Events

Having ideas is common, bad ones more so than good ones. However even the best ones are difficult to translate into practice because they encounter hurdles during their development. The talk 'fragility of ideas' deals with the nature of these hurdles and discusses the human factors which create and influence them in a variety of different historical and contextual settings. As a guide it uses the story of the development of new heart valve technology which I accompanied from the concept to clinical application. [more]

Quid pro quo – the evolutionary and psychological origins of reciprocal help

Date: Jun 4, 2021
Time: 11:00
Speaker: Manon K. Schweinfurth
Location: virtual platform

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The inevitable density-dependent dispersal in viral populations and its role in viral evolution

Date: Jun 1, 2021
Time: 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker: Diana Fusco, University of Cambridge
Location: virtual platform
Host: Elisa Brambilla/ Paul Rainey

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Theory in Spring

Evolutionary Theory across scales of organisation Part III

Date: May 6, 2021
Time: 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker: Helen Alexander (University of Edinburgh)
https://www.ed.ac.uk/biology/groups/alexander
Location: virtual platform
Host: Chaitanya Gokhale

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Theory in Spring

Evolutionary Theory Across Scales of Organisation Part II

Date: Apr 8, 2021
Time: 11:00
Speaker: Anne Kandler (MPI for Anthropology)
https://www.eva.mpg.de/ecology/staff/anne_kandler/
Location: virtual platform
Host: Chaitanya Gokhale

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Nonlinear averaging in 2D: intraspecific variation in two interacting species and consequences for population dynamics

Theory in Spring

Date: Mar 25, 2021
Time: 11:00
Speaker: Meike Wittmann (University of Bielefeld)
https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/biologie/forschung/arbeitsgruppen/theoretical/
Location: virtual platform
Host: Chaitanya Gokhale

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High-resolution dynamics of bacterial lineage diversity during adaptation to weak antibiotic pressure

Date: Feb 23, 2021
Time: 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker: Dr. Michael Manhart, ETH Zurich
https://usys.ethz.ch/en/people/profile.MjU0MTQx.TGlzdC82MzcsMzIwMTk3MjIy.html
Location: virtual platform
Host: Paul Rainey/ Loukas Theodosiou

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Antibiotic Resistance: Public health ethics, medical ethics and individual moral responsibility

Antibiotic resistance: Public health ethics, medical ethics and individual moral responsibility

Date: Feb 8, 2021
Time: 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker: Mirko Ancillotti, Uppsala University
Location: virtual platform
Host: Felix Geoffroy

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The genotype-phenotype-phenotype-phenotype-fitness map

Date: Feb 2, 2021
Time: 16:30 - 17:30
Speaker: Dr. Kerry Geiler-Samerotte
https://sols.asu.edu/kerry-geiler-samerotte
Location: virtual platform
Host: Paul Rainey/ Loukas Theodosiou

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Vaccine distribution ethics: monotheism or polytheism?

Date: Jan 29, 2021
Time: 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker: Alberto Giubilini, University of Oxford
Location: virtual platform
Host: Felix Geoffroy

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Introduction to Bioethics and Politics in the United States

Bioethics Seminar Series: Introduction to Bioethics and Politics in the United States

Date: Jan 14, 2021
Time: 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker: Adam Briggle, University of North Texas
Location: virtual platform
Host: Felix Geoffroy

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Evolutionary dynamics of indirect reciprocity with endogenous norms

Date: Dec 9, 2020
Time: 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker: Julian Garcia, Monash University, Australia
Location: virtual platform
Host: Christian Hilbe

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Type VI Secretion System: structure and function of a bacterial killing machine

Date: Dec 4, 2020
Time: 11:30 - 12:30
Speaker: Patricia Bernal, Universität Sevilla
Location: virtual platform
Host: Daniel Unterweger
Contact: unterweger@evolbio.mpg.de

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Geometric properties of spin models

Date: Dec 3, 2020
Time: 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker: Amanda Azevedo
Location: virtual platform
Host: Arne Traulsen
Contact: traulsen@evolbio.mpg.de

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Genomic, cell biological, and biochemical mosaics in bacteria-animal endosymbioses

Date: Sep 24, 2020
Time: 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker: Prof. Dr. John McCutcheon, University of Arizona, USA
https://biodesign.asu.edu/john-mccutcheon
Location: virtual platform
Host: Paul Rainey/ Loukas Theodosiou

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Molecular evolution in the presence of limited recombination

Date: Sep 10, 2020
Time: 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker: Dr. Ivana Cvijovic, Stanford University, USA
https://biophysics.princeton.edu/people/ivana-cvijovic
Location: virtual platform
Host: Paul Rainey/ Loukas Theodosiou

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Going viral? Panel at ESOF 2020

Date: Sep 3, 2020
Time: 18:00 - 19:30
Location: virtual platform
Host: Brad Wible, Science; Guy Reeves, MPI for Evolutionary Biology

How can the spread of COVID 19 be controlled? One approach that has been discussed lately is to release a virally transmitted vaccine to disperse it among the population. But is this really ethically acceptable? Join the panel at ESOF 2020 on Sept 3, 18:00 - 19:30, co-organized by Guy Reeves, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology! [more]

De novo mutations in human skin microbiomes

Date: Aug 3, 2020
Time: 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker: Dr. Tami Lieberman, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, MIT
http://lieberman.science/
Location: virtual platform
Host: Paul Rainey/ Andy Farr

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A dynamin-like protein involved in bacterial cell membrane surveillance under environmental stress

Date: Jul 16, 2020
Time: 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker: Prof. Marc Bramkamp, Institute for General Microbiology, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
please see https://www.mikrobio.uni-kiel.de/de/ag-bramkamp/prof-dr-marc-bramkamp
Location: virtual platform
Host: Paul Rainey/ Loukas Theodosiou

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Exploring the physical geography of an empirical fitness landscape

Date: Jul 1, 2020
Time: 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker: Dr. Djordje Bajić, Yale University, New Haven, USA
please see https://eeb.yale.edu/people/postdoctoral-and-research-appointments/djordje-bajic
Location: virtual platform
Host: Paul Rainey/ Loukas Theodosiou

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Division of labour and disease dynamics in clonal ant societies

Date: Jun 30, 2020
Time: 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker: Dr. Yuko Ulrich
https://www.ulrichlab.com
Location: virtual platform
Host: Arne Traulsen

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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

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The Stabilizing Role of Mutation; or, Towards understanding Network Topologies under Evolutionary Dynamics

The Stabilizing Role of Mutation; or, Towards understanding Network Topologies under Evolutionary Dynamics"

Date: Jun 22, 2020
Time: 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker: Johann Bauer, City University London
Please see https://www.bevnon.be//
Location: virtual platform
Host: Arne Traulsen

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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

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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

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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

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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

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The Entangled Fates of Viruses and Their Microbial Hosts

Date: Jun 2, 2020
Time: 16:00 - 16:00
Speaker: Joshua Weitz, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
For more information about Joshua please see: https://ecotheory.biosci.gatech.edu
Location: virtual platform
Host: Loukas Theodosiou
Contact: theodosiou@evolbio.mpg.de

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virtual seminar: Life in the crowd: Deciphering microbial communities

Date: May 28, 2020
Time: 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker: Christoph Ratzke, University of Tübingen
Location: virtual platform
Host: Loukas Theodosiou
Contact: theodosiou@evolbio.mpg.de

Microbes usually don't live isolated but in large communities. Despite the importance of these communities for our health and well being, we have a very limited understanding of how these communities mechanistically work. A central factor that shapes microbial assemblages are the interactions between the microbes. [more]

virtual seminar - Alvaro San Millan: Dissemination routes of the carbapenem resistance plasmid pOXA-48 in a hospital setting

Date: Apr 14, 2020
Time: 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker: Alvaro San Millan from the Hospital Universitario Ramon y Cajal, IRYCIS in Madrid, Spain
Here you can find more informationen on the speaker: https://www.pbelab.es/
Location: virtual platform
Host: Hildegard Uecker

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virtual seminar - Matthew Osmond: Predicting the genetic basis and genetic signature of evolutionary rescue

Date: Mar 30, 2020
Time: 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker: Matthew Osmond from the University of California Davis, CA, USA
Here you find more information on the speaker: https://mmosmond.github.io/
Location: virtual platform
Host: Hildegard Uecker

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