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KITP Program: Coarse-graining Microbial Ecology: from Genes to Physiological Strategies to Communities across Environments
(May 18 - Jun 18, 2026)
Coordinators: Daniel Amor, Martina Dal Bello, Akshit Goyal, and Jacopo Grilli
Scientific Advisors: Terry Hwa and Ned Wingreen

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Time Speaker Title
5/18, 10:30am Coordinators Get-together of participants and informal introduction
5/19, 10:30am Daniel Fisher
Stanford
Why is there so much microbial diversity?[Video][CC]
5/20, 10:30am Alfred Spormann
Stanford
Some Principles of Microbial Metabolism[Video][CC]
5/20, 3:30pm Sergei Maslov
Univ. of Illinois
Crossfeeding Dynamics in Auxotrophic Microbial Communities[Slides][Video][CC]
5/21, 10:30am Abraham Flamholz
Rockefeller Univ.
Microbial ecology motivates a statistical approaches to soil carbon[Video][CC]
5/22, 10:30am Julia Schwartzman
USC
Ecological tradeoffs and the advantages of group formation for marine bacteria[Video][CC]
5/26, 10:30am Silvia De Monte
IBENS
Structured interactions in many-species communities: effects on patterns, ecological and evolutionary dynamics[Video][CC]
5/27, 10:30am Mikhail Tikhonov
Washington Univ., StL
Toward a statistical physics of physiological constraints in microbial [Embargoed]
5/27, 3:30pm Clare Abreu
NYU
Predicting biotic and abiotic effects on fitness in microbial communities[Video][CC]
5/28, 10:30am Otto Cordero
MIT
Genome Evolution[Video][CC]
5/29, 10:30am Michael Manhart
Rutgers
How do ecological interactions between microbes affect mutant fitness?[Video][CC]
6/01, 10:30am Seppe Kuehn
U. Chicago
Metabolic coarse graining of microbiomes[Slides][Video][CC]
6/02, 10:30am Ami Bhatt
Stanford
Toward measuring what matters in microbial genomes[Video][CC]
6/03, 10:30am Leonora Bittleston
Boise St.
Assembly, coexistence, and functional change over time in pitcher plant microbial communities.[Video][CC]
6/04, 10:30am Benjamin Callahan
NC State
Transductomics: Observing the varied DNA carried by virus-like particles in real microbial communities[Slides]
6/05, 10:30am Eric Slessarev
Yale
Coarse graining the soil environment[Video][CC]
6/08, 10:30am Orkun Soyer
Univ. of Warwick
Self-Regulation of Cell Metabolism via Cofactor Dynamics[Video][CC]
6/08, 12:15pm Sergei Maslov
Univ. of Illinois
When Evo Met Eco in Microbial Communities [Video]
KITP Blackboard Lunch
6/09, 10:30am Wenying Shou
UCL
Resource diversity and supply dynamics shape community stability[Video][CC]
6/10, 10:30am Terence Hwa
UCSD
Two short stories: 1) What constraints the ecological niches of the fastest-growing bacterium in the ocean? 2) Resource allocation in starving bacteria[Embargoed]
6/10, 3:30pm Gabriele Micali
IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital
Environmental modulation of cross-feeding interactions[Embargoed]
6/11, 10:30am Ophelia Venturelli
Duke
TBD[Embargoed]
6/12, 10:30am Maria Rebolleda Gomez
UCI
(Some) Ecological consequences of carbon preferences in bacteria[Video][CC]
6/15, 10:30am Erik Van Nimwegen
Univ. of Basel
Physiological Strategies: What do regulatory networks do and how do they evolve?[Video][CC]
6/15, 3:30pm Mehran Kardar
MIT
Spatiotemporal noise stabilizes unbounded diversity in strongly-competitive communities
6/16, 10:30am Matti Gralka
VU Amsterdam
Statistical patterns in microbial metabolic traits reveal biochemical constraints[Video][CC]
6/16, 3:30pm Ophelia Venturelli
Duke
Open Questions
6/17, 10:30am Shaul Pollak
Univ. of Vienna
Ecological constraints on bacterial genome variation
6/17, 3:30pm William Ludington
Johns Hopkins
Organismal interactions in the coevolved Drosophila-gut-microbiome
6/17, 3:30pm William Ludington
Johns Hopkins
Organismal interactions in the coevolved Drosophila-gut-microbiome
6/18, 10:30am Jonas Cremer
Stanford
Towards an Eco-Physiology Framework of Microbial Life: Insights from Escherichia coli in the Human Gut[Embargoed]
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