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.
B1 Auditorium, Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
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)
8:20 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 9:10 Opening Remarks
9:15 - 10:05 Victor Sourjik
Physics meets physiology: strategies of bacterial resource investment into swimming motility
10:05 - 10:25 Coffee Break
10:25 - 11:15 Gene-Wei Li
Understanding the grammar of bacterial genes
11:15-11:45 Matthew Baker
Easy come easy go: tracking the loss and gain of motility across the tree of life.
11:45 - 14:00 Lunch | Poster Session
14:00 - 14:50 Namiko Mitarai
Impact of Aggregates and Spatial Structure on Phage-Bacteria Coexistence
14:50-15:20 Keita Kamino
Do chemotaxing E. coli count individual molecules?
15:20 - 15:50 Coffee Break
15:50 -16:40 Greg Huber
Viral locomotion at cell surfaces: how influenza-A surfs over host defenses
16:40 -17:10 Hong-Yan Shih
Emergence of collective coevolution in microbial ecosystems from eco-evolutionary feedback
9:00 - 9:50 Fangwei Si
How do bacterial cells manage the membrane space
9:50 - 10:20 Wei-Hsiang Lin
Single-cell ATP dynamics in E. coli
10:20 - 10:40 Coffee Break
10:40 - 11:30 Yilin Wu
Emergent mechanics in bacterial communities
11:30-12:00 Chien-Jung Lo
Decoding Bacterial Motility: From Swimming States to Patterns and Chemotactic Strategies
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch | Poster Session
14:00 - 14:50 Enrique Rojas
Physical Mechanisms Governing Bacterial Shape Homeostasis
14:50-15:20 Jian-geng Chiou
Collective patterning in Bacillus subtilis biofilm development
15:20 - 15:50 Coffee Break
15:50 -16:40 Andrew Utada
Oil-eating bacteria are more efficient lying down
16:40 -17:10 Yu-Ling Shih
Does the shape of MinD concentration gradient during oscillations matter in living Escherichia coli?
17:10 - 17:20 Closing remarks
Jian-geng Chou, IPMB, Academia Sinica
Wei-Hsiang Lin, IMB, Academia Sinica
Keita Kamino, IMB, Academia Sinica
Hong-Yan Shih, IOP, Academia Sinica
Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica
Insitute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica
Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica