Sunday
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRC Chair
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Emergent Population Dynamics from Interactions Within and Between Cells
7:40 pm - 7:50 pm
Opening Remarks
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm
"Eco-Evolutionary Feedbacks in Space and Time"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm
"Quantifying Microbial Interactions Across Space and Time"
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm
"Emergent Spatial Structure and Phenotypic Composition During Population Migration"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Horizontal Gene Transfer and Plasmid-Host Interactions
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:15 am - 9:40 am
"The Emergence of Neutral Plasmids and Their Contribution to Chromosome Evolution"
9:40 am - 9:50 am
Discussion
9:50 am - 10:15 am
"Genetic Dominance Shapes Horizontal Gene Transfer in Bacteria"
10:15 am - 10:25 am
Discussion
10:25 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:25 am
"The Public Health Implications of Plasmid Transfer: A Case Study in Shigella"
11:25 am - 11:35 am
Discussion
11:35 am - 11:45 am
"A Shared Limiting Resource Leads to Competitive Exclusion in a Cross-Feeding System"
11:45 am - 11:50 am
Discussion
11:50 am - 12:00 pm
"A Microbial Poison that Is Its Own Antidote"
12:00 pm - 12:05 pm
Discussion
12:05 pm - 12:15 pm
"Experimental Evolution of Collective Action Despite Genetic Conflict"
12:15 pm - 12:20 pm
Discussion
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
General Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Coevolutionary Interactions Between Viruses and Host Cells
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:45 pm - 8:10 pm
"Evolutionary Ecology of CRISPR-Cas Immune Systems"
8:10 pm - 8:20 pm
Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:45 pm
"The Multi-Faceted Impacts of Phages in the Plant Phyllosphere: What Can't We Learn from a Test Tube?"
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm
Discussion
8:55 pm - 9:20 pm
"Conditions for the Evolution of Viral Social Behavior"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Group Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Scaling from Ecological Interactions to Microbial Community Dynamics
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:15 am - 9:45 am
"How Identity Information Influences Group Behaviors of a Surface-Crawling Bacterium"
9:45 am - 9:55 am
Discussion
9:55 am - 10:25 am
"The Eco-Evolutionary Stability of Cross-Feeding Communities"
10:25 am - 10:35 am
Discussion
10:35 am - 11:10 am
Coffee Break
11:10 am - 11:40 am
"Building Microbial Communities from the Bottom Up"
11:40 am - 11:50 am
Discussion
11:50 am - 12:20 pm
"Metabolic Rules of Microbial Community Assembly"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Symbiotic Interactions Between Microscopic and Macroscopic Organisms
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:45 pm - 8:10 pm
"Underground Markets in Nitrogen-Fixing Host-Symbiont Transactions"
8:10 pm - 8:20 pm
Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:45 pm
"De Novo Mutations in Human Microbiomes"
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm
Discussion
8:55 pm - 9:20 pm
"Common Ground in Gut Microbiome Assembly"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
From Cancer to Pathogens: Interactions Between Microbial Population Biology and Medicine
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:15 am - 9:45 am
"Barcoding Evolution: Studying the Dynamics of Adaptation in Cancer and Yeast"
9:45 am - 9:55 am
Discussion
9:55 am - 10:25 am
"Steering a Bacterial Pathogen Through the Phenotype Space of Multidrug Resistance"
10:25 am - 10:35 am
Discussion
10:35 am - 11:10 am
Coffee Break
11:10 am - 11:40 am
"The Ordering of Drug Resistance Mutations in HIV: What It Can Teach Us, and How It Is Affected by Spatial Structure"
11:40 am - 11:50 am
Discussion
11:50 am - 12:20 pm
"Heritable Phenotypic Variation and Evolutionary Rescue in the Setting of Static Genotypes"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Business Meeting
Nominations for the Next Vice Chair; Fill in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Interactions Between Microbial Population Biology and the Public
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:40 pm - 8:10 pm
"Making Biology Easier to Engineer"
8:10 pm - 8:20 pm
Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:25 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
8:25 pm - 9:10 pm
"Science Reporting in the Age of Fake News"
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Evolution of Novel Genetic, Functional and Ecological Interactions
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:15 am - 9:45 am
"Genome Evolution After Genetic Code Expansion: How a Redefined Codon Is Recolonized"
9:45 am - 9:55 am
Discussion
9:55 am - 10:25 am
"Seek and Destroy: Laboratory Evolution of Bacteria with a Disrupted Translation Machinery"
10:25 am - 10:35 am
Discussion
10:35 am - 11:10 am
Coffee Break
11:10 am - 11:40 am
"Protein Bistability Initiates a Key Innovation"
11:40 am - 11:50 am
Discussion
11:50 am - 12:20 pm
"Going Round in Order to Get Through: The Evolution of Spherical Cell Shape Can Be Driven by Protozoan Predation"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
The Origin of Higher-Order Interactions in Major Evolutionary Transitions
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:45 pm - 8:10 pm
"Are Bacteria Multicellular Organisms?"
8:10 pm - 8:20 pm
Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:45 pm
"Burkholderia Symbionts Drive the Development of a Mini-Microbiome in Their Social Amoebae Hosts"
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm
Discussion
8:55 pm - 9:20 pm
"Report from the Front Lines of Our Multicellularity LTEE: How Snowflake Yeast Hack Their Way to Tough Multicellular Bodies, Figure out Simple Development, and Evolve Increased Cellular Interdependence"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure