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KITP Program: Cooperation and the Evolution of Multicellularity (Jan 7 - Mar 15, 2013)
Coordinators: David Bensimon, Cassandra Extavour, Greg Huber, Rick Michod

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Time Speaker Title
1/08, 10:00 a.m. All Organizational Meeting
1/07, 10:45 a.m. Marty Einhorn
KITP Deputy Director
What's a Wiki Good For?[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
1/08, 1:30 p.m. Mogens Jensen
NBI & KITP
Coupled Oscillators in Biology[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
1/10, 10:00 a.m. Nicolas Desprat
ENS & KITP
Game Theory in the Study of Cooperation[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
1/10, 1:30 p.m. Michael Doebeli
UBC & KITP
Theoretical perspectives on the problem of cooperation: Part 1[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
1/11, 10:00 a.m. Gyan Bhanot
Rutgers & KITP
Selfish Genes and Evolution of Cooperation[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
1/11, 1:30 p.m. Michael Doebeli
UBC & KITP
Theoretical perspectives on the problem of cooperation: Part 2[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
1/14, 12:15 p.m. Jeff Gore
MIT & KITP
Why Cooperate? From Self Replicators to Human Societies[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
KITP Blackboard Lunch
1/14, 2:30 p.m. All Introduction Meeting for Newcomers[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
1/15, 10:00 a.m. Nicolas Desprat
ENS & KITP
Public Goods in a Spatially Structured Environment[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
1/16, 10:00 a.m. Andrew Murray
Harvard
Multicellularity: Is There A Big Idea?[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
1/16, 1:30 p.m. James Ferrell
Stanford
Bistability, Trigger Waves, and Coupled Oscillators in the Xenopus Embryo[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
1/17, 10:00 a.m. Mimi Koehl
UCB
Evolution of Multicellularity: Fluid Mechanics of Feeding by Unicellular vs. Multicellular Choanoflagellates
1/17, 1:30 p.m. Marcus Roper
UCB
Hydrodynamic Cooperation and a Precursor to Metazoan Multicellularity[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
1/17, 4:00 p.m. David Bensimon
(ENS & KITP)
Birgitta Whaley
(UCB & KITP)
Coherent Control for Biology[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
1/18, 10:00 a.m. Jeff Gore
MIT & KITP
Cooperation, Cheating, and Collapse in Microbial Populations[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
1/18, 1:30 p.m. Peter Swain
Univ. Edinburgh & KITP
Identifying Sources of Variation in Biochemical Networks[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
1/22, 10:00 a.m. All Introduction Meeting for Newcomers[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
1/22, 1:30 p.m. Owen Gilbert
Independent & KITP
A Critical Look at the Field of Microbial Social Evolution[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
1/23, 1:30 p.m. Mike Lynch
Indiana Univ. & KITP
The Evolution of Mutation Rates and the Relevance to Multicellularity[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
1/24, 10:00 a.m. Simone Pigolotti
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya & KITP
Growth, Competition, and Cooperation in Spatial Population Genetics[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
1/24, 1:30 p.m. Federico Toschi
Eindhoven Tech. & KITP
Population Dynamics Under Flow[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
1/25, 10:00 a.m. Erwin Frey
LMU & KITP
Cyclic Dominance in Spatially Extended Populations
1/28, 2:30 p.m. All Introduction Meeting for Newcomers[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
1/29, 10:00 a.m. Joan Strassmann
WUSTL & KITP
Challenges in Multicellularity Solvable With Studies of Social Amoebae[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
1/29, 1:30 p.m. Yoav Soen
Weizmann Inst. & KITP
Epigenesis and Symbiosis: The Dark Matter of Evolution?
1/31, 10:00 a.m. Paul Rainey
NZIAS
Levels and Transitions[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
1/31, 1:30 p.m. David Queller
WUSTL & KITP
Relatedness and the Fraternal Major Transitions[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2/01, 10:00 a.m. Silvia De Monte
ENS & KITP
Group Formation and the Evolution of Microbial "Societies"[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2/04-08 Conference: Cooperation and Major Evolutionary Transitions
2/05, 4:00 p.m. Ray Goldstein
Cambridge Univ.
