rechavi - ENS Lyon |
