Evolutionary Dynamics III

Presentations

• Mapping history dependence along evolutionary trajectories

  ORAL · Invited

  March 19, 2026, 3:30 PM – March 19, 2026, 4:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Caroline M Holmes

    • Harvard University

  Authors

  • Caroline M Holmes

    • Harvard University

  • Misha Gupta

    • Harvard University

  • Alexandra Poret

    • Harvard University

  • Shreyas Gopalakrishnan

    • Stanford University

  • Michael Desai

    • Harvard University

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• Information-Based Evolution of Boolean Networks

  ORAL

  March 19, 2026, 4:06 PM – March 19, 2026, 4:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Yi-Kai Mo

    • University of Houston

  Authors

  • Yi-Kai Mo

    • University of Houston

  • Kevin E Bassler

    • University of Houston

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• Extracellular vesicles could transmit useful genetic information from somatic cells to the germline

  ORAL

  March 19, 2026, 4:18 PM – March 19, 2026, 4:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Benjamin B Machta

    • Yale University

  Authors

  • Benjamin B Machta

    • Yale University

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• Emergence of a complex unit of selection in an oligomer pool

  ORAL

  March 19, 2026, 4:30 PM – March 19, 2026, 4:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Yoshiya J. Matsubara

    • University of Chicago

  Authors

  • Yoshiya J. Matsubara

    • University of Chicago

  • Leon Zhou

    • University of Chicago

  • Martin J Falk

    • University of Chicago

  • Ruby Wen

    • University of Chicago

  • Jack W Szostak

    • University of Chicago
    • University Of Chicago

  • Arvind Murugan

    • University of Chicago

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• A General Framework for Designing Evolutionary Experiments to Select Specific Phage Phenotypes Using Neural Networks, Statistical Simulations, and Symbolic Regression.

  ORAL

  March 19, 2026, 4:42 PM – March 19, 2026, 4:54 PM

  Publication: H. Alam and D. Fusco, "A General Framework for Designing Evolutionary Experiments to Select Specific Phage Phenotypes Using Neural Networks and Symbolic Regression," manuscript in preparation (expected February 2026).

  Presenters

  • Hassan Alam

    • Univ of Cambridge

  Authors

  • Hassan Alam

    • Univ of Cambridge

  • Diana Fusco

    • Univ of Cambridge

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• Selective Pressures on Cell Size Control

  ORAL

  March 19, 2026, 4:54 PM – March 19, 2026, 5:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Spencer Hobson-Gutierrez

    • New York University (NYU)

  Authors

  • Spencer Hobson-Gutierrez

    • New York University (NYU)

  • Edo Kussell

    • New York University (NYU)

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• Laboratory-evolved multicellular organisms overcome diffusion limit by metabolically-driven flow

  ORAL

  March 19, 2026, 5:06 PM – March 19, 2026, 5:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Makoto Ueki

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Makoto Ueki

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Emma P Bingham

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Peter Yunker

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • William C Ratcliff

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

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• An energetic nonlinearity connects molecular mechanics to evolutionary robustness and adaptation

  ORAL

  March 19, 2026, 5:18 PM – March 19, 2026, 5:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Jake E McGrath

    • University of Texas at Austin

  Authors

  • Jake E McGrath

    • University of Texas at Austin

  • Colin Johnson

    • University of Texas at Austin

  • José R Alvarado

    • University of Texas at Austin

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• Is the Viral Genome Quantum Mechanical?

  ORAL

  March 19, 2026, 5:30 PM – March 19, 2026, 5:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Prosanta Pal

    • Clemson University

  Authors

  • Prosanta Pal

    • Clemson University

  • Ramakrishna Podila

    • Clemson University

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