- Talk 1: Marc Güell (UPF MELIS)

"Synthetic evolution of novel proteins"

- Talk 2: Arnau Sebe-Pedros (CRG)

"Evolutionary single-cell genomics"

Dario Valenzano (Leibniz Institute on Aging - FLI)

"Evolution and ecology of aging – insights from short-lived killifish"

Host: Manuel Irimia

This meeting is a special event organized by the EvoMG Program and BIOMICS, an EC Twinning grant coordinated by GIMM (Lisbon) including the CRG, EMBL-EBI and ETH-Zurich (https://biomics.gimm.pt/). The goal of this meeting is to bring together all researchers working on the different areas of evolutionary medical genomics to discuss their projects and do networking. 

- Talk 1: Francesc Calafell (UPF-IBE)

"EvoMG: a view from the last few centuries of human evolution"

- Talk 2: Elena Bosch (UPF-IBE)

"Deciphering Human Adaptation: From Detecting Genomic Signatures to Understanding Adaptive Phenotypes"

- Talk 1: Eva Brigos Barril (Navarro Lab, UPF-IBE-CRG)

"Why do we get sick? Genetic evidence for evolutionary trade-offs between fertility, longevity, and disease"

- Talk 2: Mireia Valles-Colomer (UPF)

"The neuroactive potential of the human gut microbiome and its social transmission"

This Symposium will bring together researchers from different areas under the unifying umbrella of Evolutionary Medical Genomics.

The two confirmed keynote speakers are Debbie Marks (Harvard Med School) and Sandy Anderson (Moffitt Cancer Centre) and we will have several sessions covering the areas of the EvoMG Program, with two re-known invited speakers per sessions.

- Talk 1: Bernardo Rodriguez-Marin (CRG)

"Cataloguing and investigating the evolution of human specific LINE-1 polymorphisms using long-read assemblies"

- Talk 2: Tabita Hunemeier (CSIC-IBE)

"Exploring Brazilian genomic admixture for medical and evolutionary research"

Pharmacologically manipulating evolution

Discussion with Dr. Trevor Graham, chaired by Dr. Manuel Irimia.

- Talk 1: Amelie Baud (CRG)

"Host-microbiome interactions and levels of natural selection"

- Talk 2: Oscar Lao (CSIC-IBE)

"Evaluating Evolutionary Theories in Complex Medical Traits"

Heather Machado (Welcome Sanger Institute)

"Somatic evolution of the adaptive immune system in health and disease"

Host: Manuel Irimia