Ecological Dynamics: Emergent Structure and Interactions

Presentations

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

  Oral-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Mikhail Tikhonov

    • Washington University, St. Louis

  Authors

  • Mikhail Tikhonov

    • Washington University, St. Louis

  • Ryan McGee

  • Mateja Zdravkovic

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

  Oral-In-person

  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-In-person

  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

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• Mechanistic Origins and Properties of Emergent Simplicity

  Oral-In-person

  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

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• The Allee Effect in Compressible Flows

  Oral-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Jonathan Bauermann

    • Harvard University

  Authors

  • Jonathan Bauermann

    • Harvard University

  • Roberto Benzi

  • David Nelson

  • Federico Toschi

    • Eindhoven University of Technology

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• Plasmid maintenance in multispecies bacterial communities

  Oral-In-person

  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 Davila Munoz

    • University of Southern California

  • James Boedicker

    • University of Southern California

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• Spatiotemporal noise stabilizes diversity in strongly-interacting metacommunities

  Oral-In-person

  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

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Amer Al-Hiyasat

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Daniel Swartz

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Jeffrey Gore

    • 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-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Kenneth Distefano

    • Virginia Tech

  Authors

  • Kenneth Distefano

    • Virginia Tech

  • Uwe C. Täuber

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

  Oral-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Wei-Hsiang Lin

    • Academia Sinica

  Authors

  • Nathan Muyinda

  • Hsin-Yao Feng

  • Ritwika Mondal

  • Wei-Hsiang Lin

    • Academia Sinica

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• Robust coexistence in ecological competitive communities

  Oral-In-person · Withdrawn

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

  Publication: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2024/10/22/2024.07.10.602979.full.pdf

  Presenters

  • Pablo Lechon

    • University of Chicago

  Authors

  • Pablo Lechon

    • University of Chicago

  • Srilena Kundu

  • Paula Lemos-Costa

  • Jose A. Capitan

  • Stefano Allesina

    • University of Chicago

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• Quantifying Microbial Assembly Rules via Competitive Preference Embeddings

  Oral-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Karthik Srinivasan

    • Yale University

  Authors

  • Karthik Srinivasan

    • Yale University

  • Purushottam Dixit

    • Yale University

  • German Plata

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

  Oral-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Aalhad Bhatt

    • Emory University

  Authors

  • Aalhad Bhatt

    • Emory University

  • Mrinal Pal

  • Sitabhra Sinha

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• Ecological Communities with Fluctuating Interactions Lead to Universal Power Law

  Oral-In-person

  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 Nguyen

    • University of Notre Dame

  • Dervis Vural

    • University of Notre Dame

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• Inferring dispersal in connected ecosystems from species abundance datasets

  Oral-In-person

  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

  • David Sivak

    • Simon Fraser University

  • Jane Fowler

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