Events

In the beginning was an ecosystem: The onset of evolution at the origin of life

In the beginning was an ecosystem: The onset of evolution at the origin of life

• Date: Jun 22, 2020
• Time: 16:00 - 17:00
• Speaker: Prof. David Baum, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
• please see https://botany.wisc.edu/staff/baum-david/
• Location: virtual platform
• Host: Paul Rainey

Modeling cancer evolution: integrating theory with experiment

Modeling cancer evolution: integrating theory with experiment

• Date: Jun 15, 2020
• Time: 16:30 - 17:30
• Speaker: Dr. Christopher McFarland, Stanford University, CA, USA
• please see https://profiles.stanford.edu/christopher-mcfarland
• Location: virtual platform
• Host: Paul Rainey

Selection, adaptation, and generalization

• Date: Jun 12, 2020
• Time: 16:00 - 17:00
• Speaker: Prof. John Damuth, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
• Please see: https://www.eemb.ucsb.edu/people/researchers/damuth
• Location: virtual platform
• Host: Paul Rainey

Connecting individual eukaryotic cells with friends and enemies in the sea

Connecting individual eukaryotic cells with friends and enemies in the sea

• Date: Jun 11, 2020
• Time: 11:00 - 11:00
• Speaker: Prof. Alexandra Worden, GEOMAR
• Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute; University of Kiel & GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
• Location: virtual platform
• Host: Paul Rainey

The structure-function problem in microbial communities

The structure-function problem in microbial communities

• Date: Jun 5, 2020
• Time: 16:00 - 17:00
• Speaker: Seppe Kuehn
• Prof. Seppe Kuehn, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA
• Location: virtual platform
• Host: Paul Rainey

Scott Miller: Plasticity lost and found: cyanobacterial adaptation to novel environments

• unfortunately cancelled due to illness
• 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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