UCSB Physics Colloquium: Stirring Tails of Evolution[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2/11, 2:30 p.m. All Introduction Meeting for Newcomers
2/12, 10:00 a.m. James Glazier
Indiana Univ. & KITP
Cancer Games and Paradoxes: Simple Simulations of the Somatic Evolution of Behaviors During Solid Tumor Progression[Slides][Podcast][Vid][Aud][Cam]
2/12, 1:30 p.m. James Glazier, Leader
Indiana Univ. & KITP
Discussion: Somatic Evolution[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2/13, 10:00 a.m. David Dingli
Mayo Clinic & KITP
Dynamics of Hematopoiesis and Its Disorders[Slides]
2/14, 10:00 a.m. Avigdor Eldar
Tel Aviv Univ. & KITP
Physical and Evolutionary Considerations in the Design of Bacterial Communication Systems[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2/14, 1:30 p.m. Irene Chen
UCSB
Understanding Biomolecular Design and Evolution
2/15, 10:00 a.m. David Nelson
Harvard & KITP
Competition and Cooperation in Structured Microorganisms[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2/15, 11:00 a.m. Maxim Lavrentovich
Harvard & KITP
Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions and Spatial Population Genetics[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2/19, 10:00 a.m. Arnie Levine
IAS & KITP
The Evolution of the p53 Family of Genes and Their Functions in the Origins of Cancers[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2/19, 1:30 p.m. John Koschwanez
Harvard & KITP
Budding Multicellularity in Yeast[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2/20, 10:00 a.m. Deborah Shelton
Univ. Arizonza & KITP
Intro to the Price Equation[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2/21, 10:00 a.m. Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo
CSIC-UPF & KITP
The Origin Of Metazoan Multicellularity: What Comparative Genomics Is Telling Us And How We Could Go Forward[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2/21, 1:30 p.m. Jorge Pacheco
Univ. Lisboa & KITP
Stochastic Effects in Hematopoiesis[Slides]
2/22, 10:00 a.m. Illés Farkas
Eotvos Univ. & KITP
Can We List Biochemical Behaviors?[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2/25, 2:30 p.m. All Introduction Meeting for Newcomers
2/26, 10:00 a.m. Gabor Balazsi
Univ. Texas & KITP
Evolution Through the Lens of Synthetic Biology[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2/26, 1:30 p.m. Paul Rainey
NZIAS & KITP
Evolution of Stochastic Switches
2/28, 11:00 a.m. James Glazier
Indiana Univ. & KITP
A Brief Introduction to CompuCell3D[Slides][Podcast][Vid][Aud][Cam]
2/28, 1:30 p.m. Clayton Davis
(Indiana Univ. & KITP)
Andras Szabo
(CWI & KITP)
Severine Urdy
(CWI & KITP)
CompuCell3D mini-workshop
3/01, 10:00 a.m. Joseph Zhou
Institute of Systems Biology & KITP
Cancer Attractors and Cancer-cell Population Dynamics[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3/04, 2:30 p.m. All Introductory Meeting
3/05, 10:00 a.m. Cristian Solari
Univ. Buenos Aires & KITP
Evolutionary Ecology of Multicellularity: The Volvocine Green Algae as a Case Study[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3/05, 1:30 p.m. Roeland Merks
CWI & KITP
The Morphogenesis of Branched Tissues[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3/06, 10:00 a.m. Joao Xavier
Sloan-Kettering Inst. & KITP
Experiments in Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Swarming: Bridging Social Evolution and Molecular Mechanism[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3/07, 10:00 a.m. Tommy Angelini
Univ. of Florida & KITP
Biofilms Suck and Epithelial Cells Blow: Forces in Multicellular Systems[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3/07, 1:30 p.m. Liyan Ping
Harvard Univ. & KITP
Division of Labor in a Bacterial Swarm[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3/08, 10:00 a.m. Carl Simpson
NMNH & KITP
The Macroevolution of Individuality[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3/08, 12:15 p.m. Cassandra Extavour
Harvard & KITP
Integrating the Physics and Biology of Cooperation: From Molecules to Super Organisms[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
KITP Blackboard Lunch
3/11, 10:00 a.m. Bradley Olson
KSU & KITP
The genomics of multicellularity in the Volvocales[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3/12, 10:00 a.m. Tom Chou
UCLA & KITP
Physics of self-assembly and sensing[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3/13, 10:00 a.m. Victor Luria
Harvard Med. & KITP
Stochastic decision-making and exploratory behavior in neural and genetic circuits
3/13, 1:30 p.m. Cristian Solari
Univ. Buenos Aires & KITP
The evolution of cellular differentiation in Volvocales part II: Flagellar Mixing and Molecular Transport
3/14 10:00 a.m. Cassandra Extavour
Harvard & KITP
Evolution of genetic and developmental novelty: lessons from animal germ cells[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3/14, 1:30 p.m. Christoph Kirst
MPI & KITP
Information Flow Patterns in Modular Networks of Oscillators
3/15, 10:00 a.m. Chaitanya Gokhale
MPI & KITP
Thinking beyond the Dyad: Multiplayer evolutionary games[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
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