Wednesday 02 July 2008
Morning sessions
9:00-9:30
Opening ceremony
PHYLOGEOGRAPHY
9:30-10:00
Christian Brochmann, Oslo
Phylogeography of arctic-alpine plants - recent advances
10:00-10:20
Magnus Popp, Oslo
Comparative phylogeography of Afro-alpine plants inferred from AFLP and plastid DNA variation
10:20-10:50
Coffee break
10:50-11:10
Michal Ronikier, Kraków
Phylogeographic structure of alpine plants in the Carpathians: a comparative study
11:10-11:30
Judita Lihova, Bratislava
Phylogeography of the two alpine sister species Cardamine resedifolia and C. alpina in Europe
11:30-11:50
Katharina Bardy, Vienna
Phylogeography on the Balkan Peninsula - examples from Veronica (Plantaginaceae)
11:50-13:40
Lunch
Wednesday 02 July 2008
Afternoon sessions
BIOGEOGRAPHY
13:40-14:10
Andreas Tribsch, Salzburg
The importance of refugia for the evolution of alpine and arctic-alpine plants
14:10-14:30
Emadzade Khatere, Vienna
Phylogenetic and biogeographical studies of alpine species of Ranunculus in Eurasia
14:30-14:50
Božo Frajman, Ljubljana
Phylogeny and biogeography of selected plant groups from the Balkan Peninsula
14:50-15:10
Zbigniew Mirek, Kraków
Phytogeographical relationships of high-mountain flora in the Carpathians
15:10-15:40
Cofee break
15:40-16:00
Conny Thiel-Egenter, Birmensdorf
When phylogeography meets biogeography: inter- and intraspecific differentiation and genetic diversity in alpine plants
16:00-16:20
Kristine Bakke Westergaard, Tromsø
Did vascular plants and bryophytes survive the last glaciation in Scandinavia?
16:20-18:00
Poster session
Thursday 03 July 2008
Morning sessions
EVOLUTIONARY PROCESSES IN EUROPEAN MOUNTAIN RANGES
8:30-9:00
Elena Conti, Zürich
Primula sect. Aleuritia, a paradigm of hybrid speciation via secondary contact
9:00-9:20
Josef Greimler, Vienna
Gentianella (Gentianaceae): A model taxon for evolution in the European mountains
9:20-9:40
Gerald M. Schneeweiss, Vienna
Evolving towards the tops: phylogeny and evolution of the European endemic Phyteuma (Campanulaceae)
9:40-10:00
Marian Ørgaard, Copenhagen
Crocus - Evolution and domestication
10:00-10:30
Coffee break
10:30-11:00
Gonzalo Nieto Feliner, Madrid
Refuges within refuges - evolutionary complex patterns in southern Spanish mountain ranges
11:00-11:20
Anna Jasińska, Kórnik
Is hybridization between Pinus sylvestris and P. uncinata expressed in morphological traits?
