Confirmed Speakers Aneil Agrawal University of Toronto Ecology of selection on deleterious mutations in subdivided populations: theory and data Jennifer Anderson University of Oregon C. elegans males perform best under pressure Marco Archetti University of Oxford Intragenomic conflicts in the evolution of recombination and sex Irina Arkhipova Marine Biological Laboratory Massive horizontal gene transfer in bdelloid rotifers Philip Awadalla University of Montreal Discovering Recombination Hotspots in Malaria Ricardo Azevedo University of Houston Assortative mating and population structure favor the maintenance of sex Doris Bachtrog Univerisity of California Berkeley Evolutionary Genomics of Sex Chromosomes Graham Bell McGill University Sexual dynamics in complex communities Bill Birky University of Arizona Positively negative evidence for possibly scandalous ancient asexuals. Antonio Bernardo Carvalho Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Origin and evolution of the Y chromosome: Drosophila tales. Adam Chippindale Queen's University Sexual Conflict: Arms Race or Tug of War? Idelle Cooper University of Wisconsin - Madison Sexual dimorphism and speciation in Three-spine Stickleback species pairs Thomas D'Souza University of Tuebingen Sex in asexuals: How occasional sex determines the fate of parthenogenetic populations Lynda Delph Indiana University The genomics of sexual dimorphism: comparing G matrices and QTLs Beth Dumont University of Wisconsin Polymorphism and Divergence in Recombination Rate among House Mice Ursula Goodenough Washington Univeristy Chlamydomonas Sex and the Sex-Organelle Genome Connection Lilach Hadany Tel Aviv University, University of Iowa Why a little bit of sex is not always enough: the role of sexual selection Joseph Heitman Duke University Medical Center Evolution of sex in fungi Donal Hickey Concordia University Intraspecific competition can promote the maintenance of genetic recombination. Timothy James University of Michigan Heterokaryosis and its advantages and disadvantages relative to diploidy Vera Kaiser University of Edinburgh Sl-Cyt, a newly identified sex-linked gene, has recently moved onto the X chromosome in Silene latifolia (Caryophyllaceae) Alexey Kondrashov University of Michigan Is obligate sex evolutionarily possible? Jennifer Kovacs Georgia Institute of Technology Sexual selection in social insects Curt Lively Indiana University Sex and the Red Queen Michael Lynch Indiana University The Causes and Consequences of Meisois Suppression in Daphnia David Mark Welch Marine Biological Laboratory Natural Selection in the Absence of Segregation in the Genomes of Bdelloid Rotifers Bryant McAllister University of Iowa Using genome rearrangements in Drosophila to study sex chromosome evolution Stephanie Meirmans University of Bergen The evolution of the problem of sex Matthew Meselson Harvard University Homologous Genetic Transfer in Rotifers of Class Bdelloidea Levi Morran University of Oregon Why Sex with a Companion is Better: Mutation Load and Rapid Adaptation Favor Outcrossing Over Self-Fertilization Maurine Neiman University of Iowa Accelerated mutation accumulation in asexual lineages of a New Zealand snail Stephen Proulx UC Santa Barbara Migration load, genetic architecture, and selection on female mating preferences Rosemary Redfield University of British Columbia Do bacteria have sex? Denis Roze CNRS, University Paris 06 Evolution of sex in finite, diploid populations Ingo Schlupp University of Oklahoma Mate Choice and the Amazon Molly Isa Schon Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences Dragqueens or real kings? Ancient asexual Darwinulidae (Ostracoda, Crustacea) Andrew Schurko University of Iowa Abstinence only? Searching for evidence of sexual reproduction in bdelloid rotifers using a meiosis detection toolkit Tanja Schwander Simon Fraser University Positive feedback loops in the transition from sexual reproduction to parthenogenesis in Timema stick insects Rama Singh McMaster University Molecular signatures of sexual selection: Implications for maintaining population evolvability David Soll University of Iowa The Evolution in a Mating-Incompetent Cell of a Pheromone Response Pathway from the Response Pathway for Mating in Candida albicans Laurie Stevison Duke University Genomic analysis of recombination rates within Drosophila persimilis and between D. persimilis and D. pseudoobscura Andrew Stewart University of California, Santa Barbara An adaptive cost of male mate preference for high fitness females Marcy Uyenoyama Duke University Self-incompatibility in flowering plants: Asexuality and sexual antagonism under complete linkage Anna Williford University of Iowa Effect of partial linkage on estimates of selection Melissa Wilson The Pennsylvania State University Male mutation bias observed across 34 mammalian species Clifford Zeyl Wake Forest University The role of sex in diversifying yeast populations

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