Evolution 2018

The scale of the Evolution2018 joint congress held in Montpellier was almost overwhelming. The organisation was impeccable and we would like to thank the organising committee, and in particular Ophélie Ronce and Yannis Michalakis, for facilitating our ADAPT symposium. Thanks also to all the presenters of posters and talks. We were lucky to receive a broad range of abstracts, but had the unenviable task of selecting just 7 talks and 7 posters from the many submissions. We hope to offer a second opportunity for post-graduate students and early career postdocs to present at an event in 2019. For those that were unable to attend, you can now access a selection of the talks via the links below.

Natural selection shaped the rise and fall of passenger pigeon genomic diversity

Gemma Murray

https://goo.gl/YQUfXj

Detecting polygenic adaptation in human evolution using ancient DNA

Fernando Racimo

https://goo.gl/EvYCGq

Selection trajectories of genetic variants underlying domestic animal traits

Evan Irving-Pease

Tracking selection in time-series population genomic data using ABC random forests

Vitor Pavinato

https://goo.gl/NQjcAc

Tracking plant phenology and genetic diversity during environmental change using contemporary and historical samples 

Patricia Lang

https://goo.gl/5rQhbA

Back to the future in a petri dish: origin and impact of resurrected microbes in natural populations

Ellen Decaestecker

https://goo.gl/oMY1Pi

Tracking Six Millenia of Horse Selection, Admixture and Management with Complete Genome Time-Series

Antoine Fages

https://goo.gl/XDWzSk