MMEE2024

Mathematical Models in Ecology and Evolution

July 15-18, 2024
Vienna, AUSTRIA
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TALKS / MINI-SYMPOSIUM

List of accepted Talks:

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  1. "Recombination among plasmids boosts their fitness and the spread of antibiotic resistance genes"
    Acacia, Emma

  2. "Growing up and feeling like a loser. Impact of maturation delay on the eco-evolutionary game dynamics in changing environment."
    Argasinski, Krzysztof

  3. "The interaction between overdominant heterosis and hybrid incompatibilities"
    Ayala-Lopez, Julio

  4. "Fitness landscapes for the study of eco-evolutionary dynamics"
    Bank, Claudia

  5. "Spontaneous symmetry breaking between species in large Lotka-Volterra communities"
    Baron, Joseph William

  6. "A diffusion approximation for the joint distribution of population size and allele frequencies"
    Barton, Nick

  7. "A conceptual cancer development model with time-varying extinction threshold: Breast cancer case study"
    Bastian, Frank

  8. "Games and the treatment convexity of cancer"
    Bayer, Peter

  9. "Individual variation and plasticity in tactic use in a producer-scrounger game: a threshold trait model"
    Bharath, Dhanya

  10. "Eco-evolutionary dynamics for finite populations and the noise-induced reversal of selection"
    Bhat, Shikhara

  11. "The Eco-evolutionary Feedback between Cooperative Hunting and Reproductive Skew"
    Borofsky, Talia

  12. "Male-male competition shaping the evolution of differentiated temporal niches"
    Bouinier, Titouan

  13. "Bayesian inference of mixed Gaussian phylogenetic models"
    Brahmantio, Bayu

  14. "Mathematical models for epidemics"
    Britton, Tom

  15. "Promising Directions in Mutualism Theory"
    Bronstein, Judith

  16. "Biological modelling: some average research"
    Broom, Mark

  17. "Genetic composition of supercritical branching populations under power law mutation rates"
    Brouard, Vianney

  18. "Polygenic dynamics underlying the response of quantitative traits to directional selection"
    Bürger, Reinhard

  19. "Social feedback and the adaptive value of information in a dynamic game of divorce"
    Canterbury, Tristan

  20. "Topological puzzles in biology: how structure shapes a system's evolution"
    Carja, Oana

  21. "Bleaching as a result of coral optimization in a changing environment"
    Cavailles, Jerome

  22. "Chemical defenses in nearly all plants eradicate an endemic by any generalist insects. A result obtained by mathematical modeling"
    Chakraborty, Suman

  23. "Population dynamics and games of variable size"
    Chalub, Fabio

  24. "Can we estimate epidemiological parameters of respiratory viruses from prospective household studies ? - Impact of study design"
    Chervet, Sophie

  25. "Bacterial Microcompartments: how dynamic nutritional niches can shape microbial communities"
    Clare, Chania

  26. "The Structural and Dynamic Determinants of Microbial Community Stability"
    Clegg, Thomas

  27. "The evolution of GC-biased gene conversion by means of natural selection"
    Clessin, Augustin

  28. "Evolutionary Dynamics Within and Among Competing Groups"
    Cooney, Daniel

  29. "The gene’s eye-view of quantitative genetics"
    Courau, Philibert

  30. "Multiple mating: a threat?"
    Courtois, Marine

  31. "The evolution of boundedly rational learning in games"
    Couto, Marta

  32. "Antibiotic resistance evolution: Assessing the effect of different drug doses and types"
    Czuppon, Peter

  33. "Exploring the inference potential of species co-occurrence data - From sampling scales to drivers of community assembly"
    Darcy, Sean

  34. "Biased mutation is insufficient to save runaway sexual selection"
    Dashtbali, Mohammadali

  35. "Multilevel selection models for microbiomes"
    de Azevedo-Lopes, Amanda

  36. "The interactive effects of habitat loss, habitat fragmentation, restoration and dispersal capacity on community connectivity"
    de Jager, Monique

  37. "Sharp habitat shifts, evolutionary tipping points and rescue: quantifying the perilous path of a specialist species toward a refugium in a changing environment"
    Dekens, Léonard

  38. "A branching random walk with noisy selection"
    Desmarais, Colin

  39. "Negative frequency-dependence is not a mechanism of coexistence in spatially fragmented populations"
    Devadhasan, Anush

  40. "Adaption through copy number variation of eccDNA in yeast"
    Dewan, Ian

  41. "Random evolutionary games and random polynomials"
    Duong, Hong

  42. "Analyzing the dynamics in defense/counter-defense games among hosts and pathogens"
    Dwivedi, Shalu

