March 2025

This meeting took place on March 7 2025 in Amsterdam. We had over 90 participants in a back-to-back meeting with the Netherlands Association for Viral Ecology.

Arrival + Coffee

9:30-10:00

Session 1

10:00-10:20

Xiu Jia, Jena

When river meet the sea: bacterial community dynamics after coalescence

10:20-10:40

Gonçalo Piedade, Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development

Antimicrobial resistance in early childhood microbiome in low-resource settings: the influence of antibiotic, vaccines, and socioeconomic factors in a longitudinal Zambian cohort

10:40-11:00

Johannes Björk, University Medical Center Groningen

Universal gut microbial relationships in the gut microbiome of wild baboons

11:00-11:20

Marjolein Bruijning, University of Amsterdam

Modelling the evolution of host-microbe interactions

Coffee break

11:20-11:35

Session 2

11:35-11:55

José Luis López Arcondo, Jena

Codon usage co-optimization across bacterial taxa suggests a fined-tuned expression code

11:55-12:15

Pavlo Hrab, Wageningen

Global biosynthetic potential of the phylum Acidobacteriota

12:15-12:45

Rinke van Tatenhove & Sagarika Govindaraju, Delft

Deciphering interactions in microbial consortia using microbead sorting

Lunch with posters

12:45-14:00

Session 3

14:00-14:30

Seppe Kuehn, University of Chicago

The structure-function problem in microbial communities

14:30-14:50

Rebeca Gonzalez Cabaleiro, Delft

Mathematical modelling in microbial community engineering

14:50-15:10

Tom Shimizu, AMOLF

A travelling-wave strategy for plant–fungal trade

Coffee break

15:10-15:25

Session 4

15:25-15:45

Akos T Kovacs, Leiden

Predicting ecology: Taxonomy of Pseudomonas spp determines interactions with Bacillus

15:45-16:05

Timmy Paez Watson, Delft

Optimal microbial strategies in dynamic, cyclic environments: optimisation targets selection and experimental validation.

16:05-16:25

Pranas Grigaitis, VU Amsterdam

Cells within cells: host-endosymbiont cooperation and conflict in insects

Drinks sponsored by AIMMS with Posters & Networking

16:25 - 

Dinner

18:00 -