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

Microbial community ecology: bridging theory and observations

from Tuesday, 11 July 2023 (16:00) to Friday, 14 July 2023 (23:59)
MPI Plön (Lecture hall - interim building)

: Sessions

: Talks

: Breaks

11 Jul 2023

12 Jul 2023

13 Jul 2023

14 Jul 2023

08:45	--- Registration (for late arrivals) ---
09:00	Short introductions (until 09:45) (Lecture hall - interim building)
09:45	Talks & discussion - Emil Mallmin (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology) (until 10:45) (Lecture hall - interim building)
09:45	From Patterns to Mechanism to Prediction in Microbiome Science - James ODwyer (University of Illinois) (Lecture hall - interim building)
10:45	--- Coffee break ---
11:00	Talks & discussion - Jules Fraboul (LPENS) (until 12:00) (Lecture hall - interim building)
11:00	Dynamics of high-diversity spatially extended heterogeneous ecosystems - Giulio Biroli (ENS Paris) (Lecture hall - interim building)

09:00	Talks & discussion - Giulia Garcia Lorenzana (LPENS (ENS), MSC (Universite Paris Cite)) (until 10:30) (Lecture hall - interim building)
09:00	Generalized Random Lotka-Volterra model: number of equilibria, glassiness, and beyond - Ada Altieri (Université Paris Cité) (Lecture hall - interim building)
09:30	Breakdown of Random-Matrix Universality in Persistent Lotka-Volterra Communities - Joseph Baron (LPENS) (Lecture hall - interim building)
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) (Lecture hall - interim building)
10:30	--- Coffee break ---
11:00	Talks & discussion - Giulia Garcia Lorenzana (LPENS (ENS), MSC (Universite Paris Cite)) (until 12:00) (Lecture hall - interim building)
11:00	Toward predicting and controlling microbial community dynamics - Daniel Amor (École Normale Supérieure) (Lecture hall - interim building)

09:00	Talks & discussion - Emil Mallmin (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology) (until 10:30) (Lecture hall - interim building)
09:00	Bacteria-bacteria interactions between gut-associated Bacteroides strains - Hanna Fokt (Lecture hall - interim building)
09:55	Mixed strain pathogen populations accelerate the evolution of antibiotic resistance in patients - Rachel Wheatley (Lecture hall - interim building)
10:30	--- Coffee break ---
11:00	Talks & discussion - Emil Mallmin (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology) (until 12:00) (Lecture hall - interim building)
11:00	Empirical modeling of ecological dynamics - Stephan Munch (UC Santa Cruz) (Lecture hall - interim building)

18:00	--- Registration & mingle ---
19:00	--- Dinner ---
20:00	Opening statement (until 20:20) (Lecture hall - interim building)
20:20	Short introductions (until 21:50) (Lecture hall - interim building)

