UMC
11 August 2014 to 19 December 2014
The importance of microbial communities for health, industry and the natural environment cannot be overstated. Despite this, there is an enormous gap between the levels of our empirical knowledge of microbial communities composition and experimental and theoretical understanding of their function, structure, and dynamics. Developing and advancing mathematical and computational approaches for the study of microbial communities has huge potentials for this field. The aim of this programme is to build an interactive community of theoretical and empirical scientists that can provide these developments.
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Title | Year | Programme | |
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Lyapunov functions, stationary distributions, and non-equilibrium potential for chemical reaction networksAuthors: DF Anderson, G Cracium, M Gopalkrishnan, C Wiuf |
2014 | UMC | 21 October 2016 |
Finding the positive feedback loops underlying multi-stationarityAuthors: E Feliu, C Wiuf |
2014 | UMC | 21 October 2016 |
Saccharomyces cerevisiae: a nomadic yeast with no niche?Authors: Matthew R Goddard, D Greig |
2014 | UMC | 21 October 2016 |
18 August 2014 to 22 August 2014
10 September 2014 to 12 September 2014
27 October 2014 to 29 October 2014
26 November 2014 to 28 November 2014
10 October 2022 to 14 October 2022
Sunday 21st August 2011 | |||
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15:00 to 16:00 |
Chaos in biology: Experiments, implications and mathematical tools |
Room 2 |
Tuesday 12th August 2014 | |||
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14:00 to 15:00 | Room 2 | |
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15:00 to 16:00 |
A Non-exchangeable Coalescent Process Arising In Phylogenetics |
Room 2 | |
Thursday 21st August 2014 | |||
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14:00 to 15:00 | Room 2 | |
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15:00 to 16:00 |
Chaos in biology: Experiments, implications and mathematical tools |
Room 2 | |
Tuesday 26th August 2014 | |||
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14:00 to 15:00 |
Catalytic origami: Genetic tools and strategies for assembling 3D bacterial consortia |
Room 2 | |
Thursday 28th August 2014 | |||
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14:00 to 15:00 |
Life on the edge - microbial evolution in the presence of drug gradients |
Room 2 | |
Tuesday 2nd September 2014 | |||
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14:00 to 15:00 |
Understanding reactions of introduced bacteria in natural and engineered environments |
Room 2 | |
15:00 to 16:00 | Room 2 | |
Thursday 4th September 2014 | |||
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14:00 to 15:00 | Room 2 | |
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15:00 to 16:00 |
Theory of adaptive evolution informed by microbial experiments |
Room 2 | |
Friday 5th September 2014 | |||
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14:00 to 17:00 | Discussion Room |
Monday 8th September 2014 | |||
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10:30 to 12:00 | Room 2 | ||
16:00 to 17:00 | Room 1 | ||
17:30 to 18:30 | No Room Required |
Tuesday 9th September 2014 | |||
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09:30 to 10:30 | Room 1 |
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 |
Room 1 | |
14:05 to 14:40 |
Plenary Lecture 2: Cancer-like overgrowths and genomic regulatory design in microbes |
Room 1 | |
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 | |
16:55 to 17:10 |
Contributed Talk 1: Computational models of spatial behaviour of microbial communities |
Room 1 | |
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 |
Room 1 | |
10:05 to 10:40 |
Plenary Lecture 7: Numerical modelling, an interdisciplinary bridge in studying microbial biofilms |
Room 1 | |
10:40 to 10:55 |
Contributed Talk 2: The Initiative for the Critical Assessment of Metagenome Interpretation (CAMI) |
Room 1 | |
10:55 to 11:25 | No Room Required | ||
11:25 to 11:55 |
Plenary Lecture 8: Algal-bacterial consortia and evolution of mutualism |
Room 1 | |
11:55 to 12:30 |
Plenary Lecture 9: Structure and functions of the bacterial phyllosphere microbiota |
Room 1 | |
12:30 to 13:30 | No Room Required | ||
14:00 to 14:35 | Room 1 | ||
14:35 to 15:10 |
