Meetings in Microbial Ecology & Evolution: Evolutionary Dynamics & Processes

from Monday, 30 May 2022 (14:00) to Friday, 3 June 2022 (19:45)


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
30 May 2022
31 May 2022
1 Jun 2022
2 Jun 2022
3 Jun 2022
AM
08:30 --- Morning Hangout ---
09:00 Fitness effects of horizontal gene transfer - Berenike Maier (University of Cologne )   ()
09:45 Ancient Darwinian replicators nested within eubacterial genomes - Frederic Bertels (MPI for Evolutionary Biology)   ()
10:15 --- Coffee Break ---
10:45 Mapping out the genomic landscape of antimicrobial resistance in natural settings - Eitan Yaffe (Stanford University )   ()
11:05 Constraints and patterns of multitrait evolution (and why this matters for projecting global marine primary production) - Sinead Collins (University of Edinburgh)   ()
08:30 --- Morning Hangout ---
09:00 Diversity beyond conflict: conceptual models for the eco-evolution of microbial collectives. - Silvia De Monte (MPI for Evolutionary Biology)   ()
10:00 Why do some bacterial genes reside on the chromosome and others on plasmids? - Sonja Lehtinen (ETH Zurich )   ()
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 Resource availability influences multicellular dispersal and selects for regulated life cycles - Julien Barrere (Harvard University )   ()
11:20 Exploring multicellularity via experimental evolution - William Ratcliff (Georgia Tech)   ()
08:30 --- Morning Hangout ---
09:00 Evolutionary landscapes shape and expand antiviral protein specificities - Host-virus interactions - Harmit Malik (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and HHMI )   ()
10:00 The contribution of large-scale duplications to adaptive evolution of bacterial populations - Jenna Gallie (MPI for Evolutionary Biology)   ()
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 Antibody binding affinity landscapes and evolutionary constraints on affinity maturation - Michael Desai (Harvard University )   ()
11:45 Mutualism-enhancing mutations dominate early adaptation in a microbial community - Sandeep Venkataram (University of California, San Diego )   ()
08:30 --- Morning Hangout ---
09:00 Genome-wide screens to map fitness landscapes in bacteria - Vivek Mutalik   ()
09:45 Hot or Not: The Evolutionary and Ecological Consequences of Having a Mutational Hotspot or Not in an Evolving Gene Regulatory Network - Louise Flanagan (University of Bath )   ()
10:15 --- Coffee Break ---
10:45 Quantifying and Modeling Eco-Evolutionary Feedbacks Across Space and Time - Oskar Hallatschek (Berkeley, Uni Leipzig )   ()
11:30 A reverse ecology framework for microbial populations in the human gut - Xiaoqian Yu (University of Vienna )   ()
11:50 Evolutionary predictability of biofilm formation in diverse species of Pseudomonas - Jennifer Pentz (Umea University )   ()
PM
17:00 Welcome   ()
18:30 --- Dinner ---
19:45 Formal Introduction - Alita Burmeister Loukas Theodosiou (MPI for Evolutionary Biology) Tanush Jagdish Fatima Hussain Andrew Farr (MPI for Evolutionary Biology) Clara Moreno-Fenoll   ()
20:00 Genes on the move: The evolution of mobile elements in microbial communities - Ben Kerr (University of Washington)   ()
21:00 --- Discussion & Drinks ---
12:00 --- Light Lunch ---
13:00 --- Discussion and Hikes ---
14:30 Deterministic asymmetry and differential survival within bacterial populations - Audrey Menegaz Proenca (Freie Universität Berlin )   ()
14:50 Quantifying the Adaptive Potential of a Nascent Bacterial Community - Joao Ascensao (University of California, Berkeley )   ()
15:15 --- Coffee Break ---
15:30
Science Cafe (until 16:30) ()
16:30
Poster Session (until 18:15) ()
18:15 --- Dinner ---
19:15 General Discussion   ()
12:05 Public good exploitation in natural bacterioplankton communities - Shaul Pollak (MIT )   ()
12:30 --- Lunch Break ---
13:30 Individual Discussions   ()
15:00 --- Boat Trip ---
17:00 --- Coffee Break ---
17:30
Science Cafe (until 18:30) ()
18:30 --- Dinner at Restaurant ---
19:30 General Discussion   ()
12:05 On the evolvability of microbial metabolic hierarchies in an empirical genotype-phenotype map - Sotaro Takano (National Institute for Materials Science(NIMS, Japan) )   ()
12:30 --- Lunch Break ---
13:30
Poster Session (until 15:30) ()
15:30 Keynote - Dmitri Petrov (Stanford University)   ()
16:15 Understanding the likelihood of evolutionary tradeoffs - Kara Schmidlin (Arizona State University )   ()
16:35 --- Coffee Break ---
16:50
Science Cafe (until 17:50) ()
18:00 --- Dinner at Restaurant ---
19:00 General Discussion   ()
12:15 --- Lunch Break ---
13:15 Stochasticity and determinism in the evolution of beta-lactam resistance - Arjan de Visser (Wageningen University & Research )   ()
14:00 Together we reach the top: How ecological interactions can make fitness landscapes more connected - Meike Wortel (University of Amsterdam )   ()
14:30 --- Coffee Break ---
14:45
Science Cafe (until 17:00) ()
17:45 --- Good-Bye BBQ ---