Program
24.4. Wednesday
11:00 -> Registration starts in the lobby of the Aura-building (follow the signs)
11:30 – 13:00 Lunch & Setting up the posters
13:00 – 13:10 Welcoming words, main lecture hall AU100
Session 1: Species and community inventories
Chair: Jaakko Pohjoismäki
13:10 – 14:10 Keynote speaker Tomas Roslin: Making sense of hyperdiverse taxa using molecular methods
14:10 – 14:30 Veronika Laine, The Finnish Museum of Natural History: Natural history museums and molecular research
14:30 – 14:50 Suvi Olli, University of Oulu: Comparison of environmental DNA protocols for moor frog (Rana arvalis) detection
14:50 – 15:10 Coen Westerduin, University of Oulu: Dietary niches and their consequences for five insectivorous boreal forest passerines
15:10 – 15:30 Hannah Weller, University of Helsinki: recolorize: An R package for flexible colour segmentation of biological images
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee
Session 2: Conservation genetics
Chair: Tomas Roslin
16:00 – 16:20 Alina Niskanen, University of Oulu: Inbreeding genomics and inbreeding depression in the Finnish gray wolf
16:20 – 16:40 Dominika Bujnakova, University of Oulu: Why we need large scale genetic assessments – a case of the Eurasian wolverine
16:40 – 17:00 Gerrit Wehrenberg, University of Oulu: A reduced SNP panel for non-invasive assessment of a genetically impoverished conservation icon, the European bison
17:00 – 17:20 Raisa Nikula, Metsähallitus Wildlife Service Finland: Genetic diversity of the declining River Oulanka brown trout
17:20 -> Poster session, hangout time
19:00 -> Free dispersal downtown for dinner & drinks
25.4. Thursday
Session 3: Evolution of genomes and species
Chair: Giovanna Mottola
09:00 – 10:00 Keynote speaker Elina Immonen: A genetic tug-of-war between the sexes sustains genetic variation and shapes sex chromosomes
[10:00 – 12:00 a parallel workshop on eDNA in AU204]
10:00 – 10:20 Julian Schach, University of Helsinki: Molecular Phylogeny of Cotesia Parasitizing Melitaeini Butterflies and the Possible Role of Wolbachia Endosymbionts
10:20 – 10:40 Amaïa Lamarins, University of Helsinki: How do Atlantic salmon respond to selective pressures under various genetic architectures of life-history traits?
10:40 – 11:10 Coffee
Session 4: Metabolic adaptations and evolution
Chair: Elina Immonen
11:10 – 11:30 Kateryna Gaertner, Tampere University & Riikka Tapanainen, University of Eastern Finland: Hare fibroblasts present distinct metabolic signatures associated with adaptive thermogenesis
11:30 – 11:50 Flávia Nitta Fernandes, University of Helsinki: Adaptive mismatch as a potential mechanism of adaptation in a long-lived species
11:50 – 12:10 Nina Cossin-Sevrin, University of Turku: Early-life adversity modulates growth trajectories and mitochondrial metabolism in king penguin chicks
12:10 – 12:30 Robin Cristofari, University of Helsinki: Methylation patterns reveal the cost of a sedentary life for an active bird
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
Session 5: Genomics of adaptation 1
Chair: Anssi Vainikka
13:30 – 14:30 Keynote speaker Anti Vasemägi: Host-parasite genomics in aquatic realm
14:30 – 14:50 Victoria Twort, Finnish Museum of Natural History: Unlocking the evolutionary history and adaptation of Myotis bats in response to a fungal pathogen
14:50 – 15:10 Miguel Baltazar-Soares, University of Turku: Genomic basis of melanin-associated phenotypes suggests colour-specific environmental adaptations in tawny owls
15:10 – 15:30 Thais Ferreira-Araújo, University of Helsinki: Shedding light on the mystery of freshwater breeding flounders with otolith microchemistry and genomics
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee
Session 6: Genomics of adaptation 2
Chair: Anti Vasemägi
16:00 – 16:20 Ana Sofia Lindeza, University of Helsinki: A common-garden experiment reveals additive effects of two life-history loci on age-at-maturity in Atlantic salmon
16:20 – 16:40 Heidi Viitaniemi, University of Turku: Genetic responses of local populations in response to the establishment of novel invasive species
16:40 – 17:00 Maria Cadiz, University of Helsinki: Exploring population genetic structure and life history diversity of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in the Näätämö River
17:00 – 17:20 Tuomas Leinonen, Luke: Genetic structure of the River Teno brown trout populations
18:30 – 23:00 Gala dinner in Club Kerubi
26.4. Friday
Session 7: Biodiversity genomics to phenotypes
Chair: Saskia Wutke
09:00 – 10:00 Keynote speaker Camila Mazzoni: Genomic enablement of Neotropical species
10:00 – 10:20 Zsófia Fekete, University of Eastern Finland: High-quality reference genome assemblies for two hare species and their utilization in population genomics
10:20 – 10:40 April Snøfrid Kleppe, University of Jyväskylä: Phenotypic evolvability and protein networks
10:40 – 11:00 Ilkka Kronholm, University of Jyväskylä: How chromatin structure shapes natural genetic diversity
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee
Session 8: Functional (holo)genomics
Chair: Camila Mazzoni
11:30 – 11:50 Xindi Huang, University of Helsinki: Identification of Tissue-specific Novel Genes and LncRNAs Associated with Maturation in Atlantic salmon
11:50 – 12:10 Patrick Heidbreder, University of Helsinki: Genome-wide barriers after a history of divergence with gene flow in Formica ants
12:10 – 12:30 Suvi Ruuskanen, University of Jyväskylä: Gut microbiome underlying winter adaptations in wild birds
12:30 – 12:50 Announcing poster prices
12:50 – 13:20 Closing remarks: Prof. Craig Primmer, University of Helsinki
13:20 End of the official program, Lunch
13:20 – 14:20 FinMolEcol PI lunch & meeting
(Get-together activities in Joensuu)
27.4. Saturday: Field excursion to Koli
Departure from Joensuu 9 am, return 5 pm.
