Name: Microbial community ecology: bridging theory and observations
Start: 2023-07-11T16:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-07-14T23:59:00+02:00
Location: MPI Plön

Monday 10 July 2023
Tuesday 11 July 2023

18:00 Registration & mingle
Registration & mingle
18:00 - 19:00
Room: Lecture hall - interim building

19:00 Dinner
Dinner
19:00 - 20:00
Room: Lecture hall - interim building

20:00

20:00 - 20:20
Room: Lecture hall - interim building

20:20 1/2
1/2
20:20 - 21:50
Room: Lecture hall - interim building
Wednesday 12 July 2023

08:45 Registration (for late arrivals)
Registration (for late arrivals)
08:45 - 09:00
Room: Lecture hall - interim building

09:00 2/2
2/2
09:00 - 09:45
Room: Lecture hall - interim building
09:45
09:45 - 10:45
Room: Lecture hall - interim building
Contributions

09:45 From Patterns to Mechanism to Prediction in Microbiome Science - James ODwyer (University of Illinois)
10:45 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:45 - 11:00
Room: Lecture hall - interim building
11:00
11:00 - 12:00
Room: Lecture hall - interim building
Contributions

11:00 Dynamics of high-diversity spatially extended heterogeneous ecosystems - Giulio Biroli (ENS Paris)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:00
Room: Lecture hall - interim building
13:00
13:00 - 14:30
Room: Lecture hall - interim building
Contributions

13:00 What I learned from kefir microbiome - Kiran Raosaheb Patil

13:55 Describing microbial communities using models of cellular resource allocation - Ralf Steuer (Intitute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt-University of Berlin)
14:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
14:30 - 14:45
Room: Lecture hall - interim building
14:45
14:45 - 15:45
Room: Lecture hall - interim building
Contributions

14:45 KillerProfiles – Unraveling the effects of deeply divergent predators on the evolution of microbial communities - Jos Kramer (Department of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich)

15:15 The implicit Assumptions of Functional Responses - Gian Marco Palamara (University of Bern)
15:45 Optional: Parnass watch tower (2.5km)
Optional: Parnass watch tower (2.5km)
15:45 - 17:00

Optional: Walk around lake Schöhsee (5km)
Optional: Walk around lake Schöhsee (5km)
15:45 - 17:00
Room: Lecture hall - interim building

Optional: swim in the lake
Optional: swim in the lake
15:45 - 17:00
17:00
17:00 - 19:00
Room: Lecture hall - interim building
Contributions

17:00 Immunity and competition between bacteria in the gut - Aurore Woller

17:20 Chaos and noise: disorder in population dynamics - Alejandra Ramirez

17:40 Genome-assisted characterization and protective role of synthetic microbial community in Arabidopsis thaliana phyllosphere - Vasvi Chaudhry (University of Tübingen)

18:00 Changes in the root microbiota during the colonization of a pioneer plant after Tropical Glacier retreat - Gisela Rodriguez (Microbial Population Biology Department)

18:20 Are diverse soil bacterial communities more resistant to extreme temperature events? - Ana-Hermina Ghenu (Institute for Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern)

18:40 Interplay of structure and randomness in complex ecological communities - Juan Giral

18:40 Multistability of the gut microbiome in response to drug perturbation - Kate Williamson (MRC Toxicology Unit)

18:40 Multilevel selection models for microbiomes - Amanda de Azevedo Lopes (MPI for Evolutionary Biology)

18:40 Defining features of distributed metabolism in microbial communities - Alyssa Henderson

18:40 Parvilucifera s. and microorganism billiards: breaking free through narrow escapes - medea zanoli (Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEDEA) , Esporles, Spain)
19:00 Dinner (institute)
Dinner (institute)
19:00 - 20:00
Room: Lecture hall - interim building
20:00
20:00 - 21:00
Room: Lecture hall - interim building
Contributions

