(3/3) Despite being held in Switzerland, registration fees remain within EMBO standards. Registration includes lunches, dinners, and two coffee breaks per day, making it quite affordable. Travel grants and registration fee waivers still available.

(2/3) Conference organized in five thematic sessions: (1) Repeats and transposable elements; (2) GRC, PSR, and other B chromosomes; (3) Subverting meiosis; (4) Maternal and paternal genome elimination; (5) Endosymbionts enforcing their own transmission.

Organisers
- @lucasoldini.bsky.social | University of Lausanne
- Tanja Schwander | University of Lausanne

Invited Speaker
- @levine-lab.bsky.social | @upenn.edu

(9/9) We welcome contributed talks and posters for all sessions, and strongly encourage early-career researchers to submit their best abstracts (until 15 December 2025).

(8/9) Finally, our last session will focus on Endosymbionts Enforcing their Own Transmission with Amelia Lindsey, Daisuke Kageyama (@daisukekageyama.bsky.social), and Nicky Wybouw as invited speakers.

(7/9) Our fourth session, Maternal and Paternal Genome Elimination, will address cases where whole sets of chromosomes behave selfishly with Andre Pires da Silva, Karine van Doninck, and Marie Delattre as invited speakers.

(6/9) Our third session, Subverting Meiosis, will focus more generally on how selfish elements and strategies distort Mendelian inheritance with Alejandro Burga (@arburga.bsky.social), Benjamin Loppin, Lila Fishman, Reka Kelemen, SaraH Zanders, and Steve Perlman as invited speakers.

(5/9) Extending to larger genetic elements, our second session will focus on PSR, GRC, and other B chromosomes with Andreas Houben, Christina Hodson (@chodson.bsky.social), and Radka Reifovà as invited speakers.

(4/9) Amanda Larracuente will deliver the keynote lecture after our first session, sharing recent advances from her research on selfish genetic elements.

(3/9) Our first session, on Repeats and Transposable Elements will feature Kevin Wei (@kweiosis.bsky.social) and Robert Kofler (@rokofler.bsky.social) as invited speakers.

(2/9) This will be the first event bringing together all types of selfish elements and strategies — from simpler drive systems to cases where entire chromosomal sets or organelles enhance their own transmission.

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