Evolutionary Dynamics III

Presentations

• Mapping history dependence along evolutionary trajectories

  Invited-In-person · Invited

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

  Presenters

  • Caroline Holmes

    • Harvard University

  Authors

  • Caroline Holmes

    • Harvard University

  • Misha Gupta

    • Harvard University

  • Alexandra Poret

  • Shreyas Gopalakrishnan

  • Michael Desai

    • Harvard University

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• Information-Based Evolution of Boolean Networks

  Oral-In-person

  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 Bassler

    • University of Houston

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

  Oral-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Benjamin Machta

    • Yale University

  Authors

  • Benjamin Machta

    • Yale University

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

  Oral-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Yoshiya Matsubara

    • University of Chicago

  Authors

  • Yoshiya Matsubara

    • University of Chicago

  • Leon Zhou

  • Martin Falk

    • University of Chicago

  • Ruby Wen

  • Jack Szostak

  • 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-In-person

  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-In-person

  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-In-person

  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 Bingham

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Peter Yunker

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • William Ratcliff

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

  Oral-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Jake McGrath

    • University of Texas at Austin

  Authors

  • Jake McGrath

    • University of Texas at Austin

  • Colin Johnson

  • José Alvarado

    • University of Texas at Austin

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• Is the Viral Genome Quantum Mechanical?

  Oral-In-person

  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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