Symposium rEvolution: Transcending the Past Marc 12-13 at Stanford

[Dmitri Petrov]

Dear All--

It is my pleasure to invite you to come to the BioX symposium
rEvolution: Transcending the Past that Daniel Fisher, Alfred Spormann,
Steve Quake, and I have put together. The symposium is this coming
Monday and Tuesday and will take place in the Clark Auditorium at
Stanford (http://biox.stanford.edu/clark/directions.html). The list of
speakers is quite illustrious and there will be time for discussions.

Dmitri

Final program is below

Monday March 12

8:45 Registration
9:00-9:15: Welcome and introduction: Daniel Fisher
9:15 -10:15 Richard Lenski, Michigan State University
"Repeatability, Contingency, and Novelty: Findings from Two
Evolution Experiments"
10:15-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-11:30 Martin Ackermann, ETH Zurich
"An Evolutionary Perspective on Bacterial Individuality"

11:30-1:00 Lunch at Nexus

1:00-1:15 Introductory comments on evolution at Stanford: Marcus
Feldman:
1:15-2:15 Scott Boyd, Stanford
"Lymphocyte Responses to Vaccination and Infection"
2:15-3:15 Karla Kirkegaard, Stanford
"Suppressing Diversity and Restricting Spread in RNA Viruses"
3:15-3:45 Coffee break
3:45-4:45 Carlo Maley, UCSF
"Recent Surprises in the Evolutionary Dynamics of Neoplastic
Progression to Cancer"
4:45-5:30 General discussion

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Tuesday March 13

9:00-9:15: Introductory comments on technological developments:
Stephen Quake
9:15-10:15 Michael Desai, Harvard
"The SABRmetric Approach to Experimental Evolution"
10:15-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-11:30 Jerome Bibette, ESPCI, Paris
"Bacterial Phenotypic Diversity Probed by Inoculum Miniaturization
in Millifluidic Systems"

11:30-1:00 lunch at Nexus

Talks by Stanford students/postdocs

1:00-1:30 Russell Monds
"Synergy Between Experimental Evolution and Cell Biology: New Insight
into Mechanisms of Morphogenesis"

1:30-2:00 Benjamin Callahan:
"The Role of Niche Construction in the Evolution of Microbial
Communities"

2:00-2:30 Paul J. McMurdie II
"Evolution of Dehalococcoides, an Unusual Microbe"

2:30-3:00 Alan Bergland
"Genomic Evidence for Natural Selection and Adaptation on Seasonal
Time Scales in Drosophila Melanogaster"

3:00-3:30 Coffee Break

3:30-4:00 Christopher Vollmers
"Improving Accuracy and Throughput of Antibody Repertoire Sequencing"

4:00-4:30 Dan Kvitek
"Using Whole-Population Sequencing to Investigate the Evolutionary
Dynamics of Parallel Adaptation"

4:30-5:00 Sasha Levy:
"Lineage Tracking in Yeast by Sequencing of Random Barcodes"

5:00-5:30 General discussion