Plenary Lecture 11: Modelling the emergent dynamics of human colonic microbiota |
Room 1 | |
15:10 to 15:25 | Room 1 | |
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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 |
Room 1 | |
10:05 to 10:40 |
Plenary Lecture 15: Geomicrobial kinetics: bridging the gap between laboratory and nature |
Room 1 | |
10:40 to 10:55 |
Contributed Talk 5: Uptake levelling in chemotactic bacteria measured by the Gini index |
Room 1 | |
10:55 to 11:25 | No Room Required | ||
11:25 to 11:55 |
Plenary Lecture 16: Collective Functionality Through Microbial Individuality |
Room 1 | |
11:55 to 12:30 | Room 1 | |
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12:30 to 13:30 | No Room Required |
Monday 15th September 2014 | |||
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10:30 to 12:00 | Room 2 |
Tuesday 16th September 2014 | |||
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14:00 to 15:00 |
Biology of Integrative and Conjugative Elements (special agents of bacterial evolution) |
Room 2 | |
15:00 to 16:00 | Room 2 |
Thursday 18th September 2014 | |||
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14:00 to 14:30 | Room 2 | |
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14:30 to 15:00 |
Computational tools for the taxonomic analysis of shotgun metagenome samples |
Room 2 | |
15:00 to 15:30 |
Gaining Insights into the Uncultured Microbial World by Computational Metagenome Analysis |
Room 2 | |
15:30 to 16:00 | Room 2 | |
Monday 22nd September 2014 | |||
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10:30 to 12:00 | Room 2 |
Thursday 25th September 2014 | |||
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14:00 to 15:00 | Room 2 |
Monday 29th September 2014 | |||
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10:30 to 12:00 | Room 2 |
Tuesday 30th September 2014 | |||
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14:00 to 15:00 |
Colorful niches of phototrophic microorganisms shaped by vibrations of the water molecule |
Room 2 | |
Monday 6th October 2014 | |||
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10:30 to 12:00 | Room 2 |
Tuesday 7th October 2014 | |||
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14:00 to 15:00 |
Predictability and Unpredictability in nutrient-cycling microbial ecosystems |
Room 2 | |
15:00 to 16:00 | Room 2 | |
Thursday 9th October 2014 | |||
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09:30 to 12:30 | Room 2 |
Monday 13th October 2014 | |||
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10:30 to 12:00 | Room 2 |
Monday 20th October 2014 | |||
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15:00 to 16:00 |
Experimentally Quantifying Patterns in Microbial Eukaryote Populations |
Room 2 | |
16:00 to 17:00 | Room 1 | |
Tuesday 21st October 2014 | |||
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14:00 to 15:00 |
Outstanding Questions in the Ecology and Evolution of Coral Reef Microbes |
Room 2 | |
Monday 27th October 2014 | |||
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12:00 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 14:30 | Room 1 | |
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14:30 to 14:45 | Room 1 | |
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15:00 to 15:15 | Room 1 | |
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15:15 to 15:30 | No Room Required | ||
15:30 to 16:30 |
Plenary Lecture 2: Theoretical principles of virus-host population dynamics |
Room 1 | |
16:30 to 17:30 | Room 1 | |
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17:30 to 18:30 | No Room Required |
Tuesday 28th October 2014 | |||
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09:30 to 10:30 | Room 1 | |
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10:30 to 11:00 | No Room Required | ||
11:00 to 12:00 |
Plenary Lecture 5: Biogeochemical Reaction Modeling: Theory and Application |
Room 1 | |
12:00 to 12:15 | Room 1 | |
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12:15 to 12:30 | Room 1 | |
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12:30 to 13:30 | No Room Required | ||
14:00 to 15:00 | Room 1 | |
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15:00 to 15:15 | Room 1 | |
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15:15 to 15:30 | Room 1 | |
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15:30 to 16:00 | No Room Required | ||
16:00 to 17:00 |
