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
Keynote Session: Innovations in Evolution
Discussion Leader: Michael Wiser (BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action, Michigan State University, USA)
3:45 pm - 4:20 pm
Michael Travisano (University of Minnesota, USA)
"Innovations in Evolution"
4:20 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
From the Environment to the Adaptive Landscape
Discussion Leaders: Eric Bruger (University of Idaho, USA) and Jasmine Ono (University College London, United Kingdom)
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Asher Leeks (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
"Why Do Viruses Produce Defective Sequences?"
7:40 pm - 7:45 pm
Discussion
7:45 pm - 7:55 pm
Gonensin Ozan Bozdag (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
"Oxygen and the Experimental Evolution of Macroscopic Multicellular Size"
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm
Alfonso Santos-Lopez (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
"The Roles of History, Chance and Adaptation in the Evolution of Antimicrobial Resistance"
8:10 pm - 8:15 pm
Discussion
8:15 pm - 8:25 pm
Kyle Card (Michigan State University, USA)
"Predictability and Contingency in the Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance After Multiple Decades of Relaxed Selection"
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm
Marketa Vlkova (Massey University, New Zealand)
"Transcriptional Plasticity of Environmental E. coli Isolates"
8:40 pm - 8:45 pm
Discussion
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm
Simon Lax (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
"Increasing Temperature Favors Slower-Growing Bacterial Species in Microbial Competition"
8:55 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm
Marc Garcia-Garcera (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
"Following Horizontal Gene Transfer in Communities in Real Time"
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm
Discussion
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm
Sonia Singhal (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
"A Bacteriophage Model of the Evolutionary Consequences of Recombination"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
New Insights from Experiments with Microbial Communities and Coevolution
Discussion Leaders: Fatima Hussain (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) and Sébastien Wielgoss (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
9:00 am - 9:10 am
Devani Romero Picazo (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany)
"Genetic Isolation of Horizontally Transmitted Symbionts in Deep-Sea Mussels"
9:10 am - 9:15 am
Discussion
9:15 am - 9:25 am
Anthony Ortiz Lopez (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
"Interspecies Bacterial Competition Determines Community Assembly in the C. elegans Intestine"
9:25 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:40 am
Sarah Hammarlund (University of Minnesota, USA)
"A Shared Limiting Resource Leads to Competitive Exclusion in a Cross-Feeding System"
9:40 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 9:55 am
Jennifer Rattray (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
"Collective Decision-Making in Bacteria: How Do Microbes Respond to Increasing Cell Densities and Why?"
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:10 am
Yinyin Ma (ETH Zürich / Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG), Switzerland)
"Consequences of Microbial Spatial Self-Organization on Horizontal Gene Transfer"
10:10 am - 10:15 am
Discussion
10:15 am - 10:25 am
Daniel Schwartz (Indiana University, USA)
"Host-Phage Coevolution with a Seed Bank"
10:25 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 10:40 am
Catherine Hernandez (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
"Context-Dependent Strength of Selection and Costs of Resistance Shape the Evolution of Resistance to Phage in a Plant Pathogenic Bacterium"
10:40 am - 10:45 am
Discussion
10:45 am - 10:55 am
Neal Jahren (University of Minnesota, USA)
"Experimental Evolution of Collective Action Despite Genetic Conflict"
10:55 am - 11:00 am
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
Mapping Molecular Mechanisms of Evolution from Genotype to Phenotype
Discussion Leader: Renan Almeida (University of Toronto, Canada)
1:30 pm - 1:40 pm
Olivia Kosterlitz (University of Washington, USA)
"A Microbial Poison that Is Its Own Antidote"
1:40 pm - 1:45 pm
Discussion
1:45 pm - 1:55 pm
Célia Souque (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
"Does the Integron Increase Evolvability Against Antibiotics in Mobile Integron?"
1:55 pm - 2:00 pm
Discussion
2:00 pm - 2:10 pm
Bryan Andrews (University of Washington, USA)
"Interrogating Lambda Host Range by Deep Mutational Scanning"
2:10 pm - 2:15 pm
Discussion
2:15 pm - 2:25 pm
Mary Bushman (Emory University, USA)
"Evolutionary Emergence of Infectious Diseases: A Novel Paradigm Linking Within-Host Interactions to Between-Host Fitness"
2:25 pm - 2:30 pm
Discussion
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes
