| Sunday, July 29, 2001 |
| Microbial communities and societies
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| Discussion Leader: Sebastian Bonhoeffer |
| William Costerton
Montana State University
Bacterial biofilms as integrated communities |
| Joan Strassmann
Rice University
Social conflict in the social amoeba, Dictyostelium discoideum |
| Sebastian Bonhoeffer ETH Zurich
Cooperation and competition in the evolution of ATP-producing pathways |
| Bonnie Bassler
Princeton University
How Bacteria Talk To Each Other: Regulation of Gene Expression by Quorum Sensing |
| Monday, July 30, 2001 |
| Viral evolution I |
| Discussion Leader: Esteban Domingo |
| Mary Poss University of Montana
Feline immunodeficiency virus evolution as an indicator of population dynamics of wild felid hosts |
| Esteban Domingo
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
Memory and extinction in viral quasispecies |
| Terry Hwa University of California San Diego
Molecular evolution and the statistics of regulatory DNA motifs |
| Christina Burch Princeton University
Increased environmental and mutational sensitivity with increased fitness in the bacteriophage phi6 |
| John Yin University of Wisconsin
Probing genetic interactions in phage T7 by in silico mutagenesis |
| Mutational effects and evolution |
| Discussion Leader: Rosemary J. Redfield |
| Rosemary J. Redfield
University of British Columbia
Putting sex in context; why bacteria take up DNA |
| Christian Schlotterer Veterinarmedizinische Universitat Wien
Tracing beneficial mutations in E. coli with a polymorphic microsatellite marker |
| Jeffrey H. Miller
University of California, Los Angeles
Mutators in cell populations |
| Ivan Matic INSERM Faculte de Medecine-Necker
High incidence of strong inducible mutators among E. coli natural isolates |
| Tuesday, July 31, 2001 |
| Ecology and evolution of infectious diseases |
| Discussion Leader: Bruce Levin |
| Bruce Levin
Emory University
Mutation, evolution, and the within-host population dynamics of bacterial infections |
| Marc Lipsitch Harvard School of Public Health
The rise and fall of antimicrobial resistance: what determines how fast resistance changes following changes in the pattern of antimicrobial use? |
| Margaret Riley Yale University
Addressing resistance in antimicrobial design |
| Janis Antonovics
University of Virginia
Ecology and evolution of sexually transmitted diseases |
| Microbial genetics and genomics |
| Discussion Leader: Howard Ochman |
| David Guttman University of Toronto
An in vivo screen for type III effector proteins in the phytopathogen pseudomonas syringae |
| Joseph Pogliano
University of California, San Diego
Visualization of replication and partitioning of plasmid DNA during bacterial mitosis |
| Jonathan A. Eisen The Institute for Genomic Research
Microbial genome evolution and the benefits of phylogenomic analysis: or why all genome projects need an evolutionary biologist |
| Howard Ochman
University of Arizona
Bacterial Genomics: Promise and prospects |
| Wednesday, August 1, 2001 |
| Model systems: theory and experiments I |
| Discussion Leader: Michel Blot |
| Christopher Adami
California Institute of Technology
Digital Organisms for Experimental Evolution |
| Vaughn Cooper University of Michigan
Adaptation, specialization and constraint in evolving E. coli populations |
| Michel Blot Universite J. Fourier
Multi-evidence for IS-borne genomic adaptation in E. coli |
| Anthony Dean University of Minnesota
Form, function and fitness: a molecular guide |
| Jeff Lawrence University of Pittsburg
Fishbait, unnatural death and the evolution of antigenic diversity in salmonella |
| Model systems: theory and experiments II |
| Discussion Leader: Daniel Dykhuizen |
| Stanislas Leibler
Princeton University
Motility and chemotaxis of bacteria: theory and experiments |
| Jamie Gillooly
University of New Mexico
Biological Time: Effects of mass and temperature on population growth in
microbes and other organisms |
| Martin Ackermann
University of Basel
Senescence and Life History Evolution in a Bacterium |
| Thursday, August 2, 2001 |
| Viral Evolution II |
| Discussion Leader: Simon Wain-Hobson |
| Robin Bush
University of California Irvine
Predicting influenza evolution |
| Igor Rouzine Tufts University
Crossover between stochastic and deterministic behavior of evolution: an analytic review and applications to virology |
| Minghsun Liu University of California, Los Angeles
Reverse transcriptase-mediated diversity in host-parasite interactions: tropism switching by bordetella bacteriophage |
| Simon Wain-Hobson
Institut Pasteur
HIV and RNA viruses change more than they evolve |
| Keith Crandall
Brigham Young University
The relationship between genetic diversity of HIV and disease progression towards AIDS |
| Microbial Eukaryotes |
| Discussion Leader: Michele Dubois |
| Michele Dubois
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
How are yeast chromosome ends protected? |
| Heather True-Krob
The University of Chicago
Biological Significance of the Yeast Prion [PSI+] |
| Laura Landweber
Princenton University
Evolution of gene scrambling and RNA editing in microbial eukaryotes |
