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KITP Program: The Ecology and Evolution of Microbial Communities
(Jul 19 - Aug 20, 2021)
Coordinators: Otto X. Cordero, Seppe Kuehn, Honour McCann, Pankaj Mehta, and Daniel Segré

Speakers: Please contact us about file upload for your slides.

Time Speaker Title
8/20, 11:15am QBio Students qBio takeover: What should ECOEVO focus on?[Video]
8/19, 3:00pm Josh Goldford
MIT
Reconstructing ancient metabolic networks[Video]
8/19, 1:00pm Ophelia Venturelli
Wisconsin
Building microbial communities to understand and design dynamics and functions[Video]
8/18, 3:00pm Wenying Shou
UCL
Eco-evolutionary dynamics during artificial selection of microbial communities[Video]
8/18, 1:00pm Stilianos Louca
Univ. of Oregon
The rates of global bacterial and archaeal dispersal[Video]
8/17, 3:00pm Alejandra Rodriguez Verdugo
UCI
Evolving interactions in synthetic communities[Video]
8/17, 2:00pm Jeroen Meijer
Utrecht University
A massive viral outbreak in (less than) a gram of compost[Video]
8/17, 1:00pm Paul Rainey
MPI-EB
The significance of group sex[Video]
8/16, 3:45pm Nick Noll
KITP
Computational techniques to analyze pangenome evolution[Embargoed]
8/16, 3:00pm Julia Schwartzman
MIT
Cellular division of labor in a marine bacterium[Video]
8/16, 1:00pm Joanne Emerson
UC Davis
Space (and time) and phages in soil[Video]
8/13, 3:00pm Honour McCann
MPI-EB
Emergence and evolution of agricultural pathogens[Video]
8/13, 1:00pm Tami Lieberman
MIT
Bacterial evolution and adaptation within human microbiomes at high resolution[Video]
8/12, 3:00pm Otto Cordero
MIT
The assembly of marine microbial communities, one droplet at a time[Video]
8/12, 1:00pm Daniel Segre
BU
On community metabolism, complex environments and electrons[Video][CC]
8/11, 1:00pm Martin Polz
Univ. of Vienna
Eco-evolutionary dynamics of phage-host interactions in the wild[Video][CC]
8/10, 3:00pm Akshit Goyal
MIT
Interactions between strains govern the eco-evolutionary dynamics of microbial communities[Video][CC][Transcript]
8/10, 1:00pm Alvaro Sanchez
Yale
Evolutionary engineering of microbial community functions[Video][CC][Transcript]
8/09, 3:00pm Shenshen Wang
UCLA
Flexible molecular recognition and eco-evolutionary feedback underlie virus-immunity coevolution[Video][CC][Transcript]
8/09, 1:00pm Alan Perelson
LANL
Within host modeling of SARS-CoV-2 infection[Slides][Video]
8/06, 3:00pm Martina Dal Bello
MIT
Microbial community ecology through a metabolic lens[Video][CC][Transcript]
8/06, 1:00pm Detlef Weigel
MPI-EB
How plant genetics taught me to love microbes[Slides][Video][CC][Transcript]
8/05, 3:00pm Alfred Spormann
Stanford
How Low Life Can Microbial Life Be[Video][CC]
8/05, 1:00pm Alexander Petroff
Clark Univ.
Motion of Multicellular Magnetotactic Bacteria[Video][CC][Transcript]
8/04, 3:00pm Sergei Maslov
Univ. of Illinois
Alternative stable states, regime shifts, and priority effects in microbial communities[Slides][Video][CC][Transcript]
8/04, 1:00pm Maren Friesen
Washington State
Why do bacteria fix nitrogen? Ecological, evolutionary, and economic perspectives[Slides][Video][CC][Transcript]
8/03, 3:00pm Mikhail Tikhonov
Washington University
The challenge for eco/evo theory: looking for the right variables[Video][CC][Transcript]
8/03, 1:00pm Jay Lennon
Indiana
Microbial seed banks: complexity emerging from dormancy[Slides][Video][CC][Transcript]
8/02, 3:00pm Rachel Dutton
UCSD
The secret life of cheese[Video][CC][Transcript]
8/02, 1:00pm Susan Holmes
Stanford
Microbial communities as topics: a solution to strain switching?[Slides][Video][CC][Transcript]
7/30, 3:45pm Alexander Petroff
Clark Univ.
Motion of Multicellular Magnetotactic Bacteria[Video][CC][Transcript]
7/30, 3:00pm Kaumudi Prabhakara
Univ. of Chicago
Nutrient availability controls coupling between algae and bacteria[Video][CC][Transcript]
7/30, 1:00pm Daniel Fisher
Stanford
Why is there so much fine-scale microbial diversity?[Video][CC][Transcript]
7/29, 4:00pm Ned Wingreen
Princeton
Why cross-feeding? Guidance from simple models, Part II[Slides][Video]
7/29, 3:00pm Ned Wingreen
Princeton
Why cross-feeding? Guidance from simple models, Part I[Slides][Protected][Video]
7/29, 1:00pm Ben Callahan
NC State
Metagenomic Measurements of Microbial Communities[Video][CC][Transcript]
7/28, 3:30pm Sri Srikant
MIT
Short Talk: Bacteriophage evolution constrained by bacterial host genomes[Video][CC][Transcript]
7/28, 3:00pm Karna Gowda
Univ. of Chicago
Short Talk: Pathway splitting in denitrifying bacterial communities.[Slides][Video][CC][Transcript]
7/28, 1:00pm Seppe Kuehn
U. of Chicago
The structure/function problem in microbial communities[Video][CC][Transcript]
7/27, 3:00pm Oskar Hallatschek
UC Berkeley
Jam and conquer[Video][CC][Transcript]
7/27, 1:00pm Dianne Newman
(Caltech)
Avi Flamholz
(Caltech)
Microbial energy conservation when O2 is scarce: ubiquity, importance and mechanisms[Video][CC][Transcript]
7/26, 3:00pm Terry Hwa
UCSD
Taking a close look into metabolic crossfeeding[Video][CC][Transcript]
7/26, 1:00pm Ben Good
Stanford
Eco-evolutionary feedbacks in the gut microbiome[Slides][Video][CC][Transcript]
7/23, 3:00pm Andrew Murray
Harvard
Evolution, eukaryotes, and organelles[Video][CC][Transcript]
7/23, 1:00pm Jonathan Friedman
Hebrew Univ.
Predicting the Structure of Microbial Communities[Video][CC][Transcript]
7/22, 3:00pm Wenying Shou
UCL
Synthetic microbial communities: why use them?[Video][CC][Transcript]
7/22, 1:00pm Terry Hwa
UCSD
Microbial physiology[Video][CC][Transcript]
7/21, 3:00pm Pankaj Mehta
BU
Modeling microbial ecosystems[Video][CC][Transcript]
7/21, 1:00pm KC Huang
Stanford
Assembly and robustness of communities of gut commensals[Video][CC][Transcript]
7/20, 3:00pm Daniel Segre
BU
Review: Introduction to metabolic networks[Video][CC][Transcript]
7/20, 1:00pm Devaki Bhaya
Carnegie Institution
Review: Diversity, dynamics and defense in microbial mat communities[Video][CC][Transcript]
7/19, 1:00pm Otto Cordero
MIT
Review: Microbes in the environment[Slides][Video][CC][Transcript]