Events

Scott Miller: tba

Date: Mar 16, 2020
Time: 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker: Scott Miller from the University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA
For more information on the speaker, please see http://hs.umt.edu/dbs/labs/miller/
Location: MPI Plön
Room: Lecture hall
Host: Paul Rainey

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Special seminar - Georg Hochberg: Chance and purpose in the evolution of protein complexes

Date: Nov 25, 2019
Time: 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker: Georg Hochberg from the MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg, Germany
Location: MPI Plön
Room: Hörsaal
Host: Paul Rainey

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Special seminar - Sander Tans: Motility in bacterial coexistence

Date: Nov 14, 2019
Time: 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker: Sander Tans from the Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF), Netherlands
Location: MPI Plön
Room: Lecture hall
Host: Paul Rainey

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Special seminar - Bram van Dijk: The ecology and evolution of Virtual Microbes

Date: Nov 13, 2019
Time: 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker: Bram van Dijk from Utrecht University, Netherlands
Location: MPI Plön
Room: Lecture hall
Host: Paul Rainey

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Special seminar - Jeffrey Blanchard: Giant Viruses, Chlamydia, Vampire Bacteria and the Unexpected Diversity in Soil Microbial Life in the Harvard Forest Experimental Warming Plots

Date: Nov 8, 2019
Time: 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker: Jeffrey Blanchard from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA, USA
Location: MPI Plön
Room: Praktikumsraum
Host: Paul Rainey

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Bruce Levin: An excursion into the population and evolutionary dynamics of bacteriophage

Date: Oct 17, 2019
Time: 11:00 - 11:00
Speaker: Bruce Levin from Emory University, Atlanta, USA
Here you will find more information on the speaker: https://www.eclf.net/
Location: MPI Plön
Room: Lecture hall
Host: Paul Rainey

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Søren Molin: Survival strategies in bacterial populations during persistent lung infections

Date: Sep 9, 2019
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker: Søren Molin from the Technical University of Denmark in Lyngby
For more information on the speaker, please see: https://www.dtu.dk/english/service/phonebook/person?id=1652&tab=1
Location: MPI Plön
Room: Lecture hall
Host: Paul Rainey

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Michael Seeger: Genetic diversity of Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. michiganensis strains from Central Chile and their phylogenetic relationships with strains from America, Europe and Africa

Date: Jul 15, 2019
Time: 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker: Prof Michael Seeger from the Universidad Valparaiso, Chile
Here you find more information on the speaker (in Spanish): https://www.departamentoquimica.usm.cl/academicos/michael-seeger/
Location: MPI Plön
Room: Lecture hall
Host: Paul Rainey

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Special Seminar - Pierrick Bourrat: Transitions in Evolution: A Formal Analysis

Date: Jun 4, 2019
Time: 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker: Pierrick Bourrat from Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Please find more information on the speaker here: https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/pierrick-bourrat
Location: MPI Plön
Room: Lecture hall
Host: Paul Rainey

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Rees Kassen: From so simple a beginning - Adaptation and diversification in microbial populations

Date: May 3, 2019
Time: 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker: Rees Kassen from the Department for Biology at University of Ottawa, Canada
For more information on the speaker please see: https://research.uottawa.ca/people/kassen-rees
Location: MPI Plön
Room: Lecture hall
Host: Paul Rainey

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Special Seminar - Steven Quistad: Experimental manipulation of Selfish Genetic Elements (SGEs) links genes to microbial community function

rescheduled: new date on March 22
Date: Mar 22, 2019
Time: 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker: Steven Quistad from the École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la ville de Paris (ESPCI), France
More information on the speaker can be found here: http://www.stevenquistad.com/
Location: MPI Plön
Room: Lecture hall
Host: Paul Rainey

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Victor de Lorenzo: Evolution as heterotic computing - How environmental bacteria conquest the chemical space

