August 22

16:00 – 17:00	REGISTRATION
17:00 – 17:15	WELCOME MESSAGE Pedro Zapata, Mayor of Puerto Baquerizo Moreno
17:15-17:45	OPENING REMARKS Carlos Montufar, President of Universidad San Francisco de Quito	Inauguration Chairperson: Carlos Montufar, Ecuador
17:45-18:45	Carlos Valle, Ecuador Science and conservation in the Galapagos Islands
19:00	COCKTAIL (GAIAS)

August 23

9:00-09:45	Jeffrey Bada, USA Darwin's legacy and the origin of life	Session I: Origins of life and prokaryotic evolution Chairperson: Antonio Lazcano
09:45-10:30	Ada Yonath, Israel The evolving ribosome
10:30-11:15	Andres Moya, Spain Symbiosis: learning how to live together
11:15-11:35	BREAK
11:35-12:20	Edward J Feil, England A synthesis of ecological and genomic islands in bacterial evolution
12:20-13:05	Roberto Kolter, USA The ecology and evolution of bacterial Interspecies Interactions
13:05-15:00	LUNCH
15:00-15:45	Shuhai Xiao, USA Written in stone: The fossil record of early eukaryotes	Session II: Eukaryotic diversity   Chairperson: Micah Dunthorn, USA
15:45-16:30	Cameron Currie, USA Evolutionary innovation through symbiosis: exploring ancient agriculture in insects
16:30-16:50	BREAK
16:50-17:35	Billie J. Swalla, USA. Chordate origins and evolution
17:35-18:05	SUBMITTED TALKS Why is natural selection hard to beat and when do you need to beat it?: John R. Roth and Dan I. Andersson
	Evolution in Dictyostelia, unique eukaryotic group: Maria Romeralo and Sandra Baldauf
18:05-18:20	Fermentative digestion in herbivorous lizards: bacterial population analysis in the intestinal tract of free-living marine iguanas (Amblyrynchus cristatus) on the Galapagos archipelago. Roderick Mackie, David Nelson, Emily Wheeler, Martin Wikelski, Isaac Cann.

August 24

09:00-9:45	Lucia Lohmann, Brazil Untangling diversity patterns of Neotropical lianas: an integrative approach	Session I: Evolution of Plants and Animals   Chairperson: Carlos Valle, Ecuador
09:45-10:30	Sandra Baldauf, Sweden The protistan origins of animals and fungi
10:30-10:50	BREAK
10:50-11:35	Leticia Avilés, Canada The evolution of inbred social systems: causes and consequences
11:35-12:05	SUBMITTED TALKS The evolution of sexual size dimorphism in the flightless Galapagos cormorant: Carlos Valle
	Cooperation and prey capture efficiency in two sympatric social spiders: Jennifer Guevara, Leticia Aviles
12:05-14:00	LUNCH
14:00-14:30	Antonio Lazcano, Mexico The spread of creationism and intelligent design in the Americas	Session II: Confronting Creationism and Intelligent Design   Chairperson: Juli Pereto, Spain
	Juli Pereto, Spain Not even wrong: ID as a pseudoscience dressed with bad biochemistry
14:30-14:45	SUBMITTED TALK Creationism and intelligent design: disturbing reality in Brazilian education:  Heslley Machado Silva, Ana Luiza Santos Lino, Isabelle Gonçalves de Oliveira Prado
14:45-15:10	GENERAL DISCUSSION
15:10-15:30	BREAK
15:30-16:30	POSTER SESSION Paleontology: Study of teaching and learning materials used in biology in public schools for high school Itaúna-Brazil: Daniel Antunes Campos Ferreira, Diego de Mello Elias
	Oropharinx microbiota diversity in sick and healthy humans: Paul Cardenas, Philip Cooper, Markus Hilty, Miriam F. Moffatt, William O.C. Cookson
	Protein simple sequences in early life. Arturo Becerra, Luis Delaye, Antonio Lazcano
	Taxonomy, biogeography, and conservation of glassfrogs (Amphibia: Anura: Centrolenidae):  Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia.
	Analysis of syntenic gene substitution in Rhizobia species. Rafael Díaz, M. del Carmen Vargas, Lourdes Girard,  Jaime Mora
	Analyses of methodologies employed for the reconstruction of the gene complement of the last common ancestor: Sara E. Islas, Arturo Becerra, Luis Delaye, Antonio Lazcano.
	Are biologists really familiar with the speciation process? the need to improve the learning of evolutionary mechanisms: Ulises Iturbe, Ricardo León, Antonio Quintero
	Evolution of metabolic complementation in aphid endosymbionts: a genomic approach: Amparo Latorre, María José Gosalbes, Araceli Lamelas, Andrés Moya, Juli Peretó
	Gene flow evaluation in Polylepis incana in the eastern and western cordilleras of the Ecuadorian Andes: Ana María Troya-Zuleta, Alexandra Narváez-Trujillo
	Environmental bacteria from pristine areas are capable of transferring antibiotic resistance genes to Escherichia coli: Patricio Valencia,  Verónica Barragán, Gabriel Trueba
	Evidence of cryptic speciation in Lutzomyia geniculata, (Diptera:Psychodidae) from the Ecuadorian Amazon basin. Sonia Zapata, Renato León, Rommy Terán, Franςois Le Pont, Micah Dunthorn, Jérôme Depaquit.
	The role of internal duplication in early evolution of proteins. Ricardo Hernández-Morales, Arturo Becerra, Luis Delaye, Renato Fani, Sara Islas, Lorenzo Segovia, Antonio Lazcano
16:30-18:00	First meeting of the Sociedad Iberoamericana de Biología Evolutiva

August 25

FIELD TRIP DAY

August 26

09:00- 9:45	Evgeni Sokurenko, USA Source/Sink dynamics of short-term evolution of virulence.	Session I: Evolution of the Parasitic Lifestyle and Emerging Diseases Chairperson: Gabriel Trueba, Ecuador
09:45-10:30	Paul Sharp, Scotland The origins and evolution of AIDS viruses
10:30-10:50	BREAK
10:50-11:05	SUBMITTED TALK Experimental evolution of viruses: Rafael Sanjuán
11:05-11:50	Andrew A. Cunningham, England The emergence of disease threats to biodiversity through the breaching of evolutionary boundaries	Session II: Evolution and Conservation Chairperson: Stella de la Torre, Ecuador
12:00-14:00	LUNCH
14:00-14:45	Margaret  Schoeninger, USA The dietary origin(s) of the human lineage	Session III: Evolution and human affairs Chairperson: Diego Quiroga, Ecuador
14:45-15:30	Jaume Bertranpetit, Spain Natural selection on humans in the XXI Century: new views on Darwin’s basic ideas
15:30-15:45	SUBMITTED TALK What can new world monkeys tell us about the evolution of primate vocal communication? Stella de la Torre, Charles T. Snowdon
19:00-23:00	COCKTAIL