Schedule

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(of general interest,) it's been moved to Thursday Morning || Epistasis on the Adaptive Landscape ||  ||
 * ~ **Week1** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Tue, Jan 4 ||  ||   ||   ||   || Nothing Scheduled ||
 * Wed, Jan 5 || 10:00pm || SSR || **All participants** || //Organizational Meeting// ||  ||
 * || 10:20am || Aud || **Christopher Marx** || //TBA// ||  ||
 * Thu, Jan 6 || 10:00am || Aud || **Rachel Whitaker** || //TBA// ||  ||
 * Fri, Jan 7 || 10:00am || Aud || **Paul Sniegowski** || //TBA// ||  ||
 * || 2:00pm || Aud || Marty Einhorn || //What's a wiki good for?// || (10 min.) ||
 * || 2:15pm || Aud || **@Matt Kane** || //Funding Opportunities for Research in Biological Physics// ||  ||
 * ~ **Week 2** ||~  ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, Jan 10 || 10:00am || Aud || **Jeff Gore** || Cheating andcooperation in Microbes ||  ||
 * Tue, Jan 11 || 10:00am || Aud || **[|Sergey Kryazhimskiy]** || How Does Demography Affect Adaptation? || Joshua Plotkin cannot come this week ||
 * Wed, Jan 12 || 10:00am || Aud || **[|Thane Papke]** || Haloarchaea: Recombination, Outcomes and Mechanism ||  ||
 * Thu, Jan 13 || 10:00am || Aud || **[|Dan Weinreich]** || The Simplest Questions of Adaptation I Know (and perhaps even some answers!) ||  ||
 * Fri, Jan 14 || 10:00am || Aud || **[|Eugene Shakhnovich]** || Evolution on Physics-based Fitness Landscapes: Theory and Experiment ||  ||   ||   ||
 * ~ **Week 3** ||~  ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, Jan 17 ||  ||   ||   || **Martin Luther King's day: No activities are planned** ||   ||
 * Tue, Jan 18 || 10:00am || Aud || **[|Bonnie Bassler]** || Information Processing in Quorum Sensing Circuits ||  ||
 * || 2:00pm || SSR? || **[|Sheri Simmons]** || Diversity in microbial populations in the wild ||  ||
 * Wed, Jan 19 || 10:00am || Aud || **[|Michael Desai]** || Genetic variation and the fate of beneficial mutations in asexual populations ||  ||
 * || 3.45pm || Aud || **[|Namiko Mitarai]** || Choice of Synonymous Codons and Ribosome Traffic ||  ||
 * Thu, Jan 20 || 10:00am || Aud || **[|Kim Sneppen]** || Lessons from phage biology ||  ||
 * || 3:45pm || Aud || **[|Dan Weinreich]** || Tracking Evolutionary Trajectories of Sexual Populations ||  ||
 * ||  || Aud || **[|Michael Lässig]** || Can evolution sense the curvature of fitness landscapes? ||   ||
 * Fri, Jan 21 || **9:30am** || Aud || **[|Arjan De Visser]** || Microbial evolution on empirical fitness landscapes || **Double ticket! Note the hour!** ||
 * || **11:00am** || Aud || **[|Lei-Han Tang]** || Regulation of carbon flow in microbial metabolism ||  ||
 * ~ **Week 4** ||~  ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, Jan 24 || 10:00am || Aud || **[|Lilia Perfeito]** || Fitness landscape of a metabolic pathway ||  ||
 * || 5:00pm || PL ||  || Informal discussion on measurement of fitness ||   ||
 * Tue, Jan 25 || 10:00am || Aud || **[|Erik van Nimwegen]** || Looking for macroscopic laws in the evolution of genotypes and phenotypes ||  ||
 * Wed, Jan 26 || 10:00am || Aud || **[|Joy Bergelson]** || The evolution of gene-for-gene interactions in a plant-pathogen system ||  ||
 * Thu, Jan 27 || **9:30am** || Aud || **[|Martin Weigt]** || Interprotein residue contacts and interaction specificity in bacterial signal transduction || **Double ticket! Note the hour!!** ||
 * || **11:00am** || Aud || **[|Alan Perelson]** || HIV: Data and Models || Title has changed ||
 * Fri, Jan 28 || 10:00am || Aud || **[|Terry Hwa]** || On growth, antibiotic resistance, and evolution ||  ||