Date: Nov 28, 2018
Time: 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker: Victor de Lorenzo, Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia, CSIC, Madrid, Spain
More information on the speaker can be found here: http://www.cnb.csic.es/index.php/es/investigacion/departamentos-de-investigacion/biologia-de-sistemas/microbiologia-medioambiental-molecular
Location: MPI Plön
Room: Lecture hall
Host: Paul Rainey

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Daniel Falush: The landscape of coadaptation in Vibrio parahaemolyticus

Date: Nov 14, 2018
Time: 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker: Daniel Falush, University of Barth, UK
More information on the speaker can be found here: https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/daniel-falush
Location: MPI Plön
Room: Lecture hall
Host: Paul Rainey

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Special Seminar - Javier Lopez-Garrido: Metabolic principles of immortality: metabolic differentiation and intercellular nourishment during bacterial endospore formation

Date: Aug 10, 2018
Time: 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker: Javier Lopez-Garrido from the University of California, San Diego, USA
Location: MPI Plön
Room: Lecture hall
Host: Paul Rainey

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Special seminar - Christina Straub: Ecological genetics of resident Pseudomonas syringae on kiwifruit

Date: Aug 9, 2018
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker: Christina Straub, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand
Location: MPI Plön
Room: Lecture hall
Host: Paul Rainey

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Michael McDonald: Adaptation in recombining experimental populations of microbes, and the repeatability of evolution

Date: Aug 8, 2018
Time: 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker: Dr. Michael J. McDonald (School of Biological Sciences Faculty of Science Monash University, Melbourne, Australia)
More information on the speaker can be found here: https://www.monash.edu/science/schools/biological-sciences/staff2/michael-mcdonald
Location: MPI Plön
Room: Lecture hall
Host: Paul Rainey

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Honour McCann: Emergence and Evolution of Plant Infectious Disease

Date: Jun 18, 2018
Time: 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker: Honour McCann from the Zealand Institute for Advanced Study, Massey University, NZ
For more information on Honour McCann, please check: http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/expertise/profile.cfm?stref=108250
Location: MPI Plön
Room: Lecture hall
Host: Paul Rainey

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Rafal Mostowy: Diversity and evolution of polysaccharide antigens in Enterobacteriaceae

Date: May 25, 2018
Time: 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker: Rafal Mostowy from the Imperial College London, UK
More information on the speaker: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/r.mostowy
Location: MPI Plön
Room: Lecture hall
Host: Paul Rainey

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Pierrick Bourrat: Dissolving the Fitness-Decoupling Paradox in Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality

Date: May 11, 2018
Time: 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker: Pierrick Bourrat from Macquarie University, Sydney, Australien
For further information on the speaker, please check here: https://mq.edu.au/about_us/faculties_and_departments/faculty_of_arts/department_of_philosophy/staff/pierrick_bourrat/
Location: MPI Plön
Room: Lecture hall
Host: Paul Rainey

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Vishaka Datta Screenivasa Gopalan: ChIP-seq simulations reveal key sources of variations and suggest experimental design

Date: Apr 27, 2018
Time: 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker: Vishaka Datta Screenivasa Gopalan from the National Centre of Biological Sciences NCBS, Bangalore, India
Location: MPI Plön
Room: Practical Room
Host: Paul Rainey

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Philippe Remigi: The evolution of phenotypic heterogeneity in Pseudomonas fluorescens

Date: Apr 24, 2018
Time: 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker: Philippe Remigi from Massey University, New Zealand
Please find more information on Philippe Remigi here: http://evolution.massey.ac.nz/philippe.html
Location: MPI Plön
Room: Lecture hall
Host: Paul Rainey

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Guilhem Dulcier: Evolution of heredity

Date: Apr 11, 2018
Time: 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker: Guilhem Dulcier from École normale supérieure - Paris, France
Location: MPI Plön
Room: Lecture hall
Host: Paul Rainey

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Javier Lopez-Garrido: Coordination of cellular processes between different cell-types during Bacillus subtilis sporulation

Date: Mar 31, 2017
Time: 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker: Javier Lopez-Garrido from the University of California, San Diego, USA
Location: MPI Plön
Room: Lecture hall
Host: Paul Rainey

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