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Session 1: Concepts, methods and limits for reconstructing evolution

14:10-16:30 Keynote speakers - Chairman Bernard Degnan

Hervé Philippe “Between data quality and model violations, what can tell phylogenomics about deep metazoan relationships?”

Ronald  Jenner “Evidence and imagination in the quest to understand animal origins”

Gert Wörheide “Is my oldest sister really a sea walnut? Debugging the myth...”

Eric Bapteste “ Making sense of the origins of metazoans:  a naive perspective on a true challenge” 

16:30-18:30 Poster Session I

18:30-19:30 Selected short presentations Warren Francis, Nathan Whelan, Richard Copley

Session 2: Origin of multicellularity and communication

8:30-10:40 Keynote speakers Chairman Abdel Aouacheria

Abderrazzak  El Albani “Fossils from Gabon show early steps toward multicellularity and the oldest biodiversity 2.1 billion years ago : A new chapter of Life history”

Thomas W. Holstein “On the evolution of metazoan body axes”

Timothy Jegla “The evolution of ion channel signaling in early metazoans”

Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo “The origin of multicellular animals: a perspective from their unicellular relatives”

Session 3: Epithelial morphogenesis

11:00-12:45 Keynote speakers - Chairman Alexander Ereskovsky

William A Weis "Evolution of a Multi-Functional Adhesion Module Necessary for Complex Multicellularity”

Bernard Degnan “Origin of the animal regulatory genome: insights from non-coding sequences in the demosponge Amphimedon queenslandica”

 André Le Bivic “Epithelial organization and the SpongEx project” 

Session 4: Stem Cells and Regeneration

14:00-15:45 Keynote speakers - Chairman Emmanuelle Renard

Noriko Funayama “What we can learn from sponges? – Origin of stem cells and a novel mechanism to construct 3-dimensional body”

Brigitte Galliot “Loss of neurogenesis in Hydra, a path to proto-neuronal ages?”

Detlev Arendt “The origin of neural cell types at the dawn of nervous system evolution”

15:45-16:45 Selected short presentations Alexander Ereskovsky,  Xavier Grau Bové, Núria Ros, Sebastian Najle

16:45-18:45 Poster Session II

18:45-19:45 Selected short presentations Arnau Sebé-Pedrós, Igor Pozdnyakov,  Aldine Amiel

Session 5: Patterning

9:00-10:45 Keynote speakers Chairman Andrea Pasini

 Evelyn Houliston “Origins of developmental mechanisms in the eumetazoa: Lessons from the hydrozoan Clytia hemisphaerica”

 Maja Adamska “Surprisingly diverse Wnt and Tgf-beta pathways are involved in embryonic and postembryonic development and regeneration of calcisponges”

Bernd Schierwater“The Triple T Approach fuels the New Placula Hypothesis”

11:00-12:00 Selected short presentations Klaske  Schippers, Quentin Schenkelaars, François Payre