Developments in Evolutionary Theory

17 Jun 2024, 09:00 → 19 Jun 2024, 22:00 Europe/Berlin

This meeting is planned to gather the people who have been part of the Evolutionary Theory Department since its start in 2014. Many of us have made a career after leaving this department, either in industry, academia or elsewhere. 

Thus, this meeting is open to presentations of all scientific directions that people took, since they are rooted in evolutionary theory. Moreover, many of us have left academia and pursued other, exciting careers. Those who are still in an academia are often asked for advice how to switch, but we are hardly in a position to judge the current working conditions outside academia. Therefore, we plan a panel discussion with those who have more recent experience in this. 

There is some funding for travel available, but it is highly appreciated if you find other means to finance a trip to Plön. Please let Arne and Ursula know by email if there are any special circumstances that we should consider. 

Monday 17 June

09:00 → 09:30 Check-In

09:30 → 09:45 Welcome - How the MPI has changed

Speaker: Arne Traulsen

09:45 → 10:45 Session: 1

09:45 Talk Benjamin Werner

Speaker: Benjamin Werner

10:15 Cooperative dilemmas with binary actions and multiple players

Speaker: Jorge Peña

10:45 → 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 → 12:15 Session: 2

11:15 Combining experiments and modelling to study microbial interactions and collective behaviour

Speaker: Xiang-Yi Li Richter

11:45 Long-term Evolutionary Dynamics on Graphs

Speaker: Nikhil Sharma

12:15 → 13:15 Lunch

13:15 → 14:45 Session: 3

13:15 Bringing theory and experiments one step closer with inference

Speaker: Saumil Shah

13:45 Construction and our plan to escape from the Pink Residence

Speaker: Arne Traulsen

14:00 Tour through new and old buildings for alumni (in 2 groups)

14:45 → 15:15 Coffee Break

15:15 → 16:45 Session: 4

15:15 Talk Michael Sieber

Speaker: Michael Sieber

15:45 Some plants are like bees, but fungi are different: models of self-incompatibility (and strong selection)

Speaker: Peter Czuppon

16:15 Is collective risk a good model for cell interactions during embryonic development?

Speaker: Maria Abou Chakra

16:45 → 18:00 Poster Session: 1

Gaurav Athreya, Frederic Bertels, Ian Dewan, Nikoleta Glynatsi, Gustav Lindwall, Emil Mallmin, Alejandra Ramirez, David Rogers, Mario Santer, Sedigheh Yagoobi, Qianci Yang

18:00 → 19:00 Finger Food Dinner

19:00 → 21:00 Poster Session: 1 continued

Gaurav Athreya, Frederic Bertels, Ian Dewan, Nikoleta Glynatsi, Gustav Lindwall, Emil Mallmin, Alejandra Ramirez, David Rogers, Mario Santer, Sedigheh Yagoobi, Qianci Yang

Tuesday 18 June

09:00 → 10:30 Session: 5

09:00 How does intermittent feeding shape the gut microbiome?

Speaker: Florence Bansept

09:30 Games between scientists and journals

Speaker: Julian Garcia

10:00 Insights into how bottlenecks shape antibiotic resistance evolution

Speaker: Ernesto Berríos-Caro

10:30 → 11:00 Break

11:00 → 12:30 Panel Discussion: Interdisciplinary collaborations

Chaitanya Gokhale, Weini Huang, Julian Garcia, Xiang-Yi Li Richter

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch Break

13:30 → 15:00 Session: 6

13:30 Talk Jenna Gallie

Speaker: Jenna Gallie

14:00 Submodular fitness landscapes

Speaker: Joachim Krug

15:00 → 15:30 Break

15:30 → 17:00 Session: 7

15:30 Modelling genetic alterations in cell populations

Speaker: Weini Huang

16:00 Stability and efficiency of cooperation in asymmetric social dilemmas

Speaker: Christian Hilbe

16:30 Juvenile mortality and sibling replacement: a kin selection approach

Speaker: Stefano Giaimo

17:00 → 18:00 Poster Session: 2

Gaurav Athreya, Frederic Bertels, Ian Dewan, Nikoleta Glynatsi, Gustav Lindwall, Emil Mallmin, Alejandra Ramirez, David Rogers, Mario Santer, Sedigheh Yagoobi, Qianci Yang

Wednesday 19 June

09:00 → 10:30 Session: 8

09:00 Multilevel selection models for microbiomes

Speaker: Amanda Azevedo

09:30 Ancestry and Admixture: inferring hybridisation histories

Speaker: Thijs Janzen

10:00 Evolutionary rescue in the fields: probability and waiting time for herbicide resistance

Speaker: Dana Lauenroth

10:30 → 10:45 Group picture

10:45 → 11:15 Break

11:15 → 12:45 Session: 9

11:15 Evolution of the hunting behavior of jumping spiders

Speaker: Dharanish Rajendra

11:45 Talk Roman

Speaker: Roman Zapién-Campos

12:15 Kindergarten Model: Approximating Time Delays in Evolutionary Games

Speaker: Malgorzata Fic

12:45 → 13:30 Lunch Break

13:30 → 14:00 Session: 10

13:30 Individuals and groups at the event horizon

Speaker: Chaitanya Gokhale

14:00 → 15:30 Panel Discussion 2: Careers beyond academia

Gökce Ayan, Benedikt Bauer, Laura Hindersin, Hanna Schenk, Moderation: Michael

15:30 → 15:50 Offical End and Farewell

Speaker: Arne Traulsen

18:00 → 22:00 Informal BBQ at Rathjensdorfer Weg 32