The Simons Foundation held its fourth annual all-day Conference on Theory and Biology.
Agenda
| 8:15 – 9:00 AM |
Breakfast & Check-in |
| 9:00 – 9:10 AM |
Welcome |
| 9:10 – 9:50 AM |
Simon Levin, Princeton University
Collective phenomena, collective motion, and scaling in ecological systems |
| 9:50 – 10:20 AM |
Kalin Vetsigian, University of Wisconsin
Assembly and eco-evolutionary dynamics of communities of antibiotic producing bacteria |
| 10:20 – 11:00 AM |
Break |
| 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM |
James O’Dwyer, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Coarse-graining in Ecology: scaling from small-scale mechanism to large-scale patterns |
| 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM |
Olga Zhaxybayeva, Dartmouth College
On Puzzling Relationship between a Bacterium and its Virus |
| 12:00 – 2:00 PM |
Lunch and Posters |
| 2:00 – 2:30 PM |
Andrew Mugler, Purdue University
Collective sensing by communicating cells |
| 2:30 – 3:00 PM |
Sam Brown, Georgia Tech
Collective decision-making in bacteria |
| 3:00 – 3:30 PM |
Break |
| 3:30 – 4:00 PM |
Vijay Balasubramanian, University of Pennsylvania
Adaptive molecular sensing in the olfactory and immune systems |
| 4:00 – 4:40 PM |
Elena Litchman and Chris Klausmeier,
Michigan State University
Trait-based approaches to community ecology and evolution |
| 4:40 – 5:10 PM |
Jane Kondev, Brandeis University
Building a Proportional Cell: Lessons from Physics |
| 5:10 PM |
Reception |
Speakers