11:20-11:40
Mihai Puscas, Cluj-Napoca
Species-genetic diversity correlation in the European alpine grasslands dominated by Carex curvula
11:40-12:00
Sònia Garcia, Barcelona
Evolutionary studies in a group of high mountain Artemisia: molecular cytogenetic, phylogenetic and genome size data
12:00-13:30
Lunch
Thursday 03 July 2008
Afternoon sessions
POLYPLOIDY
13:30-14:00
Douglas Soltis, Gainesville
Polyploidy and angiosperm diversification
14:00-14:20
Peter Schönswetter, Vienna
Polyploid evolution and ecological differentiation in Senecio carniolicus (Asteraceae)
14:20-14:40
Barbora Šingliarová, Bratislava
Genetic and ploidy level variation in vicariant taxa from the Pilosella alpicola group
14:40-15:00
Heidi Solstad, Oslo
Species delimitation in a complex polyploid group - Papaver section Meconella
15:00-15:20
Kentaro K. Shimizu, Zürich
Recurrent allopolyploidization in Brassicaceae
15:20-15:50
Coffee break
15:50-16:20
Tod Stuessy, Vienna
Phylogeography and polyploid evolution in the white-rayed complex of Melampodium (Asteraceae)
16:20-16:40
Violetta Kotseruba, St. Petersburg
Participation of the high mountainous grass Colpodium versicolor in evolution of some Zingeria species
16:40-17:00
Monika Bozek, Kraków
Chromosome evolution in selected mountainous species of Luzula (woodrush)
17:00-17:20
Jan Suda, Praha
From individuals to populations: the impact of flow cytometry on understanding polyploid evolution in mountain plants
17:20-17:40
Olga Raskina, Haifa
Evolutionary-related changes in marginal wheat populations - speciation versus elimination
17.40-18:00
Ovidiu Paun, Kew
Evolutionary responses towards adaptation and speciation after allopolyploidization in Dactylorhiza (Orchidaceae)
Friday 04 July 2008
Morning sessions
MOLECULAR APPROACHES IN PLANT EVOLUTION
8:30-9:00
Pierre Taberlet, Grenoble
DNA barcoding and reconstruction of past plant communities from permafrost samples
9:00-9:20
Hana Šrubařová, Brno
Population-specific features of epigenetic silencing at ribosomal rRNA loci in recently and recurrently formed Tragopogon allotetraploids
9:20-9:40
Oluwatoyin T. Ogundipe, Lagos
Molecular studies of Amaranthaceae based on matK DNA sequence data
9:40-10:00
Anne Krag-Brysting, Oslo
Evolution of the RNA polymerase gene family in the polyploid Cerastium alpinum complex
10:00.10:20
Eric Schranz, Amsterdam
Comparative genomics in the Brassicaceae: Genetic mapping, chemical defense and apomixis in montane Boechera
10:20-10:50
Coffee break
ECOLOGICAL FACTORS IN PLANT EVOLUTION
10:50-11:20
Juerg Stoecklin, Basel
Population differentiation, local adaptation and gene flow in the alpine landscape
11:20-11:40
Joerg Wunder, Cologne
How alpine landscapes and dispersal vectors shape gene-flow and population structure in Melampyrum sylvaticum
11:40-12:00
Nadir Alvarez, Neuchâtel
Soil ecology as a driver of spatial genetic structure in alpine plants
12:00-12:20
Hiroshi Kudoh, Kobe
Habitat exploitation and diversification through inter-ecological-type allopolyploidization
12:20-13:50
Lunch
Friday 04 July 2008
Afternoon sessions
EVOLUTIONARY PROCESSES IN EXTRA-EUROPEAN MOUNTAINS
13:50-14:10
Ilse Breitwieser, Lincoln
New Zealand alpine Asteraceae
14:10-14:30
Alexandre Antonelli, Gothenburg
The Andean uplift and its influence on Neotropical biodiversity
14:30-14:50
Itayguara Ribeiro da Costa, Campinas
Polyploid evolution in rock outcrop mountains of south-eastern Brazil
14:50-15:10
Claudia Voelckel, Palmerston North
Transcriptional and biochemical signatures of speciation in New Zealand alpine cress
15:10-15:40
Coffee break
15:40-16:00
Marie-Stephanie Samain, Gent
Evolution of terrestrial life forms in the genus Peperomia (Piperaceae): a result of
orogeny of the Andes and the Sierra Madre, or radiation out of ice age refugia?
ROLE OF APOMIXIS IN PLANT EVOLUTION
16:00-16:30
Frantisek Krahulec, Praha
Agamic complex of Pilosella: comparison of its structure in two mountain ranges in Central Europe
16:30-16:50
Patrik Mráz, Fribourg
Geographic parthenogenesis and genetic structure in arcto-alpine species Hieracium alpinum
16:50-17:10
Anne-Caroline Cosendai, Vienna
Facultative apomixis in the alpine Ranunculus kuepferi (Ranunculaceae) enhances colonization of previously glaciated areas
17:10-17:30
Radim J. Vašut, Olomouc
Apomixis in Taraxacum: European and Himalayan taxa from the cytogenetic viewpoint