EMBL Courses and Conferences during the Coronavirus pandemic
With the onsite programme paused, many of our events are now being offered in virtual formats.
Registration is open as usual for many events, with back-up plans in place to move further courses and conferences online as necessary. Registration fees for any events affected by the COVID-19 disruption are fully refundable.
More information for participants of events at EMBL Heidelberg can be found here.
Programme
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To find out the equivalent time zone in your location, enter Berlin, the CEST programme time and your city into the Time Zone Converter.
- All talks will be live-streamed with Q&A sessions after each talk.
- Information on the live stream and access to the discussion platform and digital posters will be provided shortly before the start of the event.
- Digital posters and pre-recorded talks (including e-short talks from Vivian Chen, Timothy Fuqua, Natalia Gabrielli, Michelle Hays, Wenhong Jiang, Gurmeet Kaur, Sergey Kryazhimskiy, Antonio Di Pietro, Vikas Yadav) will be available for registered participants throughout the virtual conference. E-short talk presenters will be available for discussion during the dedicated ‘Meet the Speaker’ sessions.
- Access to the recorded talks will be available for 2 weeks after the start of the event.
The following times are used in the programme below:
- Central European Summer Time (CEST): eg. Berlin, Amsterdam Paris
- Eastern Daylight Time (EDT): eg. New York, Quebec
| Time | Speaker |
|---|---|
| 13:00-13:10 (CEST) 07:00-07:10 (EDT) |
Opening remarks by Gianni Liti |
| 13:10-15:50 (CEST) 07:10-09:50 (EDT) |
Virtual Session 1 - Evolutionary Systems Biology Chair: Gianni Liti |
| 13:10-13:40 (CEST) 07:10-07:40 (EDT) |
Interactions between yeasts and other organisms: are these driven by exaptations or adaptations? |
| 13:40-14:00 (CEST) 07:40-08:00 (EDT) |
Within-gene epistatic selection shapes polymorphism in natural populations of the world’s most variable eukaryotic species |
| 14:00-14:30 (CEST) 08:00-08:30 (EDT) |
Emerging by merging: origin and evolution of hybrid yeast pathogens |
| 14:30-14:50 (CEST) 08:30-08:50 (EDT) |
Multidimensional evolution of biophysical traits in a functionally divergent paralog pair |
| 14:50-15:20 (CEST) 08:50-09:20 (EDT) |
Genomics and the making of biodiversity across the budding yeast subphylum |
| 15:20-15:50 (CEST) 09:20-09:50 (EDT) |
Evolution of post-translational regulation |
| 15:50-16:15 (CEST) 09:50-10:15 (EDT) |
Coffee Break and Meet the Speaker - Session 1: Mat Goddard, Anastasia Stolyarova, Toni Gabaldón, Aaron New, Antonis Rokas, Pedro Beltrao and Gurmeet Kaur |
| 16:15-17:15 (CEST) 10:15-11:15 (EDT) |
Break and Virtual Poster Session 1 (odd numbers) |
| 17:15-19:25 (CEST) 11:15-13:25 (EDT) |
Virtual Session 2 - Systems and Synthetic Biology |
| 17:15-17:45 (CEST) 11:15-11:45 (EDT) |
Fitness Landscapes and the Predictability of Evolution |
| 17:45-18:05 (CEST) 11:45-12:05 (EDT) |
Genes involved in unfolded protein response and chromatin structure buffer the fitness effects of random mutations |
| 18:05-18:35 (CEST) 12:05-12:35 (EDT) |
Exploring organelle evolution through synthetic approaches |
| 18:35-18:55 (CEST) 12:35-12:55 (EDT) |
A roadmap of evolutionary trajectories toward cooperativity between ancient transcriptional regulators |
| 18:55-19:25 (CEST) 12:55-13:25 (EDT) |
Synthetic genetic systems for continuous protein evolution in vivo |
| 19:25-19:50 (CEST) 13:25-13:50 (EDT) |
Coffee Break and Meet the Speaker - Session 2: Claudia Bank, Jens Frickel, Angad Mehta, Kyle Fowler and Chang C. Liu |
|
20:00 - 21:00 (CEST) |
Speed Networking (optional; visit the Slack channel for more details) |
|
End of day 1 - Continued access to digital posters, networking and discussion platforms, pre-recorded talks |
| Time | Speaker |
|---|---|
| 13:00-16:00 (CEST) 07:00-10:00 (EDT) |
Virtual Session 3 - Assembly and Evolution of Microbial Communities |
| 13:00-13:30 (CEST) 07:00-07:30 (EDT) |
Eco-evolutionary dynamics in a small bacterial community |
| 13:30-13:50 (CEST) 07:30-07:50 (EDT) |
Polarization of microbial communities between competitive and cooperative metabolism |
| 13:50-14:20 (CEST) 07:50-08:20 (EDT) |