Discussion Session: Different approaches to the modelling of microbial communities |
Room 1 |
Wednesday 29th October 2014 | |||
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09:30 to 10:30 | Room 1 | |
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10:30 to 10:45 |
Contributed Talk 7: Social evolution of toxic metal bioremediation in P.aeruginosa |
Room 1 | |
10:45 to 11:30 | No Room Required | ||
11:30 to 12:30 |
Plenary Lecture 8: Game theory for modelling microbial communities |
Room 1 | |
12:30 to 13:30 | No Room Required | ||
14:00 to 15:00 | Room 1 | |
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19:30 to 22:00 | No Room Required | ||
19:30 to 22:00 | No Room Required |
Thursday 30th October 2014 | |||
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09:00 to 09:20 | No Room Required | ||
09:20 to 09:30 | No Room Required | ||
09:30 to 10:05 |
Plenary Lecture 1: Non-Equilibrium Dynamics in Ecological Communities |
Room 1 | |
10:05 to 10:40 | Room 1 | |
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10:40 to 10:55 | Room 1 | |
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10:55 to 11:25 | No Room Required | ||
11:25 to 11:55 | Room 1 | |
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11:55 to 12:30 |
Plenary Lecture 4: Modeling Ocean Viruses: From Infections to Ecosystems |
Room 1 | |
12:30 to 13:30 | No Room Required | ||
14:00 to 14:35 | Room 1 | |
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14:35 to 15:10 |
Plenary Lecture 6: Ecology and the evolution of multicellularity |
Room 1 | |
15:10 to 15:25 |
Contributed Talk 2: Structure, Function and Dynamics in Microbial Communities |
Room 1 | |
15:25 to 15:55 | No Room Required | ||
15:55 to 16:30 |
Plenary Lecture 7: Spatio-temporal dynamics of microbial ecosystem metabolism |
Room 1 | |
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 18:30 | No Room Required |
Friday 31st October 2014 | |||
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09:30 to 10:05 | Room 1 | |
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10:05 to 10:40 |
Plenary Lecture 10: Feedback between microevolution and community structure |
Room 1 | |
10:40 to 10:55 |
Contributed Talk 4: Understanding microbial networks driving nitrogen cycling in soil |
Room 1 | |
10:55 to 11:25 | No Room Required | ||
11:25 to 11:55 |
Plenary Lecture 11: The evolution of groups and microbial collectives |
Room 1 | |
11:55 to 12:30 |
Plenary Lecture 12: The causes and consequences of metabolic specialization |
Room 1 | |
12:30 to 13:30 | No Room Required |
Monday 3rd November 2014 | |||
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09:00 to 17:00 | Discussion Room | ||
10:30 to 12:00 | Room 1 |
Tuesday 4th November 2014 | |||
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10:00 to 10:05 | Room 1 | ||
10:05 to 10:20 | Room 1 | |
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10:20 to 10:35 | Room 1 | |
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10:35 to 10:50 | Room 1 | |
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10:50 to 11:15 | No Room Required | ||
11:15 to 11:30 |
Importance of Standardising Genome-Scale Stoichiometric Models |
Room 1 | |
11:30 to 11:45 | Room 1 | |
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11:45 to 12:00 |
Constraint-based modeling of microbial communities and their interaction with the host |
Room 1 | |
12:00 to 13:00 | No Room Required | ||
13:00 to 13:15 |
Exchanging stoichiometric models: interoperability at genome scale |
Room 1 | |
13:15 to 13:30 | Room 1 | |
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13:30 to 13:45 | Room 1 | |
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13:45 to 14:00 | Room 1 | |
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14:00 to 14:30 | No Room Required | ||
14:30 to 17:00 | Room 1 |
Wednesday 5th November 2014 | |||
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14:00 to 15:00 |
Energetic feedback on chromatin state defines a system-wide reset point |
Room 1 | |
15:00 to 16:00 |
Interaction driven spatial patterning in microbial communities |
Room 1 | |
Thursday 6th November 2014 | |||
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14:00 to 15:00 | Room 2 | |
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15:00 to 16:00 |
How microbial communities drove the evolution of the genetic code more than 3.8 billion years ago |
Room 2 | |
Thursday 13th November 2014 | |||