20:00 Statistical analysis of ocean microbes - Sangwon Hyun (University of California, Santa Cruz)
21:00 Drinks & mingle (optional)
Drinks & mingle (optional)
21:00 - 22:30
Room: Lecture hall - interim building
Thursday 13 July 2023
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Lecture hall - interim building
Contributions

09:00 Generalized Random Lotka-Volterra model: number of equilibria, glassiness, and beyond - Ada Altieri (Université Paris Cité)

09:30 Breakdown of Random-Matrix Universality in Persistent Lotka-Volterra Communities - Joseph Baron (LPENS)

10:00 Local sign stability and its implications for spectra of sparse random graphs and stability of ecosystems - Pietro Valigi (Università di Roma La Sapienza)
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Lecture hall - interim building
11:00
11:00 - 12:00
Room: Lecture hall - interim building
Contributions

11:00 Toward predicting and controlling microbial community dynamics - Daniel Amor (École Normale Supérieure)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:00
Room: Lecture hall - interim building
13:00
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Lecture hall - interim building
Contributions

13:00 Single Biotic Interactions Shape Composition of Microbial Communities but Historical Contingency and Evolution Determine Functionality - Thomas Scheuerl

13:30 Improving Collective Function in Microbial Communities through Bias-Driven Selection - Hyejin Park (Department of Physics, Inha University; Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics (APCTP))
14:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
14:00 - 14:10
Room: Lecture hall - interim building
14:10
14:10 - 15:10
Room: Lecture hall - interim building
Contributions

14:10 Artificial evolution of artificial plant- and algae-associated bacterial communities - Ruben Garrido-Oter (Max Planck Institute / Earlham Institute)
15:10 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:10 - 15:30
Room: Lecture hall - interim building
15:30
15:30 - 19:00
Room: Lecture hall - interim building
Contributions

15:30 Exploring the effects of metabolic mutations on cell-cell interactions in spatially structured synthetic microbial communities - Divvya Ramesh (ETH Zürich and Eawag)

16:00 Sugar-acid dichotomy in the carbon catabolic preferences of heterotrophic bacteria - Matti Gralka (VU Amsterdam)
19:00 Dinner (at restaurant)
Dinner (at restaurant)
19:00 - 20:00

20:00

20:00 - 21:00
Room: Lecture hall - interim building

21:00 Return walk
Return walk
21:00 - 22:00
Room: Lecture hall - interim building
Friday 14 July 2023
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Lecture hall - interim building
Contributions

09:00 Bacteria-bacteria interactions between gut-associated Bacteroides strains - Hanna Fokt

09:55 Mixed strain pathogen populations accelerate the evolution of antibiotic resistance in patients - Rachel Wheatley
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Lecture hall - interim building
11:00
11:00 - 12:00
Room: Lecture hall - interim building
Contributions

11:00 Empirical modeling of ecological dynamics - Stephan Munch (UC Santa Cruz)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:00
Room: Lecture hall - interim building
13:00
13:00 - 14:30
Room: Lecture hall - interim building
Contributions

13:00 On the structuring of bacterioplankton seasonal succession and interannual variation - Jarone Pinhassi (Linnaeus University)

13:55 Nitrogen fixation increases with diazotroph richness in the global ocean - Dominic Eriksson (ETH Zürich)
14:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
14:30 - 14:45
Room: Lecture hall - interim building
14:45
14:45 - 15:45
Room: Lecture hall - interim building
Contributions

14:45 Illuminating interactions between microbial cells in the wild - Alexandra Worden (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, DE; Ocean EcoSystems Biology Unit, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, DE; Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, USA )
15:45

15:45 - 16:15
Room: Lecture hall - interim building

16:15 End of workshop - Leisure time
End of workshop - Leisure time
16:15 - 18:00
Room: Lecture hall - interim building

18:00 Barbeque (optional)
Barbeque (optional)
18:00 - 23:59
Room: Lecture hall - interim building