Workshop theme
Microbial communities constitute a new frontier of biological enquiry. They present fundamental scientific questions and challenges in relation to complex dynamical systems, ecological and evolutionary trade-offs, and synthetic (re)engineering of microbial communities. Answering these scientific questions will only be possible by application of interdisciplinary approaches combining empirical and theoretical methods. At the same time, the study of microbial communities can result in the development of new theories and approaches. This workshop aims to bring together empirical and theoretical scientists to discuss open problems and potentials in the study of microbial communities. Key note speakers will include world-leading experts from diverse areas such as systems biology, mathematics, microbial ecology and genetics, and will facilitate discussions among participants. The workshop will take place at the Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK, as part of a larger research programme on the study of function and structure of microbial communities.
Applications for this workshop are now closed
The Institute kindly requests that any papers published as a result of this programme’s activities are credited as such. Please acknowledge the support of the Institute in your paper using the following text:
The author(s) would like to thank the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, for support and hospitality during the programme Summer school, where work on this paper was undertaken. This work was supported by EPSRC grant EP/K032208/1.
Timetable
| Wednesday 10th September 2014 | |||
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| 11:00 to 12:30 | No Room Required | ||
| 12:30 to 13:20 | No Room Required | ||
| 13:20 to 13:30 | No Room Required | ||
| 13:30 to 14:05 |
Plenary Lecture 1: Contingency and convergence in microbial population dynamics |
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| 14:05 to 14:40 |
Plenary Lecture 2: Cancer-like overgrowths and genomic regulatory design in microbes |
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| 14:40 to 15:15 | Room 1 |
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| 15:15 to 15:45 | No Room Required | ||
| 15:45 to 16:20 | Room 1 |
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| 16:20 to 16:55 |
Plenary Lecture 5: Survival of the unfit - how demographic noise can create suboptimal species |
Room 1 |
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| 16:55 to 17:10 |
Contributed Talk 1: Computational models of spatial behaviour of microbial communities |
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| 17:10 to 18:00 | No Room Required | ||
| Thursday 11th September 2014 | |||
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| 09:30 to 10:05 |
Plenary Lecture 6: Mixed and Hierarchical Utilization of Carbon Substrates by Bacteria |
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| 10:05 to 10:40 |
Plenary Lecture 7: Numerical modelling, an interdisciplinary bridge in studying microbial biofilms |
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| 10:40 to 10:55 |
Contributed Talk 2: The Initiative for the Critical Assessment of Metagenome Interpretation (CAMI) |
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| 10:55 to 11:25 | No Room Required | ||
| 11:25 to 11:55 |
Plenary Lecture 8: Algal-bacterial consortia and evolution of mutualism |
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| 11:55 to 12:30 |
Plenary Lecture 9: Structure and functions of the bacterial phyllosphere microbiota |
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| 12:30 to 13:30 | No Room Required | ||
| 15:25 to 15:55 | Room 1 | ||
| 15:55 to 16:30 | Room 1 |
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| 16:30 to 17:05 | Room 1 |
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| 17:05 to 17:20 | Room 1 |
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| 17:20 to 17:35 | Room 1 |
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| 19:30 to 22:00 | No Room Required | ||
| Friday 12th September 2014 | |||
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| 09:30 to 10:05 |
Plenary Lecture 14: Development and Evolution in Environmental Biofilms |
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| 10:05 to 10:40 |
Plenary Lecture 15: Geomicrobial kinetics: bridging the gap between laboratory and nature |
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| 10:40 to 10:55 |
Contributed Talk 5: Uptake levelling in chemotactic bacteria measured by the Gini index |
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| 10:55 to 11:25 | No Room Required | ||
| 11:25 to 11:55 |
Plenary Lecture 16: Collective Functionality Through Microbial Individuality |
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| 11:55 to 12:30 | Room 1 |
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| 12:30 to 13:30 | No Room Required | ||
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