| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | How far have we come; the past twenty years of microbial population biology |
| Session Chair: Bruce Levin, Emory University |
| Lin Chao, UCSD |
| Dan Dykhuizen, SUNY Stony Brook |
| Barry Hall, Bellingham Research Institute |
| Dan Hartl, Harvard University |
| John Roth, U.C. Davis |
| 9:30 pm | Chair's Reception - hosted by Peg and Paul |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 8:30 am | Photo |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Microbial ecology |
| Session Chair: Colleen Cavanaugh, Harvard University |
| Peter Morin, Rutgers University
The ecology of microbial aquatic communities |
| Colleen Cavanaugh, Harvard University
Symbioses of bacteria from deep-sea vents |
| Coffee Break |
| Sallie Chisholm, MIT
Facultative endosymbiotic bacteria of aphid: biological significance of hidden players in insect ecology |
| Osnat Gillor, Ben Gurion University
Family ties: Colicins induce their relative's production |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Protozoan diversity and evolution |
| Session Chair: Graham Bell, University of British Columbia |
| Becky Zufall, Smith College
Protist diversity |
| Graham Bell, University of British Columbia
Protozoan sex |
| Johnathon Logsdon, University of Iowa
Phylogenomic analyses of microbial eukaryotes: hidden sex lives and an early origin of meiosis |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Genome-enabled studies |
| Session Chair: Jeffrey Blanchard, UMass Amherst |
| Jeff Lawrence, University of Pittsburgh
Mapping the flow of laterally transferred genes |
| Julian Parkhill, The Sanger Institute
Comparative genomics and genome organization of microbial pathogens |
| Coffee Break |
| Eva Topp, University of Idaho
Adaptive evolution of broad-host-range plasmids: lessons from retrospective studies and experimental evolution |
| Takema Fukatsu, AIST
Genome enabled ecology of Prochlorococcus |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session II |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Phage diversity and evolution |
| Session Chair: Jim Bull, Univ. of Texas |
| Roger Hendrix, Univ. of Pittsburgh
All the world's a phage, but how did they get that way? |
| Jim Bull, Univ. of Texas
Genomics and predictability of phage evolution |
| Holly Wichman, Univ. of Idaho
Predictability of phage evolution |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Cooperativity among microbes (in honor of John Maynard Smith) |
| Session Chair: Greg Velicer, Max-Planck Institute |
| Angus Buckling, Oxford University
Cooperation and competition in bacteria |
| Coffee Break |
| Greg Velicer, Max-Planck Institute
Evolution of novel cooperation in a social bacterium |
| Ben Kerr, University of Washington
The evolution and resolution of a 'tragedy of the commons' in a model host-pathogen metapopulation: Maynard-Smith's haystack revisited |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session III |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Ecology and evolution of infectious disease |
| Session Chair: Abigail Saylers, Univ. of Illinois |
| Carl Bergstrom, Univ. of Washington
Evolution of infectious disease |
| Abigail Saylers, Univ. of Illinois
The new ecology of antibiotic resistance genes |
| Mike Feldgarden, Suny Stony Brook
A source-sink model for the evolution of pathogenic traits |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Phenotype-genotype mapping |
| Session Chair: Richard Lenski, Michigan State University
Phenotype and genotype mapping in E. coli |
| Dom Schneider, Université Joseph Fourier
Universal regulatory factors in E. coli and their phenotypic effects |
| Coffee Break |
| Christina Burch, Univ. North Carolina
Do RNA virus populations exist near an error threshold? |
| Allan Orr, UC Davis
The genetics of adaptation: theoretical issues |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session IV |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Evolution of sex |
| Session Chair: Rosemary Redfield, UBC
Do bacteria have sex? |
| Sally Otto, UBC
Why have sex: The population genetics of sex and recombination? |
| Wendy Gibson, University of Bristol
Genetic exchange in trypanosomes: approaches to elucidate the mechanism |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Depart |
