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Irreversible Processes in Ecological Evolution

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Tuesday, January 29, 2019
8:15 am - 8:45 am Day 1 Continental Breakfast (outside SFI Noyce Conference Room)
 
8:45 am - 9:15 am Welcome & introduction around the room - Jacopo Grilli (ICTP), Dervis Can Vural (Univ. Notre Dame)
 
9:15 am - 9:30 am Working Group Context Framing - Jacopo Grilli (ICTP) 
 
9:30 am - 10:00 am WG Context under Adaptation, Aging, Arrow of Time project - Amy P Chen (SFI), David Krakauer (SFI)
 
10:00 am - 11:00 am Pathogen diversity and negative frequency-dependent selection: consequences for intervention - Pamela Martinez (Harvard) 
 
11:15 am - 12:15 pm Emergent structure and dynamics in stochastic, open, competitive communities - Annette Ostling (Univ. Michigan) 
 
12:15 pm - 12:45 pm Open discussion & reflection time I
 
12:45 pm - 1:30 pm Day 1 Lunch (outside SFI Noyce Conference Room)
 
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm Natural selection, population cycles, and climate change in forest insects - Greg Dwyer (Univ. Chicago)
 
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm Cooperative growth and cell-cell aggregation in marine bacteria - Otto Cordero (MIT)
 
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm Day 1 PM Break
 
3:45 pm - 4:45 pm Statistical mechanics of microbiomes - Robert Marsland (Boston Univ.) Download Presentation (Encrypted)
 
4:45 pm - 5:15 pm Open discussion & reflection time II
 
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
8:15 am - 8:45 am Day 2 Continental Breakfast (outside SFI Noyce Conference Room)
 
8:45 am - 9:45 am Phenotypic evolution in the Anthropocene - Priyanga Amarasekare (UCLA) 
 
9:45 am - 10:45 am Irreversible processes in ecological networks - Fernanda Valdovinos (Univ. Michigan) 
 
10:45 am - 11:00 am Day 2 AM Break
 
11:00 am - 12:00 pm Are changes in species interactions and their ecosystem consequences irreversible? - Samraat Pawar (Imperial College London) 
 
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm Open discussion & reflection time III
 
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Day 2 Lunch (outside SFI Noyce Conference Room)
 
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm Higher-order interactions, stability across timescales, and macroecological patterns - Jacopo Grilli (ICTP) Download Presentation
 
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm Population genetics of low-probability transitions - Stephen Proulx (UCSB) 
 
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm Day 2 PM Break
 
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm Day 2 Reflection time
 
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm Day 2 Open discussion
 
Thursday, January 31, 2019
8:15 am - 8:45 am Day 3 Continental Breakfast (outside SFI Noyce Conference Room)
 
8:45 am - 9:45 am Cooperation and specialization in dynamic fluids - Dervis Can Vural (Univ. Notre Dame) Download Presentation
 
9:45 am - 10:00 am Day 3 Reflection time
 
10:00 am - 10:15 am Day 3 AM Break
 
10:15 am - 10:45 am Collaborative Platform Work Time: references, reference note, presentation upload, additional reflection & commenting on each other’s reflection
 
10:45 am - 12:00 pm Day 3 Open discussion
 
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Day 3 Lunch (outside SFI Noyce Conference Room); Adjourn




  • Resources
  • A communal catalogue reveals Earth's multiscale microbial diversity
  • Adaptive foraging allows the maintenance of biodiversity of pollination networks
  • Available energy fluxes drive a transition in the diversity, stability, and functional structure of microbial communities
  • Correlation between interaction strengths drives stability in large ecological networks
  • Differential and enhanced response to climate forcing in diarrheal disease due to rotavirus across a megacity of the developing world
  • Eco-Evolutionary Theory and Insect Outbreaks
  • Effects of host heterogeneity on pathogen diversity and evolution
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