The Impromptu. The topic of the workshop and symposium is: Synthetic ecology: understanding, designing and redirecting microbial communities

29. - 30.11. 2018

Jan Roelof van der Meer

Jan Roelof van der Meer (Department of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne) Sara Mitri (Department of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne)

Kathrin Fenner – Eawag, CH "Contaminant biotransformation in complex microbial communities - Identifying potential causalities through pattern search in chemical and metatranscriptomic information"

Kiran Patil – EMBL Heidelberg, DE "Metabolic and xenobiotic interactions in microbial communities: from milk to gut"

Pauline Scanlan – University College Cork, IR "Combining in vitro models with in vivo studies to better understand the role of bacteriophages as drivers of bacterial diversity in the human gut microbiome"

Mette Burmølle – University of Copenhagen, DK "Interactions and co-adaptation in a four species biofilm community isolated from soil"

Julia Vorholt – ETH Zurich, CH "The leaf microbiota: disassembling and rebuilding to explore plant microbe interactions"

Antonis Chatzinotas - Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, DE "Microbial microcosms in a complex world"

Benedict Borer – ETH Zurich, CH "Bacterial spatial self-organisation in soil: Insights from metabolic network modeling"

The Impromptu 2018 will be comprised of two parts: 1. On Thursday afternoon, there will be a workshop for the students together with a select number of invited international speakers. PhD students will first have the opportunity to briefly present their topics, in 3-5 min. These presentations will be followed by group discussions on the big unresolved questions in the field, and how to address them. After some discussion time, each group will present their roadmap for the way forward. 2. On Friday, the external speakers will present their own research in a more formal setting.

29.11.2018 15:00 - 17:30 Workshop for PhD students 30.11.2018 08:30 Registration and Coffee 09:00 Welcome 09:15 Scientific talks 12:00 Lunch 13:30 Scientific talks 17:00 Apero

UNIL, Biophore - Auditorium

The workshop on 29.11. will be in the Amphipôle building room 359. The symposium on 30.11. will be in the amphitheater of the Biophore. Both venues are on the Dorigny campus, Lausanne, metro line m1, stop: Unil-Sorge

biologie.cuso.ch/microbiologie/activities/

For the symposium:
https://goo.gl/forms/BpnamYeHTqUDnPPP2

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sara.mitri(at)unil(dot)ch

janroelof.vandermeer(at)unil(dot)ch