  43. "On a neutral host-virus model with applications to HCMV"
    Eichhorn, Raphael

  44. "Fitness valleys and multi-scale analysis in changing environment"
    Esser, Manuel

  45. "Forwards and backwards in spatially heterogeneous populations"
    Etheridge, Alison

  46. "The induction of tipping points due to phenotypic plasticity driven feedback mechanisms"
    Fellows, Benedict

  47. "Kindergarten Model: Approximating Time Delays in Evolutionary Games"
    Fic, Małgorzata

  48. "Generating mutualisms through branching in subdivided populations"
    Flintham, Lewis

  49. "Evolution of aggression in consumer-resource models"
    Galanthay, Theodore

  50. "Genotype dynamics and Haldane’s familial selection"
    Garay, József

  51. "Masting modeling: evolution towards an early phenology to control seed consumers."
    Gastebois, Sabrina

  52. "A general fitness wave framework for adaptive evolution"
    Ged, François

  53. "Conditional cooperation with longer memory"
    Glynatsi, Nikoleta

  54. "Substrate complexity shapes the interactions within microbial consortia: a theoretical study"
    Guseva, Ksenia

  55. "Microfluidic island biogeography"
    Hallatschek, Oskar

  56. "Self-similarity: a new perspective in population genetic models."
    Hernandez Wences, Alejandro

  57. "Efficiency and resilience of cooperation in asymmetric social dilemmas"
    Hilbe, Christian

  58. "Evolution in graph-structured populations"
    Iritani, Ryosuke

  59. "Higher-order interactions and digraph generalisations"
    Iskrzyński, Mateusz

  60. "Collective responses of flocking sheep to a herding dog"
    Jadhav, Vivek

  61. "From friend to foe and back again - Coevolution of partner preference and degree of cooperativeness drives transitions in the mutualism-antagonism continuum"
    Jäger, Felix

  62. "Different fitness interpretations for the same evolutionary model: on Hamilton’s rule, inclusive fitness theory and adaptive dynamics and the connections between them"
    Jansen, Vincent

  63. "Mathematical models of collective behaviours across systems"
    Jhawar, Jitesh

  64. "Assessment of the spread of 7 invasive species under three climate change scenarios in Korea using rule learning of elementary cellular automata"
    Jin, Hong Sung

  65. "Friends without benefits: The evolution of multicellularity in adverse conditions"
    Jorge, Daniel

  66. "The role of phenotypic plasticity in the ecological theatre"
    Kalirad, Ata

  67. "Plant-Soil feedbacks as bimatrix evolutionary games"
    Karagiannis-Axypolitidis, Nikolaos

  68. "Modelling populations with varying population sizes"
    Kern, Musxhu (Julian)

  69. "Stability Landscape Dancing with Memory"
    Khalighi, Moein

  70. "The efficiency of resensitizing CRISPR-encoding plasmids for the treatment of AMR bacteria"
    Kippnich, Johannes

  71. "Optimal sharing in social dilemmas"
    Kleshnina, Maria

  72. "Skewness enables stabilising effect of hierarchy in complex competition networks"
    Koch, Franziska

  73. "Metabolically structured population models: a unifying framework for microbial ecology and evolution"
    Koffel, Thomas

  74. "Modelling the evolution of ectosymbiosis in the context of eukaryogenesis"
    Krishnan, Nandakishor

  75. "The Ideal Free Distribution with travel costs: Migration of blufin tuna"
    Krivan, Vlastimil

  76. "Submodular fitness landscapes"
    Krug, Joachim

  77. "Public Goods and the evolution of strategic altruism"
    Labourel, Florian

  78. "99 years after: modernity and revival of Yule's mathematical theory of evolution"
    Lambert, Amaury

  79. "Optimal removal of host plants to slow the spread of invasive insects"
    Lampert, Adam

  80. "Sparse species interactions reproduce abundance correlation patterns in microbial communities"
    Lampo, Aniello

  81. "Adaptation to biotic versus abiotic change - navigating conflicting selection pressures in competitive communities"
    Leoz, Simon

  82. "Computer Simulation and Mathematical Modeling of the Interactions Between Ecological and Sexual Selection to Reveal the Mechanism of Sympatric Speciation"
    Lin, John

  83. "Disentangling causal evolutionary relationships between sexual selection and parental care"
    Long, Xiaoyan

  84. "Dormancy in urban environments"
    Louvet, Apolline

  85. "Evolutionary emergence of plant and pollinator polymorphisms in consumer-resource mutualism"
    Marcou, Thomas

