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9:00 – 9:30 Registration
9:30 – 11:30 Session I
Auditorium “Carlos Graef Fernández”, Amoxcalli
9:30 – 9:35 – Opening remarks Alicia Mastretta, CONABIO
9:35 – 10:20 “Genomics of sexuality in vertebrates” Diego Cortez Quezada, Center for Genomic Sciences UNAM
10:20 – 10:40 “New Digs: Revisiting Paleoanthropology in the Genome Editing Era” Keolu Fox, University of California, San Diego, USA.
10:40 – 11:00 “Genetic structure of Mexican population”. Juan Carlos Guevara López, ENAH, INMEGEN, Mexico.
Lightning talks 1
11:00 – 11:10 “Dissimilar evolutionary processes drive morphological and genetic differentiation across a subtropical fir species complex”. Jorge Cruz Nicolas, Institute of Ecology, UNAM, Mexico.
11:10 – 11:20 “Can Mexico City’s peripheral forest adapt to tropospheric ozone pollution?: Transcriptome analysis of the sacred fir (Abies religiosa) in a natural setting”. Verónica Reyes Galindo, Institute of Ecology, UNAM, Mexico.
11:20 – 11:30 “From microendemic to invasive species: evolutionary genomics, range changes, and fundamental niche of Trachemys turtles”. Ella Vázquez-Domínguez. Institute of Ecology, UNAM, Mexico.
11:30 – 12:00. Coffee break
12:00 – 13:45 Session II
12:00 – 12:45 “Comparative genomics of longevity in mammals”Araxi Urrutia Odabachian, University of Bath.
12:45 – 13:05 “Domestication of maize: the importance of wild relatives in assessing the center of origin”. Alejandra Moreno-Letelier, The Botanical Garden, Institute of Biology, UNAM, Mexico.
13:05 – 13:25 “Soil environment is a key driver of adaptation in Medicago truncatula: new insights from landscape genomics”. Jimena Guerrero, Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionelle et Evolutive, France.
Lightning talks 2
13:25 – 13:35 “Reticulate evolution and relaxed selection shaped the temperate to subtropical transition in Mexican firs”. Juan Pablo Jaramillo-Correa. Institute of Ecology, UNAM, Mexico
13:35 – 13:45 “Surveying pathogens in the oral cavity of Pre-Hispanic and Colonial individuals from Central Mexico through paleogenomics”. Miriam Bravo López, LIIGH-UNAM, Mexico.
13:45 – 14:45 Lunch
14:45 – 16:00 Posters&Postres” Session
Lobby of Conjunto Amoxcalli, School of Sciences
16:00 – 17:55 Session III
16:00 – 16:45 “Comparative population genomic inference of demography and selection” Alexander T. Xue. Simons Center for Quantitative Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA.
Lightning talks 3
16:45 – 16:55 “Genomic perspectives on the Afro-Caribbean diaspora in the Lesser Antilles” . Maria A. Nieves Colón, Arizona State University, USA, LANGEBIO-CINVESTAV, Mexico.
16:55 – 17:05 “Anolis lizards, an interesting model for tropical forest fragmentation studies”. Sandra Itzel Vera Paz, Institute of Biology, UNAM, Mexico.
17:05 – 17:15 “Natural variation and regulation of ribosomal RNA genes”. Fernando A. Rabanal, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology , Germany.
17:15 – 17:25 “Combining pairs of archaic and present-day samples to infer past demographic events”. Diego Ortega Del Vecchyo, LIIGH-UNAM, Mexico.
17:25 – 17:35 “Population structure, genomic diversity and phylogeographic patterns in the Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana)”. Sergio Nigenda-Morales, LANGEBIO-CINVESTAV, Mexico.
17:35 – 17:45 “Ancient Brazilian Genomics”. Diana Ivette Cruz-Dávalos, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
17:45 – 17:55 “Relatedness and differentiation in arbitrary population structures”. Alejandro Ochoa. Duke University, USA.
*NB: The program is subject to changes
