Ecological and Evolutionary Dynamics V

Presentations

• Sequence-affinity landscapes and the evolution of broadly neutralizing anti-influenza antibodies

  ORAL · Invited

  March 17, 2022, 3:00 PM – March 17, 2022, 3:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Michael Desai

    • Harvard

  Authors

  • Michael Desai

    • Harvard

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• Higher accuracy due to higher speeds in copying information

  ORAL

  March 17, 2022, 3:36 PM – March 17, 2022, 3:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Riccardo Ravasio

    • University of Chicago

  Authors

  • Riccardo Ravasio

    • University of Chicago

  • Kabir B Husain

    • University of Chicago

  • Marco Ribezzi-Crivellari

    • ESPCI Paris

  • Arvind Murugan

    • University of Chicago

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• Evolution of mutation rates is determined by short term costs and long term benefits in proofreading polymerases

  ORAL

  March 17, 2022, 3:48 PM – March 17, 2022, 4:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Arvind Murugan

    • University of Chicago

  Authors

  • Vedant Sachdeva

    • University of Chicago

  • Kabir B Husain

    • University of Chicago

  • Riccardo Ravasio

    • University of Chicago

  • Wanqiang Liu

    • University of Chicago

  • Benjamin H Good

    • Stanford Univ
    • Stanford University

  • Arvind Murugan

    • University of Chicago

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• Signatures of an evolutionary capacitor from a high-resolution Luria-Delbruck assay

  ORAL

  March 17, 2022, 4:00 PM – March 17, 2022, 4:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Kabir B Husain

    • University of Chicago

  Authors

  • Kabir B Husain

    • University of Chicago

  • David Pincus

    • University of Chicago

  • Arvind Murugan

    • University of Chicago

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• Inferring epistasis from deep mutational scanning data

  ORAL

  March 17, 2022, 4:12 PM – March 17, 2022, 4:24 PM

  Publication: [1] Sohail, M.S., Louie, R.H., McKay, M.R. and Barton, J.P., 2021. MPL resolves genetic linkage in fitness inference from complex evolutionary histories. Nature Biotechnology, 39(4), pp.472-479.

  Presenters

  • Zhenchen Hong

    • University of California, Riverside

  Authors

  • Zhenchen Hong

    • University of California, Riverside

  • John P Barton

    • University of California, Riverside

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• Dynamics of bacterial recombination in the human gut microbiome

  ORAL

  March 17, 2022, 4:24 PM – March 17, 2022, 4:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Zhiru Liu

    • Stanford University

  Authors

  • Zhiru Liu

    • Stanford University

  • Benjamin H Good

    • Stanford Univ
    • Stanford University

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• Core genes can have higher recombination rates than accessory genes within global microbial populations

  ORAL

  March 17, 2022, 4:36 PM – March 17, 2022, 4:48 PM

  Publication: Asher Preska Steinberg, Mingzhi Lin, Edo Kussell. Core genes can have higher recombination rates than accessory genes within global microbial populations. bioRxiv 2021.09.13.460184; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.09.13.460184

  Presenters

  • Asher Preska Steinberg

    • New York University (NYU)

  Authors

  • Asher Preska Steinberg

    • New York University (NYU)

  • Mingzhi Lin

    • New York University

  • Edo Kussell

    • New York Univ NYU

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• Hybridization driven by selection is a major source of genetic diversity in a natural bacterial population

  ORAL

  March 17, 2022, 4:48 PM – March 17, 2022, 5:00 PM

  Publication: [1] Rosen et al., Science (2015).
  [2] Bhaya et al., ISME J. (2007).

  Presenters

  • Gabriel Birzu

    • Stanford University

  Authors

  • Gabriel Birzu

    • Stanford University

  • Devaki Bhaya

    • Carnegie Institution for Science
    • Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution for Science

  • Daniel S Fisher

    • Stanford University

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• Eco-evolutionary response of complex ecosystems to changing environments

  ORAL

  March 17, 2022, 5:00 PM – March 17, 2022, 5:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Jim Wu

    • Princeton University

  Authors

  • Jim Wu

    • Princeton University

  • David J Schwab

    • The Graduate Center, CUNY

  • Anne-Florence Bitbol

    • Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)

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• Effects of light and nutrients on the growth of algal cells revealed by a microfluidic platform

  ORAL

  March 17, 2022, 5:12 PM – March 17, 2022, 5:24 PM

  Publication: Liu, F., Yazdani, M., Ahner, B.A. and Wu, M., 2020. An array microhabitat device with dual gradients revealed synergistic roles of nitrogen and phosphorous in the growth of microalgae. Lab on a Chip, 20(4), pp.798-805.

  Presenters

  • Fangchen Liu

    • Cornell University

  Authors

  • Fangchen Liu

    • Cornell University

  • Larissa Gaul

    • Cornell University

  • Mohammad Yazdani

    • Cornell University

  • Beth A Ahner

    • Cornell University

  • Mingming Wu

    • Cornell University

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• Acetate inhibits bacterial growth by shrinking the metabolite pool size

  ORAL

  March 17, 2022, 5:24 PM – March 17, 2022, 5:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Brian R Taylor

    • University of California San Diego
    • University of California, San Diego

  Authors

  • Brian R Taylor

    • University of California San Diego
    • University of California, San Diego

  • Vadim Patsalo

    • The Scripps Research Institute

  • Joshua D Rabinowitz

    • Princeton University

  • Yihui Shen

    • Princeton University

  • Terence T Hwa

    • University of California, San Diego
    • UCSD

  • Hiroyuki Okano

    • University of California San Diego

  • James Williamson

    • The Scripps Research Institute

  • Zhongge Zhang

    • University of California San Diego
    • UCSD

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• Population dynamics of mitochondrial genomes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae reveal tightly constrained mutational trajectories and a simple relationship between genome content and replicative fitness

  ORAL

  March 17, 2022, 5:36 PM – March 17, 2022, 5:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Christopher Nunn

    • Univ of Toronto

  Authors

  • Christopher Nunn

    • Univ of Toronto

  • Sidhartha Goyal

    • Univ of Toronto

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• Spontaneous mutations emerge as drivers of de novo gene birth in a minimal evolutionary model

  ORAL

  March 17, 2022, 5:48 PM – March 17, 2022, 6:00 PM

  Publication: Mani, S., & Tlusty, T. (2021). de novo gene birth as an inevitable consequence of adaptive evolution. arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.00824.

  Presenters

  • Somya Mani

    • Institute for Basic Science- Center for Soft and Living Matter

  Authors

  • Somya Mani

    • Institute for Basic Science- Center for Soft and Living Matter

  • Tsvi Tlusty

    • Institute for Basic Science

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