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Title

Evolving microbial communities

Dates

November 5, 2015

Responsable de l'activité

Jan Roelof van der Meer

Organizer(s)

Sara Mitri, Ambizione fellow, DMF, UNIL

Speakers

Sara Mitri, Prof, DMF, UNIL Nico Boon, Professor, Ghent University, Belgium Karoline Faust, Dr, Department of Microbiology and Immunology , KU, Leuven, Belgium Tal Dagan, Prof. , University of Kiel, Germany Wenying Shou, Dr, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, USA Gregory Velicer, Professor, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland, William Harcombe, University of Minnesota, USA Diane Lawrence, Dr., Edinburgh University, UK

Description

In many environments that are interesting to us as microbiologists, microbes do not live in isolation, but rather in communities composed of many species that interact and co-evolve by adapting to each other. Understanding these communities and disentangling the ecological and evolutionary dynamics within them is vital to controlling ecosystems, such as those in the soil, in our guts, those used to clean pollutants or those infecting patients in hospitals. In this workshop, we will have seven experts from the field of microbial ecology and evolution from around the world, who all take very different approaches to studying questions related to microbial communities.

They will be available to discuss the future of this field with you:

What are the big questions?

How can we address them?

What is the current state-of-the-art?

And what are the next steps forward?

By the end of the workshop it should be clearer to you as a participant how your research can add a building block to the field and get us closer to understanding and controlling complex microbial communities.

Program:

13:00 - 13:30 Welcome and guest introductions

13:30 - 13:45 Who is who -- short interactive session to introduce participants

13:45 - 14:15 Brainstorming for the big questions and methods

14:15 - 15:00 Group work -- write a grant

15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 - 16:00 Presentations

16:00 - 16:30 Round table discussion and Q&A

16:30 - 16:45 Conclusions and wrap-up.

The invited experts will present their work the next day (November 6th) during the DMF Impromptu Symposium.

Registration:

www.joinmeeting.ch.

 

Flyer DMF Impromtu

Location

UNIL Sorge, Biophore, room 2917.2

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Places

20

Deadline for registration 05.11.2015
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