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Virtual Symposium Series: Longitudinal Dynamics of the Microbiome
Aug
12

Virtual Symposium Series: Longitudinal Dynamics of the Microbiome

Understanding how and why microbiomes vary over time is crucial for understanding their relationships to their hosts and the environment in which the host resides. In this symposium, we will hear three exciting talks spanning empirical and computational approaches to tackling classifying the longitudinal dynamics of these complex communities. See below for event programme and registration!

Organisers: Sarah Knowles & Amy Sweeny

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Virtual Symposium Programmes

Host specificity of the animal gut microbiome

Zoom: https://unil.zoom.us/j/96982396155

  • Philippe Engel, University of Lausanne

    Keynote: Evolution and ecology of host-specific gut microbiota in social bees

    In this talk I will discuss recent findings from genomic and experimental studies that advance our understand of how gut microbial communities in social bees have evolved.

  • Elizabeth Mallot, Washington University

    Dietary diversity and gut microbial plasticity in platyrrhine monkeys

    In this talk I examine the relative contributions of diet and phylogeny to the gut microbiome of closely related platyrrhine monkeys, and investigate the association between dietary flexibility (or omnivory) on gut microbial diversity.

  • Oren Kolodny, Hebrew University

    Who is the microbiome’s host? And why is it such a mess?

    I’ll present findings regarding fruit-bat microbiome composition which suggest that in certain respects the host, from an ecological perspective, is the bat colony and not merely the individual.

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