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14:00 to 15:00 | Room 2 | |
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15:00 to 16:00 |
Omics approaches reveal how chemistry governs the biology of cystic fibrosis lung infections |
Room 2 | |
Friday 14th November 2014 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Modelling Macro Ecological Patterns: Neutral Theory and Beyond |
Room 2 |
Monday 17th November 2014 | |||
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10:30 to 12:00 | Room 2 |
Friday 21st November 2014 | |||
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14:00 to 15:00 | Room 2 |
Monday 24th November 2014 | |||
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10:30 to 12:00 | Room 2 | ||
17:00 to 18:00 | No Room Required |
Tuesday 25th November 2014 | |||
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14:00 to 17:00 | Room 1 | ||
14:00 to 15:00 |
The role of immune selection on the population structure of metabolic genes in pathogenic bacteria |
Room 2 | |
15:00 to 16:00 |
Spiralling patterns in models inspired by bacterial games with cyclic competition |
Room 2 | |
Wednesday 26th November 2014 | |||
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11:00 to 12:15 | 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: Engineering syntrophic exchange in synthetic microbial communities |
Room 1 | |
14:05 to 14:40 |
Plenary Lecture 2: Cooperation and competition in microbial communities |
Room 1 | |
14:40 to 15:15 |
Plenary Lecture 3: Bacterial interactions in synthetic communities and in the wild |
Room 1 | |
15:15 to 15:45 | No Room Required | ||
15:45 to 16:20 | Room 1 | ||
16:20 to 16:55 |
Plenary Lecture 5: Engineering microbial community architecture to set community metabolism |
Room 1 | |
16:55 to 17:10 |
Contributed Talk 1: Synthetic microbial systems as ecosystems simulators |
Room 1 | |
17:10 to 18:00 | Room 1 |
Thursday 27th November 2014 | |||
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09:30 to 10:05 |
Plenary Lecture 6: Metabolic conflicts drive multi-scale organization of microbial activities |
Room 1 | |
10:05 to 10:40 | Room 1 | |
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10:40 to 10:55 |
Contributed Talk 2: Long distance relationships between algae and bacteria |
Room 1 | |
10:55 to 11:25 | No Room Required | ||
11:25 to 11:55 | Room 1 | |
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11:55 to 12:30 |
Plenary Lecture 9: Computation and Polymer Synthesis for Designer Quorum Sensing Behaviour |
Room 1 | |
12:30 to 13:30 | No Room Required | ||
14:00 to 14:35 | Room 1 | |
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14:35 to 15:10 | Room 1 | |
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15:10 to 15:25 | Room 1 | |
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15:25 to 15:55 | No Room Required | ||
15:55 to 16:30 | Room 1 | |
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16:30 to 17:05 |
Plenary Lecture 13: Variability and Alternative Community States in Microbial Communities |
Room 1 | |
17:05 to 17:20 |
Contributed Talk 4: Optimization-based tools for bacterial ecology design |
Room 1 | |
17:20 to 17:35 | Room 1 | |
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19:30 to 22:00 |
Conference Dinner at Cambridge Union Society hosted by Cambridge Dining Co. |
No Room Required |
Friday 28th November 2014 | |||
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09:30 to 10:05 |
Plenary Lecture 14: Ecosystems Biology: from data to control of microbial communities |
Room 1 | |
10:05 to 10:40 | Room 1 | |
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10:40 to 11:25 | No Room Required | ||
11:25 to 11:55 |
Plenary Lecture 16: Managing microbial communities in anaerobic membrane bioreactors |
Room 1 | |
11:55 to 12:30 |
Plenary Lecture 17: Modeling biofilm formation in porous media and fouling in membrane processes |
Room 1 | |
12:30 to 13:30 | No Room Required |
Monday 1st December 2014 | |||
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10:30 to 12:00 | Room 2 |
Wednesday 3rd December 2014 | |||
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16:30 to 17:00 | Discussion Room |
Thursday 4th December 2014 | |||
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13:30 to 13:45 | Room 1 |
Monday 8th December 2014 | |||
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10:30 to 12:00 | Room 2 |
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