Ecological Dynamics: Emergent Structure and Interactions

Presentations

• A model for disentangling ecological, evolutionary, and environmental drivers of functional organization in microbial ecosystems

  ORAL

  March 18, 2026, 3:30 PM – March 18, 2026, 3:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Mikhail Tikhonov

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

  Authors

  • Mikhail Tikhonov

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

  • Ryan S McGee

    • Washington University in St Louis

  • Mateja Zdravkovic

    • Washington University in St Louis

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• Can trade-offs describe the coarse-grained structures in microbial communities?

  ORAL

  March 18, 2026, 3:42 PM – March 18, 2026, 3:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Ga Ching Lui

    • University of Toronto

  Authors

  • Ga Ching Lui

    • University of Toronto

  • Sidhartha Goyal

    • University of Toronto

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• Learning the mechanism of collective microbial function via random community-media pairing

  ORAL

  March 18, 2026, 3:54 PM – March 18, 2026, 4:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Luoqi Wang

    • Washington University in St. Louis

  Authors

  • Luoqi Wang

    • Washington University in St. Louis

  • Seppe Kuehn

    • University of Chicago

  • Mikhail Tikhonov

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

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• Mechanistic Origins and Properties of Emergent Simplicity

  ORAL

  March 18, 2026, 4:06 PM – March 18, 2026, 4:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Lucas Graham

    • Washington University, St. Louis

  Authors

  • Lucas Graham

    • Washington University, St. Louis

  • Mikhail Tikhonov

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

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• The Allee Effect in Compressible Flows

  ORAL

  March 18, 2026, 4:18 PM – March 18, 2026, 4:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Jonathan Bauermann

    • Harvard University

  Authors

  • Jonathan Bauermann

    • Harvard University

  • Roberto Benzi

    • University of Rome Tor Vergata

  • David R Nelson

    • Harvard
    • Harvard University

  • Federico Toschi

    • Eindhoven University of Technology

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• Plasmid maintenance in multispecies bacterial communities

  ORAL

  March 18, 2026, 4:30 PM – March 18, 2026, 4:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Ivan Lechuga Jimenez

    • University of Southern California

  Authors

  • Ivan Lechuga Jimenez

    • University of Southern California

  • Luis M Davila Munoz

    • University of Southern California

  • James Q Boedicker

    • University of Southern California

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• Spatiotemporal noise stabilizes diversity in strongly-interacting metacommunities

  ORAL

  March 18, 2026, 4:42 PM – March 18, 2026, 4:54 PM

  Publication: A. Al-Hiyasat*, D. Swartz*, Y. Liu, J. Gore, M. Kardar. Spatiotemporal noise stabilizes diversity in strongly-interacting metacommunities. (in preparation). *Equal contribution.

  Presenters

  • Amer Al-Hiyasat

    • MIT
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Amer Al-Hiyasat

    • MIT
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Daniel W Swartz

    • MIT
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Jeffrey Chen Gore

    • MIT
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Mehran Kardar

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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• Robust stabilization of an extinction prone predator-prey environment through invading activity fronts

  ORAL

  March 18, 2026, 4:54 PM – March 18, 2026, 5:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Kenneth Distefano

    • Virginia Tech

  Authors

  • Kenneth Distefano

    • Virginia Tech

  • Uwe Claus Tauber

    • Virginia Tech

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• Dynamics of a rock-scissors-paper community under invasion

  ORAL

  March 18, 2026, 5:06 PM – March 18, 2026, 5:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Wei-Hsiang Lin

    • Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica
    • Academia Sinica

  Authors

  • Nathan Muyinda

    • Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica

  • Hsin-Yao Feng

    • Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica

  • Ritwika Mondal

    • Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica

  • Wei-Hsiang Lin

    • Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica
    • Academia Sinica

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• Abstract Withdrawn

  ORAL · Withdrawn

  March 18, 2026, 5:18 PM – March 18, 2026, 5:30 PM

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• Quantifying Microbial Assembly Rules via Competitive Preference Embeddings

  ORAL

  March 18, 2026, 5:30 PM – March 18, 2026, 5:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Karthik Srinivasan

    • Yale University

  Authors

  • Karthik Srinivasan

    • Yale University

  • Purushottam D Dixit

    • Yale University

  • German Plata

    • Biomedit

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• How Species Heterogeneity and Trophic Structure impact the Diversity-Stability Debate

  ORAL

  March 18, 2026, 5:42 PM – March 18, 2026, 5:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Aalhad A Bhatt

    • Emory University

  Authors

  • Aalhad A Bhatt

    • Emory University

  • Mrinal K Pal

    • The Institute of Mathematical Science

  • Sitabhra Sinha

    • The Institute of Mathematical Science

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• Ecological Communities with Fluctuating Interactions Lead to Universal Power Law

  ORAL

  March 18, 2026, 5:54 PM – March 18, 2026, 6:06 PM

  Publication: Feasibility as a moving target: Fluctuating community interactions lead to heavy-tailed equilibrium distributions

  Presenters

  • Cagatay Eskin

    • University of Notre Dame

  Authors

  • Cagatay Eskin

    • University of Notre Dame

  • Vu A Nguyen

    • University of Notre Dame

  • Dervis C Vural

    • University of Notre Dame

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• Inferring dispersal in connected ecosystems from species abundance datasets

  ORAL

  March 18, 2026, 6:06 PM – March 18, 2026, 6:18 PM

  Publication: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.12.648546v1

  Presenters

  • Eric Jones

    • University of Colorado Colorado Springs

  Authors

  • Eric Jones

    • University of Colorado Colorado Springs

  • Ramis Rafay

    • Simon Fraser University

  • David A Sivak

    • Simon Fraser University

  • Jane Fowler

    • Simon Fraser University

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