==== Friday 3 July ====

13.00 – 13.30
Genome-wide identification of orthologs and phylogenetic gene tree reconstruction
Ilan Wapinski
(Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA  USA)

13.30 – 14.00
Whole Genome Orthology Prediction Among Amniotes
Leo Goodstadt
(MRC Functional Genetics Unit, University of Oxford, UK)

14.00 – 14.30
Annotating Gene Histories
Guy Perriere, 
(University of Lyon, France)
 
14.30 – 15.00
Orthologs as the New Homologs – Evolution and Functional Inference
William Pearson
(William Pearson, USA)

15.00 – 15.30
Phylogeny-Based Prediction of Orthology at Genomic Scales: Challenges and Opportunities 
Toni Gabaldon
(Centre for Genomic Regulation, Spain) 


16.00 – 16.20
Classifying of orthology relation and inferring protein interaction from correlations of evolutionary distances
Teresa Przytck
( NIH, USA)

16.20 – 16.50
Orthology, Paralogy and Beyond:
Annotating Gene Function using Evolutionary Trees
Paul Thomas 
(SRI International, USA)

16.50 – 17.20
Albert Vilella
(EBI, UK)

17.20 – 17.50
Orthology Prediction in the Twilight Zone
Martijn Huynen
(Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Netherlands)

==== Sat 4 July====


09.00 – 09.20
Using Synteny to Sort Out Reciprocal Gene Loss and Rapid Ortholog Divergence in Yeast Species
Ken Wolfe
(Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Ireland)

09.20 – 09.40
Yeast researches need well-defined orthology dataset
Mike Cherry
(Stanford University USA)

09.40 – 10.10
Erik Sonnhammer
(Stockholm University, Sweden)

10.10 – 10.40
Efficient Bayesian Reconstruction and Reconciliation of Thousands of Gene Family Phylogenies Across Multiple Complete Genomes
Matt Rasmussen/Manolis Kellis
(MIT, USA)

11.10 – 11.40 
The Gene Ontology's Reference Genome Project: 
a Unified Framework for Functional Annotation across Species
Pascale Gaudet
(Northwestern University, USA)

11.40 – 12.10
PAINT: The GO Workbench for Protein Family Annotation
Suzanna Lewis, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA

12.10 – 12.40
Orthologs, Paralogs, and Functional Annotations Using The Gene Ontology
Judy Blake
(The Jackson Lab, USA)

12.40 – 13.10
ProGMap: an integrated annotation resource for protein orthology
Jack Leunissen/Sandor Pongor
(Wageningen University, Netherlands)


13.40 – 14.00
HCOP: A one stop orthology shop
Michael Lush
(HGNC, UK)

14.00 – 14.20
MBGD and RECOG: integrated platform for comparative genomics based on large-scale ortholog grouping
Ikuo Uchiyama
(National Institute for Basic Biology,  Japan)

14.20 – 14.40
OMA -- Orthology Inference Among 830 Complete Genomes
Christophe Dessimoz
(ETH Zurich, Switzerland)


16.00 – 16.30
Phylogenetic and Functional Assessment of Orthologs Inference Projects and Methods
Adrian Altenhoff
(ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

16.30 – 16.50
How Evolutionary Analyses Impacts on New Medicines
Julie Huxley-Jones, 
(GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals, UK)

16.50 – 17.10
Ohnologs gone missing: The problem of orthology assignmente after whole genome duplication
John Postlethwait, 
(University of Oregon, USA)

17.10 – 17.30
eggNOG v2.0: evolutionary genealogy of genes Non-supervised Orthologous Groups
Jean Muller, 
(EMBL, Germany)

17.30 – 18.00
OrthoMCL: Robust Automated Multi-Species Ortholog Identification
David Roos
(University of Pennsylvania, USA)

==== Sun 5 July ====

09.00 – 09.30
Sequencing, Sequencing and Sequencing
Jun Wang
(Beijing Genomics Institute-Shenzhen, China)
Incorporating Species Phylogeny in the Reconstruction of Gene Trees
Heng Li
(Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute UK)

09.30 – 09.50
Conservation and Consequences of Alternative Splicing in Human and Mouse
Jennifer Harrow, 
(Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK)

09.50 – 10.20
UniProtKB: Both a User of and a Hub for Phylogenomic Information
Brigitte Boeckmann
(Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland)


10.50 – 11.10
Identifying the Orthologs of Pig Genes
Alan Archibald
(University of Edinburgh, UK)