Saturday
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRS Chair
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Microbial Diversity
Discussion Leader: Julio Diaz Caballero (University of Toronto, Canada)
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm
Opening Remarks
4:00 pm - 4:10 pm
Jessica Lee (University of Idaho, USA)
"How a Few Individuals Can Change the World: Phenotypic Heterogeneity Allows Methylobacterium Populations to Survive Formaldehyde Stress"
4:10 pm - 4:15 pm
Discussion
4:15 pm - 4:25 pm
Renan Almeida (University of Toronto, Canada)
"Identification of Pseudomonas syringae Type III Effector Sequences Associated with Adaptation to Distinct Plant Families"
4:25 pm - 4:30 pm
Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
The Evolution of Communities / Microbial Population Dynamics
Discussion Leaders: Zachary Blount (BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action, USA) and Sarah Hammarlund (University of Minnesota, USA)
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Rebecca Ansorge (Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany)
"Resolving Strain Variability and Transmission Modes in Natural Host-Associated Symbiont Communities"
7:40 pm - 7:45 pm
Discussion
7:45 pm - 7:55 pm
Robin Green (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, USA)
"Nutrient-Limitation Triggers Social Behavior and Catalyzes the Formation of a Simple Community in Yeast"
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm
Gabriel Leventhal (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
"Microbial Interactions Drive Species Diversification Through Local Adaptations"
8:10 pm - 8:15 pm
Discussion
8:15 pm - 8:25 pm
Alex Nguyen Ba (Harvard University, USA)
"Long-Term Lineage Tracking in Microbial Populations"
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm
Mrudula Sane (National Centre for Biological Sciences, India)
"Antagonistic Pleiotropy Under Genetic Drift"
8:40 pm - 8:45 pm
Discussion
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm
Eisha Mhatre (University of Jena, Germany)
"Taking the Road Less Travelled - Effective Selection of Growth Yield Strategies in Spatially Structured Environments"
8:55 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm
Diana Fusco (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
"Genetic Diversity in Spatially Growing Populations and Its Consequence for Drug Resistance"
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm
Discussion
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm
Jasmine Ono (University of British Columbia, Canada)
"Evolutionary Rescue to High Concentrations of Drug Depends on Ploidy in Yeast"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Viral Evolution / Microbial Evolution in Health
Discussion Leader: Alita Burmeister (Yale University, USA)
9:00 am - 9:10 am
Alison Feder (Stanford University, USA)
"Tracking Evolutionary Dynamics over Time to Uncover Hidden Population Structure in Within-Host Simian-HIV Populations"
9:10 am - 9:15 am
Discussion
9:15 am - 9:25 am
Samuel Diaz-Munoz (New York University, USA)
"Viral Coinfection Is Shaped by Host Ecology and Virus-Virus Interactions Across Diverse Microbial Taxa and Environments"
9:25 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:40 am
Katherine Xue (University of Washington, USA)
"Parallel Evolution of Influenza Across Spatiotemporal Scales"
9:40 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 9:55 am
Inès Levade (Universite de Montreal, Canada)
"Evolution of Acute Cholera Infections on Human Time Scales"
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:10 am
Hannah Jordt (University of Washington, USA)
"Use It AND Lose It: Alternating Selection to Resolve the Plasmid Paradox"
10:10 am - 10:15 am
Discussion
10:15 am - 10:25 am
Avemaria Obasi (University of Lagos, Nigeria)
"Multi-Drug Resistant Stenotrophomonas maltophilia Isolated from a Pharmaceutical Wastewater in Lagos Nigeria"
10:25 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 10:40 am
Andrei Papkou (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
"How Does Genetic Background Predetermine Emergence of De Novo Resistance in Staphylococcus aureus ?"
10:40 am - 10:45 am
Discussion
10:45 am - 11:00 am
General Discussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Poster Session
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Mentorship Component: Career Panel
Discussion Leader: Elizabeth Jerison (Stanford University, USA)
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Panel Discussion
Careers in Microbial Population Biology
Elisabeth Raleigh (New England Biolabs, USA)
B. Jesse Shapiro (University of Montreal, Canada)
Rachel Whitaker (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes
