2017 Conference on Theory & Biology
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
| Simon Levin | Princeton University |
| Kailin Vetsigian | University of Wisconsin |
| James O’Dwyer | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign |
| Olga Zhaxybayeva | Dartmouth College |
| Andrew Mugler | Purdue University |
| Vijay Balasubramanian | University of Pennsylvania |
| Elena Lichtman | Michigan State University |
| Chris Klausmeier | Michigan State University |
| Jane Kondev | Brandeis University |