 10h-10h30 | Reception |
 10h30-11h30 | Microbial history as inferred from genome sequence analysis |
| Siv Andersson - University of Uppsala, Sweden | |
| 11h30-12h | Coffee break |
| 12h-12h45 | The evolution of eukaryotic gene order (Part 1) |
| Martin Lercher - University of Bath, UK | |
| Outline of the presentation | |
| 13h-15h | Lunch |
| 15h-15h45 | The evolution of eukaryotic gene order (Part 2) |
| Martin Lercher - University of Bath, UK | |
| 15h45-16h15 | Coffee break (short) |
| 16h15-17h15 | How malleable is the eukaryotic genome: extreme rate of rearrangement in the genus Drosophila (title and duration to be confirmed) |
| Alfredo Ruiz - Departament de Genètica i de Micriobiologia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain | |
| 17h15-17h30 | Coffee break |
| 17h30-18h15 | Generation of natural Drosophila inversions by transposable elements (title and duration to be confirmed) |
| Alfredo Ruiz - Departament de Genètica i de Micriobiologia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain | |
| 19h30 | Diner (approximate price: 25 Euros) |
| 10h-11h | Genome rearrangements in mammalian genomes |
| Guillaume Bourque - University of Montreal, Canada | |
| 11h-11h30 | Coffee break |
| 11h30-12h45 | What is in between conserved segments? |
| David Sankoff - University of Ottawa and Centre de Recherches Mathématiques of Montreal, Canada | |
| 12h45-14h15 | Lunch |
| 14h15-15h30 | In silico and in vivo analysis of genome plasticity: applications to a non-model bacteria, Lactococcus lactis |
| Pascal Le Bourgeois - Laboratoire de Microbiologie et Génétique Moléculaires, Toulouse, France | |
| Abstract | |
| 15h30-15h50 | Coffee break |
| 15h50-16h50 | Large DNA rearrangements and variability of the terminal regions of the Streptomyces linear chromosome |
| Bertrand Aigle - Laboratoire de Génétique et Microbiologie, Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy, France | |
| Abstract | |
| 16h50-17h10 | Coffee break |
| 17h10-18h10 | Using gene order information for orthologue identification |
| Elisabeth Tillier - Université de Toronto, Canada | |
| 18h10-18h30 | Coffee break |
| 18h30-19h30 | Dynamics of genome rearrangements in Rhizobia |
| Patrick Mavingui - Université Claude Bernard, Lyon, France | |
| Work with Margarita Flores, Xianwu Guo and Rafael Palacios | |
| 20h | Lighter diner for those having survived the previous one (approximate price: 25 Euros) |
| 10h-11h | Validating gene clusters in comparative genomics |
| Dannie Durand - Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA | |
| 11h-11h30 | Coffee break |
| 11h30-12h45 | Chromosomal evolution: approaches and limits to the inference of phylogenies |
| Bernard Dutrillaux - Institut Curie, Paris, France | |
| 12h45-14h30 | Lunch |
| 14h30-15h45 | Creativity and disorder: the ambiguous roles of repeats in genome evolution |
| Eduardo Rocha - Université Paris VI and Institut Pasteur, Paris, France | |
| References | |
| 15h45-16h | Coffee break |
| 16h-17h15 | The human minisatellites: structure and mechanisms of rearrangement |
| Alain Nicolas - Institut Curie, Paris, France |
