Applications for this meeting must be submitted by June 23, 2013. Please apply early, as some meetings become oversubscribed (full) before this deadline. If the meeting is oversubscribed, it will be stated here. Note: Applications for oversubscribed meetings will only be considered by the Conference Chair if more seats become available due to cancellations.
The Microbial Population Biology Gordon Research Conference will be held in conjunction with the
Microbial Population Biology Gordon Research Seminar. Those interested in attending both meetings must submit an application for the GRS in addition to an application for the GRC. Please refer to the Microbial Population Biology GRS web page for more information.
The 2013 Gordon Conference on Microbial Population Biology will present cutting-edge research on the evolutionary biology of microbial populations and communities. The Conference will feature a wide range of topics, such as experimental evolution, evolutionary medicine, environmental microbiology, mathematical theory, astrobiology, microbiomes and systems biology. Invited speakers represent a variety of scientific disciplines, including genomics, phylogenetics, industrial applications, biochemistry, molecular ecology and genetics, structural biology and synthetic biology. The Conference will bring together a collection of investigators who are at the forefront of their fields, and will provide opportunities for junior scientists and graduate students to present their work in poster format and exchange ideas with leaders in the field. Some poster presenters will be selected for short talks. The Conference features programmed discussion sessions as well as opportunities for informal gatherings in the afternoons and evenings, providing an avenue for interactions among scientists from different disciplines and for cross-disciplinary collaborations in the various research areas represented.
| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in (Office Closed 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm) |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
| 7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | Evolutionary medicine |
| Discussion Leader: Paul Turner (Yale University) |
| 7:40 pm - 8:20 pm | Angela McLean (Oxford University) |
| 8:20 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
| 8:35 pm - 9:15 pm | Andrew Read (Pennsylvania State University)
"How to evolution-proof vaccines and antimicrobial drugs"
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| 9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Systems Biology |
| Discussion Leader: TBA |
| 9:00 am - 9:40 am | Jesse Bloom (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center)
"Stability-mediated epistasis constrains the evolution of an influenza protein"
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| 9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:10 am | Rick Bushman (University of Pennsylvania) |
| 11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Roy Kishony (Harvard University) |
| 12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | CRISPRs |
| Discussion Leader: TBA |
| 7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Rodolphe Barrangou (Danisco USA Inc.) |
| 8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | TBA |
| 9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 8:30 am | Group Photo |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Microbial Population Biology Theory |
| Discussion Leader: TBA |
| 9:00 am - 9:40 am | Lindi Wahl (University of Western Ontario)
"Interface of theory and experiment in microbial evolution: testable predictions generated by theory, and rich new theories inspired by experiment"
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| 9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:10 am | Thierry Emonet (Yale University)
"Trade-offs and phenotypic diversity in bacterial chemotaxis"
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| 11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Claus Wilke (University of Texas at Austin)
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| 12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Industry/Synthetic Biology and Short Talks |
| Discussion Leader: Jamie Bacher (Total Gas & Power Limited) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Timothy Lu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"Synthetic Biology: Fundamentals and Applications"
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| 8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 8:45 pm | TBA (Selected from GRS participants) |
| 8:45 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
| 9:00 pm - 9:15 pm | TBA (Selected from GRS participants) |
| 9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Mutation and Mutation Rates |
| Discussion Leader: TBA |
| 9:00 am - 9:40 am | Tim Cooper (University of Houston)
"Genotype fitness affects the scale and repeatability of mutation network exploration"
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| 9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:10 am | Siobain Duffy (Rutgers University)
"How reasonable is reversibility? Mutational and substitution bias in viruses"
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| 11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 12:10 pm | William Hanage (Harvard University)
"Everythinggene is everywhere, but the environment selects"
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| 12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Environmental Microbiology |
| Discussion Leader: Susanna Remold (University of Louisville) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Susanna Remold (University of Louisville) |
| 8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Martin Polz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
| 9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Interactions, from Genes to Communities |
| Discussion Leader: Zakee Sabree (Ohio State University) |
| 9:00 am - 9:40 am | Joel Sachs (University of California Riverside)
"The evolutionary origins and stability of mutualism in Proteobacteria"
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| 9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:10 am | Zakee Sabree (Ohio State University)
"The Genomic Consequences of Intimate and Ancient Insect-Bacterial Associations"
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| 11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Mark Siegal (New York University)
"Robustness vs. adaptive heterogeneity: lessons from high-throughput phenotyping of budding yeast"
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| 12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Microbes to the Extreme |
| Discussion Leader: Eric Gaucher (Georgia Tech University) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Eric Gaucher (Georgia Tech University)
"Observing adaptation in modern bacteria after replacement of an endogenous gene with its ancient homolog"
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| 7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
| 8:00 pm - 8:30 pm | Rachel Whitaker (University of Illinoi at Urbana Champaign) |
| 8:30 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
| 8:40 pm - 9:20 pm | Victoria Orphan (Caltech) |
| 8:40 pm - 9:20 pm | Discussion |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Departure |
Last Updated: December 5, 2012