MMEE-2024 Mathematical Models in Ecology and Evolution

09:00 - 09:45:

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

-	Calina Durbac "Cost optimisation of hybrid institutional incentives for promoting cooperation in finite populations"

-	Genki Ichinose "Zero-determinant strategies and their extensions"

-	Cedric Perret "A theoretical investigation of the evolutionary dynamics of institutional rules"

-	Laura Schmid "Quantitative assessment can stabilize indirect reciprocity under imperfect information"

-	Michael Fischer "Flocking models in social sciences"

-	Gaspard Jankowiak "A mean-field approximation for network-based opinion dynamics"

-	Leo Meyer "Two species model of interacting agents : an application to neuron migration"

-	Carmela Moschella "Vicsek-Kuramoto system in collective dynamics and their macroscopic equations"

10:15 - 10:40:

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

10:40 - 11:05:

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

11:05 - 11:30:

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

11:30 - 11:55:

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

10:15 - 10:40:

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

10:40 - 11:05:

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

11:05 - 11:30:

Jayant Pande "Mean time to extinction in a fluctuating environment"

10:15 - 10:40:

Nandakishor Krishnan "Modelling the evolution of ectosymbiosis in the context of eukaryogenesis"

10:40 - 11:05:

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

11:05 - 11:30:

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

10:15 - 10:40:

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

10:40 - 11:05:

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

11:05 - 11:30:

Cameron Smith "Defensive symbiosis - tales from an uneasy alliance"

11:30 - 11:55:

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

10:15 - 10:40:

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

10:40 - 11:05:

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

11:05 - 11:30:

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

11:30 - 11:55:

Ryosuke Iritani "Evolution in graph-structured populations"

-	Jonathan Henshaw "Hermaphroditic origins of anisogamy"

-	Thomas Lesaffre "An adaptive hypothesis for the prevalence XY over ZW sex determination when dioecy evolves from hermaphroditism"

-	Roman Stetsenko "The effect of selfing on the mutation load near a site under balancing selection"

13:30 - 13:55:

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

13:55 - 14:20:

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

14:20 - 14:45:

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

14:45 - 15:10:

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

13:30 - 13:55:

Tiago Peixoto "Reconstruction of biological networks from population data"

13:55 - 14:20:

Mateusz Iskrzyński "Higher-order interactions and digraph generalisations"

14:20 - 14:45:

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

14:45 - 15:10:

Kalle Parvinen "Evolution of dispersal in metapopulation models"

13:30 - 13:55:

Moein Khalighi "Stability Landscape Dancing with Memory"

13:55 - 14:20:

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

14:20 - 14:45:

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

13:30 - 13:55:

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

13:55 - 14:20:

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

14:20 - 14:45:

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

14:45 - 15:10:

Boyu Zhang "Kinship can hinder cooperation in heterogeneous populations"

13:30 - 13:55:

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

13:55 - 14:20:

Mark Broom "Biological modelling: some average research"

14:20 - 14:45:

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

14:45 - 15:10:

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

13:30 - 13:55:

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

13:55 - 14:20:

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

14:20 - 14:45:

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

15:45 - 16:30:

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

16:30 - 17:15:

Alison Etheridge "Forwards and backwards in spatially heterogeneous populations"

09:00 - 09:45:

Judith Bronstein "Promising Directions in Mutualism Theory"

-	Hasan Haq "The effect of herding and dispersal on the evolution of cooperation"

-	Hana Krakovska "Beyond Two Player Interactions in Ultimatum Game"

-	Javad Mohamadichamgavi "The impact of time delay on mutant fixation in evolutionary games"

-	Diogo Pires "The simple rules of multiplayer cooperation in networks of communities"

-	Burcu Gürbüz "An analysis of a mathematical model of a reaction-diffusion system"

-	Pierre Haas "Two Stories of Stability and Structure in Ecological Communities"

-	Thomas Van Giel "Unveiling Ecological Dynamics through the Integration of Higher-Order Interactions (HOIs) and Individual-Based Models (IBMs)"

10:15 - 10:40:

Jitesh Jhawar "Mathematical models of collective behaviours across systems"

10:40 - 11:05:

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

11:05 - 11:30:

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

10:15 - 10:40:

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

10:40 - 11:05:

Nikoleta Glynatsi "Conditional cooperation with longer memory"

11:05 - 11:30:

Marta Couto "The evolution of boundedly rational learning in games"

11:30 - 11:55:

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

10:15 - 10:40:

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

10:40 - 11:05:

Marine Courtois "Multiple mating: a threat?"

11:05 - 11:30:

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

11:30 - 11:55:

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

10:15 - 10:40:

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

10:40 - 11:05:

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

11:05 - 11:30:

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

11:30 - 11:55:

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

10:15 - 10:40:

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

10:40 - 11:05:

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

11:05 - 11:20:

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

-	Alice Callegaro "Survival and complete convergence for a branching annihilating random walk"

-	Félix Foutel-Rodier "Emergence of multiple mergers from population structure: the case of semi-pushed fronts"

-	Emma Horton "Genealogies of branching Markov processes"

-	Anton Wakolbinger "From clonal interference to Poissonian interacting trajectories"

-	Sandro Azaele "Patterns and coexistence in large ecosystems driven by non-Gaussian interactions"

-	Silvia De Monte "Chaotic turnover in a model of strongly interacting species"

-	Emil Mallmin "Turnover of rare and abundant species due to unstructured ecological differences"

-	Géza Meszéna "Why Are There So Many Kinds of Animals?"