 * ~ **Week 5** ||~  ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, Jan 31 || 10:00am || Aud || **[|Ivan Matic]** || [| Environmental tuning of mutation rates] ||  ||
 * Tue, Feb 1 || 10:00am || Aud || **[|Berenike Maier]** || The type IV pilus as a multifunctional bacterial motor ||  ||
 * Wed, Feb 2 || 10:00am || Aud || **[|Isabel Gordo]** || The fitness effects of mutation in Escherichia coli: the good and the bad ||  ||
 * ||  ||   || **[|Ana M. Sousa]** ||   || Due to coincidence with the Special Seminar
 * Thu, Feb 3 || **9:30am** || Aud || **[|Ana M. Sousa]** || Epistasis and compensatory evolution of antibiotic resistance || **Double feature!! Note the hour!!** ||
 * || **11:00am** || Aud || **[|Olivier Tenaillon]** || The bases of convergence in experimental adaptation ||  ||
 * Fri, Feb 4 ||  ||   ||   || **No activities are planned** ||   ||
 * ~ **Week 6** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, Feb 7 || 10:00am || Aud || **[|E. Koonin]** || Tree of Life, Net of Life, Forest of Life - Where are we? ||  ||
 * || 12:15pm || Aud || **TBA** || //Galaxy Clusters:the Crossroads of Astrophysics and Cosmology// || Blackboard Lunch Seminar ||
 * || 3.45pm || Aud? || **[|G. Sherlock]** || Watching Yeast Change: Using Genomics to Understand the Influence of
 * Tue, Feb 8 || 9:30am || Aud || **[|S. Schiffels]** || Emergent neutrality in adaptive genome evolution || **Double feature!! Note the hour!!** ||
 * || 11:00am || Aud || **[|A. Walczak]** || The effects of negative selection on the evolution of linked sites ||  ||
 * Wed, Feb 9 || 9:30am || Aud || **[|C. Schlötterer]** || New-generation Sequencing and the detection of selection in Drosophila and its endosymbionts || **Double feature!! Note the hour!!** ||
 * || 11:15am || Aud || ** [|A. Nour Mohammad] ** || Evolutionary modes of regulatory sequences in eukaryotes ||  ||
 * Thu, Feb 10 || 10:00 am || Aud || ** [|E. Kussell] ** || Age Structure in Bacterial Populations: Paths to Measurements || Title has changed ||
 * || 4:00pm || Aud? || **[|H.Y.Lee]** || Modeling and Quantification of HIV-1 and SIV Intrahost Sequence Evolution ||  ||
 * || 5:00pm || Aud? || **[|JF Fontanari]** || On Cultural Evolution ||  ||
 * Fri, Feb 11 ||  ||   ||   || **No activities are planned** ||   ||
 * ~ **Week 7** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, Feb 14 || 9:30am || Aud || **[|N. Barton]** || Branching processes in population genetics || **Double feature!! Note the hour!!** ||
 * || 10:45am || Aud || **D. Weissman** || The rate of adaptation in large sexual populations ||  ||
 * Tue, Feb 15 || 9:30am || Aud || **[|S. Otto]** || Recombination and the deleterious hitchhiker || **Double feature!! Note the hour!!** ||
 * || 11:00am || Aud || **[|R. Neher]** || Sex, Draft, and Survival ||  ||
 * || 3:4pam || Aud? || **[|N. Goldenfeld]** || Two problems in microbial genome evolution: diversification fronts and the evolution of compositional bias || New entry ||
 * Wed, Feb 16 || 10:00am || Aud || **[|S.F. Elena]** || Experimental evolution of viruses: model systems and questions ||  ||
 * || 3:45pm || Aud? || **[|J. Miller]** || Genome sequence power-laws <=> recombination || New entry ||
 * Thu, Feb 17 || 9:30am || Aud || **[|J.J. Bull]** || Quasispecies and lethal mutagenesis: Concepts and practice || **Double feature!! Note the hour!!** ||
 * || 11:00am || Aud || **[|E. Koonin]** || The Virus World, its evolution, evolution of antiviral defense, and the role of viruses in the evolution of cells ||  ||
