This conference discusses fundamental questions of evolution and ecology. It explores the use of model organisms amenable to experimental studies of evolution and ecology. It focuses on unicellular eukaryotic systems, but contains examples from other organisms. Invited speakers were selected to bring expertise from a wide range of topics, including evolutionary theory, computation, ecology, yeast genetics, cell biology, genome and protein evolution, and systems biology. In a stimulating environment with presentations from invited speakers and many speakers selected from submitted abstracts, the meeting’s intention is to communicate ideas across disciplinary borders, to foster interactions between researchers with different expertise, with the intention of addressing and identifying new and emerging fundamental questions of evolution and ecology.
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Eric Alani, Cornell University, USA
Judith Berman, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Guillaume Beslon, INSA-Lyon, France
Jef Boeke, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Michael Desai, Harvard University, USA
Aimee Dudley, Systemsbiol Inst, Seattle, USA
Maitreya Dunham, University of Washington, USA
Hunter Fraser, Stanford University, USA
Audrey Gasch, Universityof Wisconsin, USA
Dan Hartl, Harvard University, USA
Joseph Heitman, Duke University Medical Center, USA
Alexander Johnson, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Laurent Keller, UNIL (Univesrite de Lausanne), Switzerland
Michael Knop, Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie der Universität Heidelberg, Germany
Vassiliki Koufopanaou, Imperial College, United Kingdom
Richard Lenski, Michigan State University, USA
Jun-Yi Leu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, Taiwan
Trudy McMay, N.C. State University, USA
Andrew Murray, Harvard University, USA
Norman Pavelka, Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN), Singapore
Gwenael Piganeau, CNRS, University Pierre and Marie Curie, France
Yitzhak Pilpel, Weismann Institute of Science, Israel
Patricia Pukkila, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Paul Rainey, Massey University, New Zealand
Lars Steinmetz, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
John Taylor
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Kevin Verstrepen, Leuven University, Belgium