  86. "Drivers of within- and between-host diversity during stochastic microbial community assembly"
    Marrec, Loïc

  87. "Modelling the spread of senescence"
    Martin, Lucy

  88. "Evolution of cooperation and assortment"
    Martin, Éloi

  89. "Coalescents with Migration in the Moderate Regime"
    Mellis, Sophia-Marie

  90. "What is the niche-space? The exact theory"
    Meszéna, Géza

  91. "Cancer-immune coevolution dictated by antigenic mutation accumulation"
    Morison, Christo

  92. "Towards process-based comparative models for bridging micro and macroevolutionary speciation research"
    Morlon, Helene

  93. "Regime shifts, extinctions and long transients in discrete-time models of population dynamics"
    Morozov, Andrew

  94. "The allele frequency spectrum in a non-equilibrium world"
    Müller-Widmann, Rebekka

  95. "Inferring intrinsic population growth rates and per capita interactions from ecological time-series"
    Nguyen, Phuong

  96. "Stochastic Dynamics of Autonomous and Nonautonomous Transposable Element Interactions in Genomes"
    Omole, Adekanmi Daniel

  97. "A novel approach for developing partial differential equation models of invasive species"
    Osei Bonsu, Kwame

  98. "Mean time to extinction in a fluctuating environment"
    Pande, Jayant

  99. "Branching with selection and mutation : Mutant fitness of Fréchet type"
    Park, Su-Chan

  100. "Evolution of dispersal in metapopulation models"
    Parvinen, Kalle

  101. "What came first: inversions or local adaptation?"
    Peischl, Stephan

  102. "Reconstruction of biological networks from population data"
    Peixoto, Tiago

  103. "On the spread of an infection in a spatially distributed host population with immunity"
    Pokalyuk, Cornelia

  104. "Coevolution of species' range and niche in changing environments"
    Polechová, Jitka

  105. "Ecological inheritance promotes the coexistence of environmental helpers and defectors"
    Prigent, Iris

  106. "The effect of early life experiences on learning in jumping spiders: A reinforcement learning model"
    Rajendra, Dharanish

  107. "Chaos and noise: disorder in population dynamics"
    Ramirez, Maria Alejandra

  108. "A large population mate choice game"
    Ramsey, David Mark

  109. "A model for plant–pollinator interaction with separation of pollen and nectar dynamics"
    Revilla, Tomás

  110. "A model for tree migration constrained by palaeoecological data"
    Robson, Dominic

  111. "Emergence of phenotypic plasticity through epigenetic mechanisms"
    Romero Mujalli, Daniel

  112. "New insights on animal size evolution using an eco-evolutionary model"
    Roy, Shovonlal

  113. "Differences in root architecture increase persistence time in simulated plant communities"
    Salinas, Hugo

  114. "Integrated Indirect Reciprocity and the Evolution of the Open Society"
    Sasaki, Tatsuya

  115. "Evolution of extrachromosomal DNA in non-growing populations"
    Scaramangas, Alan

  116. "The effects of pleiotropy in adaptation"
    Schlötterer, Christian

  117. "From heterosis to reproductive isolation: unravelling the role of genetic interactions in hybrid fitness"
    Schneemann, Hilde

  118. "When should adaptation arise from a highly polygenic response versus few large-effect changes?"
    Sella, Guy

  119. "Evolutionary bet-hedging in structured populations"
    Sharkey, Kieran

  120. "Coexistence in stochastic environments"
    Shnerb, Nadav

  121. "Markov models of sequential decision-making for social animal groups"
    Sigalou, Anna

  122. "Dynamics of signalling games"
    Sigmund, Karl

  123. "Natural death rate drives star graphs from amplifiers to suppressors of natural selection"
    Slyeptsova, Natalya

  124. "Defensive symbiosis - tales from an uneasy alliance"
    Smith, Cameron

  125. "Emergence of multiscale patterns from population diversity of interaction ranges"
    Sontag, Andrei

  126. "On a continuous approach to fixation on graphs with large populations: the star as a paradigm"
    Souza, Max

  127. "Game theory to design evolutionary therapy in non-small cell lung cancer"
    Stankova, Katerina

  128. "Ecological principles for the evolution of communication in collective systems"
    Staps, Merlijn

  129. "The mutational landscape in cancers before and after treatment"
    Stein, Alexander

  130. "Speed and shape of population fronts with density dependent diffusion"
    Stokes, Beth

  131. "Mathematical Preconditions for Existence of the Stock-Recruitment Function"
    Subbey, Sam