 * || 4:00pm || PL ||  || Summary and discussion on recombination, selection and hitchhiking || New entry ||
 * Fri, Feb 18 || 9:30am || Aud || **[|F. Rohwer]** || Virus metagenomics || **Double feature!! Note the hour!!** ||
 * || 11:00am || Aud || **[| S. K. Remold]** || Experimental evolution of host-switching and emergence of new viruses ||  ||
 * ~ **Week 8** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, Feb 21 ||  ||   || **Barry Obama** || //Presidents' Day Holiday// || No regularly scheduled events today. ||
 * Tue, Feb 22 || 10:00am || Aud || **[|P. Turner]** || Robustness and evolvability in the viral world (tentative) ||  ||
 * Wed, Feb 23 || 9:30am || Aud || **[|L. Wahl]** || Three surprising predictions from modeling evolution experiments || **Double feature!! Note the hour!! Title has changed!** ||
 * || 11:00am || Aud || **[|M. Morelli]** || The use of ultradeep sequencing for characterizing viral populations || **New entry** ||
 * || 5:00pm || Aud || **[|C. Wilke]** || Quasispecies vs standard population genetics models || Organized discussion ||
 * Thu, Feb 24 || 10:00am || Aud || **[|A. Perelson]** || How to model a viral infection: //Hepatitis C virus// ||  ||
 * || 3:45pm || Aud || **[|S. Maslov]** || Home Depot model of prokaryotic evolution by horizontal gene transfer ||  ||
 * || 4:45pm || Aud || **[|M. Gerstein]** || Biological network change and evolution ||  ||
 * Fri, Feb 25 || 9:30am || Aud || **[| P. Gerrish]** || Antigenic evolution (tentative) || **Immunity day!! Note the hour!!** ||
 * || 11:00am || Aud || **[|I. Rouzine]** || Within-host dynamics HIV-1 ||  ||
 * || 1:30pm || Aud || **[|A. Weinberger]** || Persisting low-abundance viruses shape microbial-CRISPR based immunity ||  ||


 * ~ **Week 9** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __ Place* __ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ || **Symposium on emergent viruses** ||
 * Mon, Feb 28 || 9:30am || Aud ||  ||   ||   ||
 * || 11:00am || Aud || **[|J. Gog] ** || Simple models for influenza antigenic drift ||  ||
 * || 4:00pm || Aud || **[|M. Lässig] ** || Clonal interference in the evolution of influenza ||  ||
 * Tue, Mar 1st || 9:30am || Aud || **[|M. Fares] ** || Dynamics of a re-emerging virus: //Foot-and-mouth disease virus// || **Double feature!! Note the hour!!** ||
 * || 11:00am || Aud || **[|J. Weitz] ** || //Bacterial fate determination by co-infecting viruses// ||  ||
 * || 4:00pm || Aud || **[|C. Parrish] ** || //Canine parvovirus origin and evolution// ||  ||
 * || 5:00pm || Aud || **[|T. Leitner] ** || //Inferring HIV epidemics from HIV phylogenetics// ||  ||
 * Wed, Mar 2 || 9:30am || Aud || **[|C. Macken] ** || //Evolution of avian influenza A (H5) virus// || **Double feature!! Note the hour!!** ||
 * || 11:00 || Aud || **[|R. Neher] ** || //HIV-1 Intra-host dynamics// ||  ||
 * || 4:00pm || Aud || **[|L. Weinberger] ** || //How Persisting Viruses Overcome Adaptive Immunity// ||  ||
 * || 5:00pm || Aud || MA Fares & SF Elena || //Organized discussion//: What does experimental evolution teach about the evolution of emergent viruses? ||  ||
 * Thu, Mar 3 ||  ||   ||   ||   || **No activities are planned** ||
 * Fri, Mar 4 ||  ||   ||   ||   || **No activities are planned** ||

Mar 8 || 09:30am || Aud || **C. Wilke** || // Biophysical constraints on sequence evolution // || **Starts at 09:30!** || Mar 10 || 09:30am || Aud || **L. Mirny** || Accumulation of deleterious passenger mutations in cancer || **Starts at 09:30!** || // Application of high-throughput genomics to Clostridium difficile evolution and transmission // ||  ||
