2026 Quantitative Microbiology Symposium
2026 Quantitative Microbiology Symposium
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From gene expression to evolutionary dynamics, microbes have been a testing ground for fundamental ideas in biology. Against the backdrop of technological breakthroughs in measurement and computational methods, modern microbial studies have revealed remarkably complex phenomena across scales, calling for increasingly close collaboration between experimental and theoretical approaches.
The annual Quantitative Microbiology Symposium aims to facilitate the exchange of ideas by bringing together leading researchers in the field. Emphasis will be placed on microbial dynamics from the molecular to community level, as well as on quantitative approaches to studying them, including, but not limited to, live-cell imaging, microfluidics, statistical inference, and physical modeling.
Keynote Speakers
Keynote Speakers
Calin Guet
Calin Guet
Institute of Science and Technology Austria
James Locke
James Locke
University of Cambridge
Yuichi Wakamoto
Yuichi Wakamoto
University of Tokyo
Lingchong You
Lingchong You
Duke University
Invited Speakers
Invited Speakers
Chang-Yu Chang
Chang-Yu Chang
Academia Sinica
Jian-Geng Chiou
Jian-Geng Chiou
Academia Sinica
Hsin-Hung David Chou
Hsin-Hung David Chou
National Taiwan University
Keita Kamino
Keita Kamino
Academia Sinica
Po-Ju Ke
Po-Ju Ke
National Taiwan University
Kazuki Nosho
Kazuki Nosho
University of Tokyo
Arisa Oda
Arisa Oda
Tokyo Woman's Christian University
Wei-Hsiang Lin
Wei-Hsiang Lin
Academia Sinica
Mathew Baker
Mathew Baker
University of New South Wales
Andrew Utada
Andrew Utada
University of Tsukuba
Venue
Venue
A134 Auditorium, Agricultural Biotechnological Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Public Transportation:
Public Transportation:
From Taoyuan Airport (TPE):
MRT to HSR Taoyuan station - HSR Nankang station - Local bus (306, 205, 276, S12, 212, 679, S5)
From Taipei Songshan Airport (TSA):
MRT to Taipei Nankang Exhibition Center - Local bus (212, 276, 306, 620, 645, 679, 205, S5, S1, S12)
Agenda
Agenda
Day 1 (May 18th)
Day 1 (May 18th)
8:20 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 9:50 Keynote: James Locke
How the cyanobacterial circadian clock promotes fitness in individual cells
9:50 - 10:15 Matthew Baker
When I move you lose: correlating flagellar motility with microbial weaponry.
10:15 - 10:30 Fumiaki Yokoyama
Single-Cell Analysis of Bacterial Extracellular Vesicle Secretion Using Nano/Microfluidic Platforms
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:25 Hsin-Hong David Chou
Systems Approach to Decoding Bacterial Promoter Function
11:25 - 11:50 Po-Ju Ke
Linking microbial diversity and function: insights from functional coexistence theory
11:50 - 12:05 Jauhar Syauqi
TBD
12:05 - 12:20 Shuichi Nakamura
The key role of thermal fluctuation in high-speed rotation of the bacterial flagellar motor at low load
12:20 - 12:35 Cheng-Hung Chang
Responses of chemotactic drift velocity to ligand concentration switching
12:35 - 13:45 Lunch
13:45 - 14:10 Kazuki Nosho
Multimodal Spatiotemporal Profiling of Bacterial Community Development Using Integrated Transcriptomics and Microscopy
14:10 - 14:35 Keita Kamino
Taming E. coli
14:35 - 14:50 Jean-Baptiste Saulnier
Multiscale analysis of multicellular transitions in the predatory bacterium Myxococcus xanthus
14:50 - 15:05 Martin Robert
Spatio-temporal profile of the Escherichia coli colony biofilm proteome
15:05 - 17:00 Poster Session (Odd Numbers)
17:00 - 17:50 Keynote: Yuichi Wakamoto
Phenotypic adaptation to antibiotic stress through global gene expression remodeling
18:00 - 20:00 Dinner
Day 2 (May 19th)
Day 2 (May 19th)
9:00 - 9:50 Keynote: Caline Guet
Biology of complex promoters
9:50 - 10:15 Andrew Utada
How To Entice Oil-Eating Bacteria to Stay
10:15 - 10:30 Uttam Kumar
How Quorum Sensing Drives Collective Adaptation under Environmental Uncertainty
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:25 Arisa Oda
Latecomer killing: Community responses to glucose depletion in yeast
11:25 - 11:50 Wei-Hsiang Lin
Correlation between ATP and cell growth at the single-cell level
11:50 - 12:05 Kento Nakamura
Quantification of Information Flow by Dual Reporter System and Its Application to Bacterial Chemotaxis
12:05 - 12:20 Genta Chiba
Global propagation of genetic perturbation effects through genome-wide stoichiometry conservation architecture
12:20 - 12:35 Hsiao-Han Chang
Evaluating how the meaning of identical by descent varies with mutation and recombination rates
12:35 - 13:45 Lunch
13:45 - 14:10 Chang-Yu Chang
Unraveling the emergent properties of plant-microbe symbiosis and community assembly
14:10 - 14:35 Jiang-Geng Chiou
Making sense of cell polarity transitions through diffusion-driven phase planes
14:35 - 14:50 Ivan Sigmund
An information-theoretic framework for optimizing the FRET microscopy imaging system
14:50 - 15:05 Shao-Kai Jonathan Huang
TBD
15:05 - 17:00 Poster Session (Even Numbers)
17:00 - 17:50 Keynote: Linchong You
Predictive microbiome engineering
17:50 - 18:00. Closing remark
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Organizers:
Organizers:
Jian-geng Chiou, IPMB, Academia Sinica
Wei-Hsiang Lin, IMB, Academia Sinica
Keita Kamino, IMB, Academia Sinica
Sponsors:
Sponsors:
Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica
Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica
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