Evolution of gut bacterial communities |
| 14:20-14:40 (CEST) 08:20-08:40 (EDT) |
Multicellular dynamics and evolution in dense microbial populations |
| 14:40-15:10 (CEST) 08:40-09:10 (EDT) |
The rapid evolution of a new metabolic interaction in cells suffering nutrient-growth dysregulation |
| 15:10-15:30 (CEST) 09:10-09:30 (EDT) |
Spatial structure limits on-person adaptive evolution of a prominent skin commensal Tami Liebermann - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA |
| 15:30-16:00 (CEST) 09:30-10:00 (EDT) |
Ecological interactions in cheese rind communities |
| 16:00-16:25 (CEST) 10:00-10:25 (EDT) |
Coffee Break and Meet the Speaker - Session 3: Rachel Dutton, Daniel Machado, Isabel Gordo, Jona Kayser, Wenying Shou, Tami Lieberman, Sara Mitri, Natalia Gabrielli, Sergey Kryazhimskiy and Vikas Yadav |
| 16:25-17:30 (CEST) 10:25-11:30 (EDT) |
Break and Virtual Poster Session 2 (even numbers) |
| 17:30-18:30 (CEST) 11:30-12:30 (EDT) |
Virtual Session 4 - Assembly and Evolution of Microbial Communities (continued) |
| 17:30-18:30 (CEST) 11:30-12:30 (EDT) |
Roundtable discussion with Jun-Yi (moderator), Maitreya Dunham, Isabel Gordo, Gianni Liti and Nassos Typas |
| 18:30-18:55 (CEST) 12:30-12:55 (EDT) |
Coffee Break and Meet the Speaker - Session 4: Jun-Yi Leu, Maitreya Dunham, Isabel Gordo, Gianni Liti and Nassos Typas |
|
19:15 - 20:15 (CEST) |
Virtual Bar Mixer (optional; visit the Slack channel for more details) |
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End of day 2 - Continued access to digital posters, networking and discussion platforms, pre-recorded talks |
| Time | Speaker |
|---|---|
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11:30-12:30 (CEST) |
Career Development Session (optional; visit the Slack channel for more details) |
| 13:00-15:40 (CEST) 07:00-09:40 (EDT) |
Virtual Session 5 - Experimental Evolution Chair: Jun-Yi Leu |
| 13:00-13:30 (CEST) 07:00-07:30 (EDT) |
Learning from synthetic genomic applications in yeast |
| 13:30-13:50 (CEST) 07:30-07:50 (EDT) |
Probing the impact of drugs on in vitro gut microbial communities |
| 13:50-14:20 (CEST) 07:50-08:20 (EDT) |
Experimental evolution to understand microbial response to climate change |
| 14:20-14:40 (CEST) 08:20-08:40 (EDT) |
Genomic stability and adaptation of beer brewing yeasts during serial repitching in the brewery |
| 14:40-15:10 (CEST) 08:40-09:10 (EDT) |
Characterization of transient hypermutator cell subpopulations in yeast colonies |
| 15:10-15:40 (CEST) 09:10-09:40 (EDT) |
Expanding the Synthetic Capabilities of Yeast Virginia Cornish - Columbia University, USA |
| 15:40-16:05 (CEST) 09:40-10:05 (EDT) |
Coffee Break and Meet the Speaker - Session 5: Lars Steinmetz, Sarela Garcia-Santamarina, Sinead Collins, Christopher Large, Gilles Fischer, Virginia Cornish, Vivian Chen, Antonio Di Pietro, Timothy Fuqua and Wenhong Jiang |
| 16:05-17:00 (CEST) 10:05-11:00 (EDT) |
Break and Virtual Poster Session 3 (odd and even numbers) |
| 17:00-19:30 (CEST) 11:00-13:30 (EDT) |
Virtual Session 6 - Evolution of Complex Traits |
| 17:00-17:30 (CEST) 11:00-11:30 (EDT) |
Species-wide survey of genetic complexity and phenotypic expressivity of traits in yeast |
| 17:30-17:50 (CEST) 11:30-11:50 (EDT) |
A yeast living ancestor reveals the origin of genomic introgressions |
| 17:50-18:20 (CEST) 11:50-12:20 (EDT) |
Saccharomyces cerevisiae: a journey from the insect gut to the lab bench |
| 18:20-18:40 (CEST) 12:20-12:40 (EDT) |
A high frequency mutation-independent mechanism of drug resistance |
| 18:40-19:10 (CEST) 12:40-13:10 (EDT) |
Multiple convergent events of mating-type loci linkage through different rearrangements |
| 19:10-19:40 (CEST) 13:10-13:40 (EDT) |
Databasing, Analyzing, and Leveraging Laboratory Evolution Data for Systems and Synthetic Biology, ALEdb |
| 19:40-19:50 (CEST) 13:40-13:50 (EDT) |
Closing remarks by Kiran Patil |
| 19:50-20:15 (CEST) 13:50-14:15 (EDT) |
Coffee Break and Meet the Speaker - Session 6: Joseph Schacherer, Melania Jennifer D'Angiolo, Irene Stefanini, Jing Lin Xie, Tatiana Giraud, Adam Feist and Michelle Hays |
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End of day 3 - Continued access to digital posters, networking and discussion platforms, pre-recorded talks |