Ecological Dynamics: Microbiome Function and Assembly

Presentations

• Bacterial metabolite sharing emerges from a balance between production and uptake

  ORAL · Invited

  March 18, 2026, 12:00 PM – March 18, 2026, 12:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Frederick X De St Pierre Bunbury

    • University of Chicago

  Authors

  • Frederick X De St Pierre Bunbury

    • University of Chicago

  • Sagnik Ghosh

    • Northwestern University

  • Kaylie Scorza

    • University of Chicago

  • Catherine A Pfister

    • University of Chicago

  • Madhav Mani

    • Northwestern University

  • Seppe Kuehn

    • University of Chicago

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• Beyond consumer–resource models: Decoding the natural growth habitats and habits of Escherichia coli to reveal physiological adaptation

  ORAL

  March 18, 2026, 12:36 PM – March 18, 2026, 12:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Jonas Cremer

    • Stanford University

  Authors

  • Jonas Cremer

    • Stanford University

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• Investigating the macroecology of sojourn trajectories in the human gut microbiome

  ORAL

  March 18, 2026, 12:48 PM – March 18, 2026, 1:00 PM

  Publication: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.06.27.661930

  Presenters

  • William Randolph Shoemaker

    • The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics

  Authors

  • William Randolph Shoemaker

    • The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics

  • Jacopo Grilli

    • The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
    • The Abdus Salam ICTP

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• Algal host fitness is enhanced by passively assembled bacterial communities.

  ORAL

  March 18, 2026, 1:00 PM – March 18, 2026, 1:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Rathi P Kannan

    • University of Chicago

  Authors

  • Rathi P Kannan

    • University of Chicago

  • Seppe Kuehn

    • University of Chicago

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• Physiological constrains underlying history-dependent fitness effects in fluctuating environments

  ORAL

  March 18, 2026, 1:12 PM – March 18, 2026, 1:24 PM

  Publication: Shaili Mathur, Alexandra Khristich, Olivia Ghosh, Jean Vila, Clare Abreu, Jonas Cremer, Dmitri Petrov "Physiological constrains underlying history-dependent fitness effects in fluctuating environments". (In preparation)

  Presenters

  • Shaili Mathur

    • Stanford University

  Authors

  • Shaili Mathur

    • Stanford University

  • Olivia M Ghosh

    • Stanford University

  • Alexandra Khristich

    • Stanford University

  • Clare I Abreu

    • Stanford University

  • Jean Vila

    • Stanford University

  • Jonas Cremer

    • Stanford University

  • Dmitri A Petrov

    • Stanford University

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• Selection for toxin production in spatially structured environments increases with growth rate

  ORAL

  March 18, 2026, 1:24 PM – March 18, 2026, 1:36 PM

  Publication: Bisesi AT*, Chacon JM*, Smanski MJ, Kinkel L, Harcombe WR. 2025. Selection for toxin production in spatially structured environments increases with growth rate. ISME J 19: wraf091.

  Presenters

  • Ave Bisesi

    • New York University

  Authors

  • Ave Bisesi

    • New York University

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• Stability Transition and Community Structure Shift of Microbial Communities under Antibiotic Stress

  ORAL

  March 18, 2026, 1:36 PM – March 18, 2026, 1:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Hanyi Li

    • Tsinghua University

  Authors

  • Hanyi Li

    • Tsinghua University

  • Jiliang Hu

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • William Lopes

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Jeffrey Chen Gore

    • MIT
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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• Abstract Withdrawn

  ORAL · Withdrawn

  March 18, 2026, 1:48 PM – March 18, 2026, 2:00 PM

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• Metabolic regimes and low-dimensional dynamics in soil microbiomes

  ORAL

  March 18, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 18, 2026, 2:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Seppe Kuehn

    • University of Chicago

  Authors

  • Seppe Kuehn

    • University of Chicago

  • Madhav Mani

    • Northwestern University

  • Mikhail Tikhonov

    • Washington University, St. Louis
    • Washington University in St. Louis

  • Kyle Crocker

    • University of Chicago

  • Kiseok K Lee

    • The University of Chicago

  • Jocelyn Wang

    • The University of Chicago

  • David R Huggins

    • USDA

  • Siqi Liu

    • Boston University

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• Scaling laws and stochastic constraints in the functional architecture of genomes and ecosystems

  ORAL

  March 18, 2026, 2:12 PM – March 18, 2026, 2:24 PM

  Presenters

  • Emanuele Pigani

    • Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics

  Authors

  • Emanuele Pigani

    • Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics

  • Samir Suweis

    • Università di Padova

  • Sandro Azaele

    • Università di Padova

  • Daniele Iudicone

    • Stazione Zoologica Napoli

  • Davide Bernardi

    • Università di Padova

  • Kobe Simoens

    • Università di Padova

  • Annamaria Bupu

    • SISSA

  • Lorenzo Fant

    • Univerisdad de Granada
    • Istituto nazionale di Oceanografia e Geofisica Sperimentale

  • Jacopo Grilli

    • The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
    • The Abdus Salam ICTP

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• Phylogenetic coherence in microbiome composition across environmental gradients

  ORAL

  March 18, 2026, 2:24 PM – March 18, 2026, 2:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Milena Sri Chakraverti-Wuerthwein

    • University of Chicago

  Authors

  • Milena Sri Chakraverti-Wuerthwein

    • University of Chicago

  • Alissa Domenig

    • University of Chicago

  • Seppe Kuehn

    • University of Chicago

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• Spatial structure promotes microbial resilience to environmental fluctuations

  ORAL

  March 18, 2026, 2:36 PM – March 18, 2026, 2:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Motasem ElGamel

    • University of Pittsburgh

  Authors

  • Motasem ElGamel

    • University of Pittsburgh

  • Andrew Mugler

    • University of Pittsburgh

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