| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | THE FUTURE OF MICROBIAL ECOLOGY |
| Discussion Leader: Brendan Bohannon (Stanford University, USA) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:35 pm | Siv Andersson (Uppsala University) & Peg Riley (Yale University)
"Welcome!" |
| 7:35 pm - 8:05 pm | Brendan Bohannon (Stanford University)
"Unity and diversity in ecology" |
| 8:05 pm - 8:15 pm | Discussion |
| 8:15 pm - 8:45 pm | Rita Colwell (University of Maryland)
"Future perspectives in microbial ecology" |
| 8:45 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
| 9:00 pm | Reception |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 8:30 am | Group Photograph |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | GENETIC DIVERSITY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY |
| Discussion Leader: Debra Bessen (Yale University) |
| 9:00 am - 9:10 am | Introduction to session |
| 9:10 am - 9:50 am | Brian Spratt (Imperial College London, UK)
"Sequence-based approaches to bacterial populations and epidemiology" |
| 9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:15 am | Timothy Read (The Institute for Genomic Research, Maryland)
"Comparative genomics of Bacillus anthracis" |
| 11:15 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 12:15 pm | Paul Keim (Northern Arizona University)
"Microbe population analysis during anthrax and plague outbreaks" |
| 12:15 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 | SPECIES, POPULATIONS AND GENOTYPES |
| Discussion Leader: Valeria Souza (University of Mexico) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Introduction to session |
| 7:40 pm - 8:20 pm | Mark Achtman (Max-Planck Institute, Berlin, Germany)
"Each species has its own population genetic structure: Y. pestis versus E. coli versus H. pylori" |
| 8:20 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
| 8:35 pm - 9:15 pm | Fred Cohan (Wesleyan University)
"Concepts of bacterial biodiversity for the age of genomics" |
| 9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | EVOLUTION OF MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES |
| Discussion Leader: David Gordon (Australian National University) |
| 9:00 am - 9:10 am | Introduction to session |
| 9:10 am - 9:50 am | Forest Rohwer (San Diego State University)
"Genomic analyses of aquatic, terrestrial, and human-associated uncultured viral communities" |
| 9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:15 am | Philip Hugenholz (University of California Berkley)
"Population structure of a six-member acid mine drainage community" |
| 11:15 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 12:15 pm | David Gordon (Australian National University)
"Host biology and the distribution and genetic structure of Escherichia coli" |
| 12:15 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 | POPULATION BIOLOGY OF INSECT-BORNE BACTERIA |
| Discussion Leader: Jennifer Wernegreen (Marine Laboratory, Woods Hole) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Introduction to session |
| 7:40 pm - 8:20 pm | Richard Stouthamer (University of California, Riverside)
"Wolbachia symbionts: Their phenotypic effects and interactions between strains" |
| 8:20 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
| 8:35 pm - 9:15 pm | Nancy Moran (University of Arizona)
"Reductive evolution in Buchnera and consequences for function in hosts" |
| 9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | EVOLUTION OF MICROBIAL PATHOGENS |
| Discussion Leader: Claire Fraser (The Institute for Genomic Research, Maryland) |
| 9:00 am - 9:10 am | Introduction to session |
| 9:10 am - 9:40 am | Claire Fraser (The Institute for Genomic Research, Maryland)
"Healing to evolution: Harnessing the microbial genome" |
| 9:40 am - 9:50 am | Discussion |
| 9:50 am - 10:20 am | Julian Parkhill (Sanger Center, Cambridge, UK)
"Genome dynamics of bacterial pathogens" |
| 10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Craig Cummings (Stanford University)
"Microarray-based comparative genomics of the Bordetella respiratory pathogens" |
| 11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
| 11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Allen Rodrigo (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
"Maximum likelihood and Bayesian methods for analyzing the evolution of rapidly evolving pathogens, with a special focus on HIV" |
| 12:15 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 | EVOLUTION OF COLD AND EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE |
| Discussion Leader: Rick Cavicchiolli (University of New South Wales, Australia) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Introduction to session |
| 7:40 pm - 8:20 pm | Kasthuri Venkateswaran (California Institute of Technology)
"What is out there and how "hardy" the microbes associated with spacecraft" |
| 8:20 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
| 8:35 pm - 9:15 pm | Rick Cavicchiolli (University of New South Wales, Australia)
"Cold-adapted archaea: a genome-centric overview" |
| 9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES OF MICROBIAL EVOLUTION |
| Discussion Leader: Frank Rosenzweig (University of Montana) |
| 9:00 am - 9:10 am | Introduction to session |
| 9:10 am - 9:40 am | Frank Rosenzweig (University of Montana)
"A genomic approach to the study of adaptive evolution in yeast" |
| 9:40 am - 9:50 am | Discussion |
| 9:50 am - 10:20 am | Paul Rainey (University of Auckland, NZ, and University of Oxford, UK)
"The evolutionary emergence of co-operation in experimental bacterial populations" |
| 10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Dominique Schneider (Université Joseph Fourier, France)
"Global regulation and fitness during long-term evolution of Escherichia coli populations" |
| 11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
| 11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Benjamin Kerr (Stanford University)
"The role of population structure in experimental microbial microcosms " |
| 12:15 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 | EVOLUTION OF ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE |
| Discussion Leader: Peg Riley (Yale University) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Introduction to session |
| 7:40 pm - 8:25 pm | Dan Andersson (Institute for Disease Control, Stockholm, Sweden)
"How many mutations does it take to make a drug resistant pathogen?" |
| 8:25 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
| 8:35 pm - 9:20 pm | Ben Cooper (Harvard University)
"How antibiotic use affects the transmission and persistence of glycopeptide-resistant enterococci amongst hospitalized patients" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Departure |
