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 Staff / Welcome and Introduction from the Chairs
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Antimicrobial Resistance Through Time and Space
7:40 pm - 7:55 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:55 pm - 8:20 pm
"Genetic and Environmental Drivers of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Persistence in the ETI-Treated CF Lung"
8:20 pm - 8:25 pm
Discussion
8:25 pm - 8:50 pm
"Mutation Rate Evolution as a Cause and Consequence of Antimicrobial Therapies"
8:50 pm - 8:55 pm
Discussion
8:55 pm - 9:20 pm
"Non-Antibiotic Selective Pressures on Plasmids"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Structure and Function of Complex Microbial Communities
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:15 am - 9:45 am
"Gut Microbial Community Assembly Across Nutritional Environments"
9:45 am - 9:55 am
Discussion
9:55 am - 10:25 am
"Fundamental Metabolic Strategies of Heterotrophic Bacteria"
10:25 am - 10:35 am
Discussion
10:35 am - 11:05 am
Coffee Break
11:05 am - 11:35 am
"Microbial Interactions Shape Antibiotic Susceptibility in Synthetic Communities"
11:35 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 11:55 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
11:55 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
12:10 pm - 12:15 pm
Discussion
12:15 pm - 12:25 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
12:25 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
Evolution in Biotically Diverse Communities
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:45 pm - 8:10 pm
"Testing Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics with Synthetic Bacterial Communities"
8:10 pm - 8:20 pm
Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:45 pm
"The Ecological Drivers of Rhizobium Evolution in the Wild"
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm
Discussion
8:55 pm - 9:20 pm
"Mapping the Landscape of Intra-Species Competition in Complex Microbial Communities"
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
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:15 am - 9:45 am
"The Orgin of Novel Traits in Cancer"
9:45 am - 9:55 am
Discussion
9:55 am - 10:25 am
"Inverse-Gene-for-Gene Coevolution and Phage Innovations"
10:25 am - 10:35 am
Discussion
10:35 am - 11:05 am
Coffee Break
11:05 am - 11:35 am
"Error as Innovation: How Regulatory Crosstalk can Create Opportunity for the Evolution of Novelty"
11:35 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pm
12:15 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
Innovation and Horizontal Gene Transfer
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:45 pm - 8:10 pm
"Leveraging Plasmid Conjugation for Programmable Microbial Community Composition"
8:10 pm - 8:20 pm
Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:45 pm
"Copy Number Governs the Evolution of Bacterial Plasmids"
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm
Discussion
8:55 pm - 9:20 pm
"Mathematical Models for the Spread of New Alleles on Plasmids: Segregational Drift, Horizontal Transfer, and Plasmid Competition for Cells"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Predicting Pathogen Evolution
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:15 am - 9:45 am
"Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics Limits the Predictability of Evolution"
9:45 am - 9:55 am
Discussion
9:55 am - 10:25 am
"Interpreting Viral Evolution Using Deep Mutational Scanning"
10:25 am - 10:35 am
Discussion
10:35 am - 11:05 am
Coffee Break
11:05 am - 11:35 am
"Viral Evolution Prediction for Public Health Decision Making"
11:35 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pm
"Modeling Pathogen Evolution by Integrating Structure, Multi-Omics, and Evolutionary Analysis of Metagenomes"
12:15 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
Technologies for Microbial Population Biology
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:45 pm - 8:10 pm
"How Evolution Creates a Terrain of Information, and what we can Learn from it"
8:10 pm - 8:20 pm
Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:45 pm
"Learning Molecular and Ecological Function from Bacterial Genomic Data Using Evolutionary Principles"
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm
Discussion
8:55 pm - 9:20 pm
"Measuring Phenotypic Heterogeneity During Bacterial Responses to Antibiotics"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Business Meeting
Nominations for the Next Vice Chair(s); Complete the GRC Evaluation Forms; Election of the Next Vice Chair(s)
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Interactions with Eukaryotic Hosts
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:15 am - 9:45 am
"Utilizing Experimental Evolution to Identify Virulence Mechanisms in Pseudomonas Aeruginosa and Serratia Marcescens"
9:45 am - 9:55 am
Discussion
9:55 am - 10:25 am
"Can Pathogen Ecology and Evolution Within Vertebrate Hosts Explain Wildlife Epidemiology?"
10:25 am - 10:35 am
Discussion
10:35 am - 11:10 am
Coffee Break
11:10 am - 11:40 am
"Mapping ICE Diversity: Mobile Elements in Pandemic Plant Pathogens"
11:40 am - 11:50 am
Discussion
11:50 am - 12:20 pm
"Host Adaptation in Legionellales and co: 2 Billion Years of Experience in Infecting Eukaryotes"
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
Ecological Interactions from Competition to Facilitation
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:45 pm - 8:10 pm
"Fungal-Bacterial Antagonism in Respiratory Infections: Unraveling Mechanisms of Coexistence and Competition"
8:10 pm - 8:20 pm
Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:45 pm
"Microbial Community as a Unit of Selection"
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm
Discussion
8:55 pm - 9:20 pm
"The Impact of Phage and Phage Resistance on Microbial Community Dynamics"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure