Events

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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