Microbial Evolution: theory, simulation and experiment
6-7 May 2015, KU Leuven
Scientific committee: - Kathleen Marchal (UGent)
- Kevin Verstrepen (VIB - KU Leuven)
- Karin Voordeckers (VIB - KU Leuven)
Program
Wednesday 6 May 2015 (Universiteitshallen, Naamsestraat 22, Leuven)
10h00-10h15
Welcome by the scientific committee
GENETIC AND MOLECULAR BASIS OF PHENOTYPIC DIVERSITY
10h15-10h45
Martin Ackermann, ETH Zürich (Switzerland)
An evolutionary perspective on bacterial individuality
10h45-11h15
Susan Rosenberg, Baylor College of Medicine Houston (U.S.A.)
How bacteria regulate mutagenesis and their ability to evolve
11h15-11h45
Coffee break
11h45-12h15
Michael Springer, Harvard Medical School (U.S.A.)
Differences between natural variation and systematic deletion on phenotype
12h15-12h45
Erdal Toprak, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (U.S.A.)
Counting steps in evolution of antibiotic resistance
12h45-14h00
Meet-the-expert lunch
APPROACHES TO STUDY MICROBIAL EVOLUTION
14h00-14h30
Jan Michiels, KU Leuven (Belgium)
Frequency of antibiotic application directs rapid evolutionary adaptation of bacterial
persistence
14h30-15h00
Kathleen Marchal, UGent (Belgium)
Identifying the pathways that drive adaptive evolution in clonal systems
15h00-15h30
Maitreya Dunham, University of Washington (U.S.A.)
Aneuploidy and adaptation in yeast experimental evolution
15h30-16h00
Coffee break
16h00-16h30
Gavin Sherlock, Stanford University (U.S.A.)
Following evolution with high resolution lineage tracking
16h30-17h00
Kevin Verstrepen, VIB – KU Leuven (Belgium)
Creation in evolution - where do new genes come from?
Program
Thursday 7 May 2015 AM (Universiteitshallen, Naamsestraat 22, Leuven)
09h30-10h00
Welcome coffee
EVOLUTION AND ECOLOGY OF MICROBES: THEORY AND EXPERIMENT
10h00-10h30
Ken Wolfe, UCD School of Medicine & Medical Science (Ireland)
Origin and evolution of a reversible DNA rearrangement mechanism: yeast mating-type
switching
10h30-11h00
Gianni Liti, Institute of Research on Cancer and Ageing of Nice (France)
Yeast outbred populations: sequencing millions of unique haplotype combinations under
selection
11h00-11h30
Steven Maere, VIB - UGent (Belgium)
The use of mechanistic genotype-phenotype mapping models to simulate the evolution of
molecular systems
11h30-12h00
Kevin Foster, University of Oxford (U.K.)
Cooperation and competition in microbial communities
12h00-14h00
Meet-the-expert lunch (Alma 2, Van Evenstraat 2C, Leuven)
Thursday 7 May 2015 PM (Auditorium AV 00.17, Parkstraat 49, Leuven)
14h00-14h30
Michael Desai, Harvard University (U.S.A.)
Evolution when selection is pervasive
14h30-15h00
Lars Steinmetz, EMBL Heidelberg (Germany)
Dissecting gene-environment interactions that contribute to the evolution of complex traits in
yeast
15h00-15h30
Richard Lenski, Michigan State University (U.S.A.)
Time travel in experimental evolution