08:45-09:00 - Introduction by Conference Organizers (Marco Del Giudice, Adam Hunt)
09:00-09:45 - Matthew C. Keller (University of Colorado, Boulder)
: What modern genomic findings tell us about the evolution of genetic variation underlying psychiatric disorders
09:45-10:05 - Anaïs Thijssen (Amsterdam UMC)
: The Darwinian paradox of psychiatric disorders: Combining multiple evolutionary theories using genetic analyses
10:05-10:50 - Renato Polimanti (Yale University)
: Purifying selection and diagnostic heterogeneity contribute to the polygenic architecture of psychiatric disorders
10:50-11:20 - Coffee break
11:20-12:05 - Riadh Abed (Ministry of Justice, UK)
: The principles and goals of evolutionary psychiatry
12:05-12:25 - Giuseppe Pierpaolo Merola (King’s College London; University of Florence)
: Evolutionary insights into anorexia nervosa through comparative genomic analysis
12:30-14:00 - Lunch break
Session #2
14:00-14:45 - Varun Warrier (University of Cambridge)
: Our evolving understanding of neurodevelopment and its implications for some evolutionary theories
14:45-15:05 - Bence Farkas (École Normale Supérieure, INSERM)
: Understanding individual differences in reinforcement learning as a resource-efficient adaptation to task and early life uncertainty
15:05-15:50 - Marco Del Giudice (University of Trieste)
: Functional models of psychopathology: the interface of evolution and genetics
15:50-16:20 - Coffee break
Session #3: Roundtable [chair: Adam Hunt]
16:20-17:30 - Roundtable and discussion with the invited speakers (Keller, Polimanti, Warrier, Del Giudice)
Day 3: Wednesday July 3rd
Morning Half-day trip to a local sightseeing destination (TBD)
Session #4
14:00-14:45 - Adam D. Hunt (University of Zurich)
: Solutions for psychiatry from evolution and genetics
14:45-15:05 - Camille Williams (University of Texas at Austin)
: Testing for polygenic adaptation in externalizing behaviors and disorders using cross-ancestry and within-sibling GWAS results
15:05-15:50 - Luke M. Evans (Washington State University, Vancouver)
: Incorporating complexity into genetic models to examine models of selection
15:50-16:20 - Coffee break
16:20-16:40 - Gurjot Brar (University of Limerick)
: Evolutionary psychiatry - implications for medical education and clinical practice
Session #5: Roundtable [chair: Marco Del Giudice]
16:40-17:30 - Roundtable and discussion with the invited speakers (Penke, Evans)
Poster Session
19:30-21:30 - Poster session
Day 4: Thursday July 4th
Session #6
08:40-09:00 - Emanuele Esposito (École Normale Supérieure, Paris)
: How an evolutionary-genomic approach can help to understand neurodiversity: ADHD as a case study
09:15-09:35 - Axel Baptista (École Normale Supérieure, INSERM)
: An evolutionary-developmental account of sex differences and heterogeneity in Borderline Personality Disorder
09:35-10:20 - Hyejung Won (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
: Functional characterization of psychiatric disorder risk variants
10:20-10:40 - Emma C. Johnson (Washington University)
: Associations between genome-wide autozygosity and complex traits in two ancestrally diverse US cohorts
10:40-11:10 - Coffee break
11:10-11:55 - Edward H. Hagen (Washington State University)
: Multiple genetic pathways to adversity and depression
12:00-14:00 - Lunch break
Session #7
14:00-14:45 - Bernard Crespi (Simon Fraser University)
: What can genes really tell us about brains and psychiatric conditions? Towards consilience of top-down and bottom-up approaches
14:45-15:30 - Abdel Abdellaoui (Amsterdam University)
: Socio-economic status: A social construct with genetic consequences
15:30-16:00 - Coffee break
16:00-17:10 - Roundtable and discussion with the invited speakers (Hunt, Won, Hagen, Crespi, Abdellaoui) [chair: Marco Del Giudice]
17:10-17:30 - Wrap-up and final communications
Day 5: Friday July 5th
To be scheduled on-site Departure from Erice with shuttle bus