12:00	--- Lunch ---
13:00	Talks & discussion - Martina Dal Bello (MIT) (until 14:30) (Lecture hall - interim building)
13:00	What I learned from kefir microbiome - Kiran Raosaheb Patil (Lecture hall - interim building)
13:55	Describing microbial communities using models of cellular resource allocation - Ralf Steuer (Intitute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt-University of Berlin) (Lecture hall - interim building)
14:30	--- Coffee break ---
14:45	Talks & discussion - Giulia Garcia Lorenzana (LPENS (ENS), MSC (Universite Paris Cite)) (until 15:45) (Lecture hall - interim building)
14:45	KillerProfiles – Unraveling the effects of deeply divergent predators on the evolution of microbial communities - Jos Kramer (Department of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich) (Lecture hall - interim building)
15:15	The implicit Assumptions of Functional Responses - Gian Marco Palamara (University of Bern) (Lecture hall - interim building)
15:45	--- Optional: Parnass watch tower (2.5km) ---
15:45	--- Optional: Walk around lake Schöhsee (5km) ---
15:45	--- Optional: swim in the lake ---
17:00	Poster session (until 19:00) (Lecture hall - interim building)
17:00	Immunity and competition between bacteria in the gut - Aurore Woller (Lecture hall - interim building)
17:20	Chaos and noise: disorder in population dynamics - Alejandra Ramirez (Lecture hall - interim building)
17:40	Genome-assisted characterization and protective role of synthetic microbial community in Arabidopsis thaliana phyllosphere - Vasvi Chaudhry (University of Tübingen) (Lecture hall - interim building)
18:00	Changes in the root microbiota during the colonization of a pioneer plant after Tropical Glacier retreat - Gisela Rodriguez (Microbial Population Biology Department) (Lecture hall - interim building)
18:20	Are diverse soil bacterial communities more resistant to extreme temperature events? - Ana-Hermina Ghenu (Institute for Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern) (Lecture hall - interim building)
18:40	Defining features of distributed metabolism in microbial communities - Alyssa Henderson (Lecture hall - interim building)
18:40	Interplay of structure and randomness in complex ecological communities - Juan Giral (Lecture hall - interim building) Poster.pdf
18:40	Multilevel selection models for microbiomes - Amanda de Azevedo Lopes (MPI for Evolutionary Biology) (Lecture hall - interim building)
18:40	Multistability of the gut microbiome in response to drug perturbation - Kate Williamson (MRC Toxicology Unit) (Lecture hall - interim building)
18:40	Parvilucifera s. and microorganism billiards: breaking free through narrow escapes - medea zanoli (Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEDEA) , Esporles, Spain) (Lecture hall - interim building)
19:00	--- Dinner (institute) ---
20:00	Talks & discussion - Silvia De Monte (CNRS, IBENS, Paris & MPI Evolutionary Biology, Plon) (until 21:00) (Lecture hall - interim building)
20:00	Statistical analysis of ocean microbes - Sangwon Hyun (University of California, Santa Cruz) (Lecture hall - interim building)
21:00	--- Drinks & mingle (optional) ---

12:00	--- Lunch ---
13:00	Talks & discussion - Jules Fraboul (LPENS) (until 14:00) (Lecture hall - interim building)
13:00	Single Biotic Interactions Shape Composition of Microbial Communities but Historical Contingency and Evolution Determine Functionality - Thomas Scheuerl (Lecture hall - interim building)
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)) (Lecture hall - interim building)
14:00	--- Coffee break ---
14:10	Talks & discussion - Silvia De Monte (CNRS, IBENS, Paris & MPI Evolutionary Biology, Plon) (until 15:10) (Lecture hall - interim building)
14:10	Artificial evolution of artificial plant- and algae-associated bacterial communities - Ruben Garrido-Oter (Max Planck Institute / Earlham Institute) (Lecture hall - interim building)
15:10	--- Coffee break ---
15:30	Talks & discussion - Martina Dal Bello (MIT) (until 19:00) (Lecture hall - interim building)
15:30	Exploring the effects of metabolic mutations on cell-cell interactions in spatially structured synthetic microbial communities - Divvya Ramesh (ETH Zürich and Eawag) (Lecture hall - interim building)
16:00	Sugar-acid dichotomy in the carbon catabolic preferences of heterotrophic bacteria - Matti Gralka (VU Amsterdam) (Lecture hall - interim building)
19:00	--- Dinner (at restaurant) ---
20:00	QA session (until 21:00) (Lecture hall - interim building)
21:00	--- Return walk ---

12:00	--- Lunch ---
13:00	Talks & discussion - Martina Dal Bello (MIT) (until 14:30) (Lecture hall - interim building)
13:00	On the structuring of bacterioplankton seasonal succession and interannual variation - Jarone Pinhassi (Linnaeus University) (Lecture hall - interim building)
13:55	Nitrogen fixation increases with diazotroph richness in the global ocean - Dominic Eriksson (ETH Zürich) (Lecture hall - interim building)
14:30	--- Coffee break ---
14:45	Talks & discussion - Silvia De Monte (CNRS, IBENS, Paris & MPI Evolutionary Biology, Plon) (until 15:45) (Lecture hall - interim building)
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 ) (Lecture hall - interim building)
15:45	Closing remarks (until 16:15) (Lecture hall - interim building)
16:15	--- End of workshop - Leisure time ---
18:00	--- Barbeque (optional) ---