 * ~ **Week 10** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __ Place* __ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||  ||
 * Mon, Mar 7 || 10:00 am || Aud || **J. de Meaux** || Evolution of flagellin perception in Arabidopsis thaliana and its relatives || **New: starts at 10:00!** ||
 * || 2:00pm || Aud || **B. Mehlig** || Linkage disequilibrium in populations of variable size ||  ||
 * Tue,
 * || 11:00am || Aud || **R. Zorzenon** || //> Tuberculosis and its spreading within and between hosts // ||  ||
 * Wed, Mar 9 || 09:30am || Aud || **S. Sunyaev** || //Selection and migration inside the host: rapid evolution of human JC virus associated with development of PML // || **Starts at 09:30!** ||
 * || 11:00am || Aud || **J. Krug** || Sign epistasis and evolutionary accessibility ||  ||
 * Thu,
 * || 11:000am || Aud || **T. Lawley** ||
 * || 5:00pm || Aud || **S. Lukic** || // Numerical solutions to complex demographic models // ||  ||
 * Fri, Mar 11 ||  ||   ||   ||   || **No formal activities planned** ||
 * Fri, Mar 11 ||  ||   ||   ||   || **No formal activities planned** ||

Mar 15 || 09:30am || Aud || **M. Doebeli** || Adaptive diversification || **Starts at 09:30!** || Mar 17 || 09:30am || Aud || **P. Rainey** || Evolution of bet hedging || **Starts at 09:30!** || ||  ||
 * ~ **Week 11** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __ Place* __ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||  ||
 * Mon, Mar 14 || 09:30 am || Aud || **O. Hallatschek** || Clonal interference in Structured Populations: Long Range Jumps better than Sex || Starts at 09:30! ||
 * || 11:00am || Aud || **D. Nelson** || Competition and cooperation at frontiers ||  ||
 * Tue,
 * || 11:00am || Aud || **I. Nemenman** || //Evolutionary dynamics in heterogeneous environments: three baby steps // ||  ||
 * Wed, Mar 16 || 09:30am || Aud || **V. Mustonen** || <span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Quantifying selective forces from allele frequency time-series data of a yeast population under heat stress || **Starts at 09:30!** ||
 * || 11:00am || Aud || **P. Pennings** || <span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">What determines the rate of evolution of resistance in HIV? ||  ||
 * Thu,
 * || 11:000am || Aud || **J. Xavier** || <span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Conflict and cooperation in microbes
 * || 5:00pm || Aud || **B. Austin** || Falling Uphill: Acceleration of the Emergence of Bacterial Antibiotic Resistance ||  ||
 * Fri, Mar 18 ||  ||   ||   ||   || **No formal activities planned** ||
 * Fri, Mar 18 ||  ||   ||   ||   || **No formal activities planned** ||

Mar 22 || 09:30am || Aud || == D. Brockmann == || == Modelling disease dynamics on a global scale == || **Starts at 09:30!** || Mar 24 ||  ||   ||   ||   || No formal activities planned || ***Aud=Auditorium, SSR=Small Seminar Room, MSR=Main Seminar Room,** **FR=Founders' Room,** **PL=Porthole Lounge** ⬆TOP
 * ~ **Week 12** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __ Place* __ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||  ||
 * Mon, Mar 21 || 10:00am || Aud || **D. Brisson** || Niche diversification and gene-for-gene interactions in a vertebrate-pathogen system ||  ||
 * || 11:30am ||  || **S. Blumberg** || Disentangling the transmission dynamics of human monkeypox and other emerging zoonoses ||   ||
 * Tue,
 * || 11:00am || Aud || **G. Rozhnova** || Stochastic models of infection dynamics ||  ||
 * Wed, Mar 23 || 10:00am || Aud || **F. Rosenzweig** || E unibus plurum: How biodiversity evolves in a simple, homogenous environment ||  ||
 * Thu,