All talks will be in the InStem 150-seater auditorium (click here for a map)

Time/Date Feb 3rd, Mon Feb 4th, Tue Feb 5th, Wed
8:30-9:00 Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast
9:00-9:30 Breakfast/Registration Breakfast Breakfast
9:30-10:00 Sine Svenningsen Christian Kost Mariana Benitez
10:00-10:30 Pete Greenberg Sandeep Krishna Namiko Mitarai
10:30-11:00 Tea/coffee/registration Tea/coffee Tea/coffee
11:00-11:30 Tea/coffee Tea/coffee Tea/coffee
11:30-12:00 Chris Thompson Wenying Shou (chalk talk) Vidyanand Nanjundiah
12:00-12:20 Sarahi Garcia Chalk talk continues Sriram Varahan
12:20-12:40 Glen D'Souza Rupali Sathe Ratnasri K
12:40-1:00 Emilie Søndberg Laasya Samhita Yuka Shirokawa
1:00-2:00 Lunch Lunch Lunch
2:00-3:30 Poster session Poster session Poster session
3:30-4:00 Sunil Laxman Paul Rainey Sigal Ben-Yehuda
4:00-4:30 David Johnson Silvia de Monte Punyasloke Bhaduray
4:30-5:00 Samay Pande Mohit Jolly Kiran Patil
5:00-5:30 Tea/coffee Tea/coffee Tea/Coffee + Closing
5:30-6:00 P. Jayadeva Bhat Varsha Singh  
6:00-6:30 Supreet Saini Satoshi Sawai  
6:30-7:00 Free Free (Campus cultural event)
7:00-9:00 Beverages followed by dinner Beverages followed by dinner

Monday, February 3rd

1

Sine Lo Svenningsen (University of Copenhagen)

Bacterial control of phage susceptibility and prophage induction by cell-to-cell signaling

2

E Peter Greenberg (University of Washington)

Mechanisms behind the math: quorum sensing control of bacterial cooperation

3

Chris Thompson (University College London)

Symmetry breaking, strategic decision making and fair division of labour

4

Sarahi L. Garcia (Stockholm University)

Model microbial communities: Understand niches, interactions and functional redundancy

5

Glen D'Souza (ETH-Zurich)

Environmental nutrient composition dictates solitary to collective behavioural transitions in bacterial populations

6

Emilie Søndberg (University of Copenhagen)

TBA

7

Sunil Laxman (Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Bangalore)

Metabolic constraints determining phenotypic heterogeneity and specialized cell states across space

8

Jan-Hendrik Hofmeyr (Stellenbosch University)

From mushrooms to isolas: surprising behaviour in a simple biosynthetic system subject to end-product inhibition

9

Kiran Raosaheb Patil (European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg)

Polarization of microbial communities between competitive and cooperative metabolism

10

P. Jayadev Bhat (Indian Instittue of Technology, Bombay)

Melibiose utilisation in S. cerevisiae is a co-operative enterprise

11

Supreet Saini (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay)

Study of metabolic cooperation, and its impact on speciation in yeast

Tuesday, February 4th
12

Christian Kost (Osnabrück University)

 Emergence of a multicellular life cycle speeds up evolution

13

Sandeep Krishna (National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore)

The chemical basis of metabolic interdependence

14

Wenying Shou (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle)

Artificial selection of microbial communities

15

Rupali Sathe (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune)

A community approach to vitamin B1 biosynthesis

16

Laasya Samhita (National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore)

The evolutionary potential of translation errors

17

Paul Rainey (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön)

Ecological scaffolding and the evolution of individuality

18

Silvia De Monte (École NormaleSupérieure, Paris)

Heterogeneity in cell motility and the evolutionary emergence of aggregative multicellular life cycles

19

Mohit Kumar Jolly (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)

Communication and Cooperation in Clusters of Circulating Tumour Cells: The Key Drivers of Metastasis

20

Varsha Singh (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)

Foraging signal drives swarming in populations of starving bacteria

21

Satoshi Sawai (University of Tokyo)

Collective migration in the parallel world

Wednesday, February 5th 

22

Mariana Benítez (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City)

Cellular differentiation and coexistence in bacterial multicellular aggregates

23

Namiko Mitarai (Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen)

Persistent coexistence of spatially distributed bacteria and phage

24

Vidyanand Nanjundiah (Centre for Human Genetics, Bangalore)

Many roads lead to Rome: microbial heterogeneity and group living

25

Sriram Varahan (Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine, Bangalore)

TBA

26

Ratnasri K (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)

TBA

27

Yuka Shirokawa (University of Tokyo)

Cell fate determination in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum penalizes precocious reversion to solitary growth

28

Sigal Ben-Yehuda (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Bacterial nanotubes: conduits for intercellular molecular trafficking

29

Punyasloke Bhadury (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata)

Biogeochemical cycling in coastal oceans- the role of ‘specialized’ bacterioplankton
30 Samay Pande (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)

Cooperation and cheating among germinating spores 

31

David R Johnson (Eawag - Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science & Technology, Dübendorf)

Bifurcations and the creation of pattern diversity during microbial spatial self-organization