  132. "Tandem repeat variation in partially selfing populations"
    Sudbrack, Vitor

  133. "Symbolic regression algorithm sheds light on resource dimensionality in microbial ecology"
    Sun, Anthony

  134. "Low relatedness can drive the evolution of reproductive division of labour"
    Takeuchi, Nobuto

  135. "More is different: the origins of major evolutionary transitions"
    Tarnita, Corina

  136. "Optimal strategies for controlling pathogen outbreaks and pathogen evolution towards virulence"
    Trevenen, Elizabeth

  137. "Towards an Evolutionary Ecology of Bacterial Mobile Genetic Elements"
    Tuffet, Rémi

  138. "Demographic and Evolutionary Consequences of Damage Dynamics in Single-Cell Ageing"
    Tugrul, Murat

  139. "Studying within and between species encephalisation in hominins using phylogenetic comparative methods"
    Venditti, Chris

  140. "Treating tumours early or late?"
    Viossat, Yannick

  141. "The Evolution of Phenotypic Noise"
    Weinreich, Daniel

  142. "Evolution of Multilingual Populations, Its Stable/Unstable Equilibrium, and the Extinction/Coexistence of Languages"
    Wu, Zhijun

  143. "Optimizing disease surveillance in Pteropus Lylei using a mechanistic ecological-epidemiological model"
    Yu, Cherie

  144. "Kinship can hinder cooperation in heterogeneous populations"
    Zhang, Boyu

  145. "The Matthew effect in biology, or: do social insect queens really reverse the fecundity-longevity tradeoff?"
    Zug, Roman

List of accepted Mini-Symposia:

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  1. "Piecewise deterministic Markov processes in ecology and evolution"
    Aguirre, Leonardo

  2. "Expanding theoretical perspectives on senescence"
    Avila, Piret

  3. "Developing more realistic finite population evolutionary models"
    Broom, Mark

  4. "Multilevel Modeling of Eco-evolutionary Dynamics"
    Cooney, Daniel, and Pokalyuk, Cornelia

  5. "Evolutionary Dynamics of Prosocial Behaviours under Incentives"
    Durbac, Calina

  6. "Population Dynamics Across Interacting Networks or Scales"
    Haas, Pierre

  7. "Exploring ecosystem dynamics in a changing world; complexity and stability revisited"
    Lazzari, Paolo, and Mitra, Aditee

  8. "The evolution of genetic architecture"
    Lesaffre, Thomas

  9. "The evolution of life cycles and mating systems"
    Mackintosh, Carl

  10. "Self-organisation in systems of interacting agents"
    Merino-Aceituno, Sara

  11. "Experimental and Modelling Approaches to Understanding Macroecological Patterns"
    Rogers, Tim

  12. "Branching systems as models for structured populations"
    Tourniaire, Julie

List of Posters:

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  1. "Genealogies in multitype frequency-dependent branching processes"
    André, Mathilde

  2. "Multi Strategy Eco Evolutionary Model - Stability Analysis"
    Bedi, Manjyot Singh

  3. "A Fisher-KPP equation with a phenotypic dimension : persistence and spreading speed"
    Boutillon, Nathanaël

  4. "How plastic germination favors plant diversity"
    Daval, Amaël

  5. "The emergence of phylogenetic clusters in stochastic niche communities"
    De, Satavisha

  6. "The two-size Wright-Fisher model"
    Dopmeyer, Hannah

  7. "Modeling Breeding Bird surveys"
    Erard, Adélie

  8. "MIMIC: A Comprehensive Python Package for Simulating, Inferring, and Predicting Microbial Community Interactions"
    Fontanarrosa, Pedro

  9. "SIR model with power-law mutations: recurrent emergence of variants and persistence of the epidemic"
    Grange, Denis

  10. "Evolutionary rescue of niche constructors from habitat-exploiting invaders"
    Longcamp, Alex

  11. "Multiple cost strategies in the Hawk-Dove game under fixed and varying resources"
    Mulchrone, Kieran

  12. "Norms prioritizing good images are likely to maintain cooperation in private indirect reciprocity"
    Okada, Isamu

  13. "Evolution into chaos - implications of the trade-off between transmissibility and immune evasion"
    Sayyar, Golsa

  14. "Coexistence through life history variations in an explicit patch age model"
    Staggs, Jon

  15. "Exploring the Role of Fitness Function of Extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) in Cancer Evolution"
    Tu, Fengyu

  16. "Cluster Formation in Interacting Particle Systems – Modeling and Simulation"
    Wehlitz, Nathalie

  17. "A null model for the evolution of the recombination map"
    Yuksel, Mete