| 8:30am | Breakfast |
| 9:15am | Opening remarks |
| 9:30am | Jeff Rogers (Baylor College of Medicine) |
| "Papio baboons: a present-day model for ancient hominin genetic introgression" |
| 9:50am | Becky Zufall (University of Houston) |
| "Tetrahymena genome architecture allows success without sex" |
| 10:10am | Kim Worley (Baylor College of Medicine) |
| "Sheep Reference Genome Sequence Updates: Texel Improvements and Rambouillet Progress" |
| 10:30am | Coffee |
| 11:00am | Rich Meisel (University of Houston) |
| "High rate of sex chromosome turnover in house flies and their close relatives" |
| 11:15am | Xian Fan (Rice University & MD Anderson) |
| "An Integrative Approach Utilizing Illumina and Pacbio Sequences for Powerful Structural Variant Detection" |
| 11:30am | James Cai (Texas A&M) |
| "Epistasis and destabilizing mutations shape gene expression variability via distinct modes of action" |
| 11:45am | Susan Rosenberg (Baylor College of Medicine) |
| "How bacteria and cancer cells regulate mutagenesis and their ability to evolve" |
| 12:15pm | Lunch & Posters |
| 2:00pm | Alan Pepper (Texas A&M) |
| "Caulanthus amplexicaulis: An emerging genetic model for the study of adaptation to extreme terrestrial environments" |
| 2:30pm | Ata Kalirad (University of Houston) |
| "The Melting Snowball: A Test of the Snowball Theory Using RNA" |
| 2:45pm | Katherine Barthel (UT Tyler) |
| "Taxonomic Clarification of Rose Mallow Using Evolutionary Genetics and Ecological Niche Modeling" |
| 3:00pm | Anke Konrad (Texas A&M) |
| "Mitochondrial Variation in Light of Heteroplasmy and Differing Population Size" |
| 3:15pm | Coffee |
| 3:45pm | Howard Ochman (UT Austin) |
| "The evolution of genome size and complexity" |
| 4:45pm | Closing remarks & Awards |
| 5:00pm | Happy hour |