13:30 - 13:55:

Éloi Martin "Evolution of cooperation and assortment"

13:55 - 14:20:

Florian Labourel "Public Goods and the evolution of strategic altruism"

14:20 - 14:45:

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

14:45 - 15:10:

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

13:30 - 13:55:

Daniel Weinreich "The Evolution of Phenotypic Noise"

13:55 - 14:20:

Theodore Galanthay "Evolution of aggression in consumer-resource models"

14:20 - 14:45:

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

14:45 - 15:10:

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

13:30 - 13:55:

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

13:55 - 14:20:

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

14:20 - 14:45:

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

14:45 - 15:10:

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

13:55 - 14:20:

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

14:20 - 14:45:

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

13:30 - 13:55:

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

13:55 - 14:20:

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

14:20 - 14:45:

Bayu Brahmantio "Bayesian inference of mixed Gaussian phylogenetic models"

14:45 - 15:10:

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

15:45 - 16:30:

Oskar Hallatschek "Microfluidic island biogeography"

16:30 - 17:15:

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

08:45 - 09:30:

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

-	Isabela do O "The Evolution of Genetic Covariance Between Traits as Result of Multigenerational Environmental Fluctuations"

-	Ewan Flintham "The evolution of genetic architecture across spatial scales"

-	Carl Mackintosh "Locally adaptive inversions in structured populations"

10:00 - 10:25:

Yannick Viossat "Treating tumours early or late?"

10:25 - 10:50:

Peter Bayer "Games and the treatment convexity of cancer"

10:50 - 11:15:

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

10:00 - 10:25:

Fabio Chalub "Population dynamics and games of variable size"

10:25 - 10:50:

Hong Duong "Random evolutionary games and random polynomials"

10:50 - 11:15:

Maria Kleshnina "Optimal sharing in social dilemmas"

10:00 - 10:25:

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

10:25 - 10:50:

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

10:50 - 11:15:

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

11:15 - 11:40:

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

10:00 - 10:25:

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

10:25 - 10:50:

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

10:50 - 11:15:

Daniel Romero Mujalli "Emergence of phenotypic plasticity through epigenetic mechanisms"

11:15 - 11:40:

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

10:00 - 10:25:

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

10:25 - 10:50:

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

10:50 - 11:15:

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

11:15 - 11:40:

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

11:45 - 12:30:

Karl Sigmund "Dynamics of signalling games"

13:30 - 14:15:

Tom Britton "Mathematical models for epidemics"

09:00 - 09:45:

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

-	Kevin J Flynn "Modelling trait evolution in plankton communities; challenges and opportunities"

-	Paolo Lazzari "Stability, cycling and noise propagation in a complex biogeochemical model"

-	Onofrio Mazzarisi "Diversity begets stability: sublinear growth and competitive coexistence across ecosystems."

-	Aditee Mitra "Impact of mixotrophic strategies on marine ecosystem structure and functioning"

-	Gaurav Athreya "Mutual dependence and reproductive cohesion in incipient endosymbioses"

-	Hilje Doekes "Multiscale selection: a framework to quantify natural selection at all spatial scales"

-	Guilhem Doulcier "Ecological scaffolding of collective-level properties amd the"

-	Nikhil Sharma "On the role of deleterious mutations in long-term evolution"

10:15 - 10:40:

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

10:40 - 11:05:

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

11:05 - 11:30:

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

10:15 - 10:40:

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

10:40 - 11:05:

David Mark Ramsey "A large population mate choice game"

11:05 - 11:30:

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

10:15 - 10:40:

Amanda de Azevedo-Lopes "Multilevel selection models for microbiomes"

10:40 - 11:05:

Lewis Flintham "Generating mutualisms through branching in subdivided populations"

11:05 - 11:30:

Lucy Martin "Modelling the spread of senescence"

11:30 - 11:55:

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

10:15 - 10:40:

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

10:40 - 11:05:

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

11:05 - 11:30:

Joachim Krug "Submodular fitness landscapes"

10:15 - 10:40:

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

10:40 - 11:05:

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

11:05 - 11:30:

Vitor Sudbrack "Tandem repeat variation in partially selfing populations"

11:30 - 11:55:

József Garay "Genotype dynamics and Haldane’s familial selection"

-	Piret Avila "The Expensive Germline and the Disposable Soma: exploring the co-evolution of life history and deleterious mutation rate"

-	Olivier Cotto "A null model for the distribution of fitness effects of mutations"

-	E. Yagmur Erten "The effect of germline senescence on life history evolution"

-	Stefano Giaimo "On detecting senescence in stage-structured populations"

-	Leonardo Aguirre "Piecewise-deterministic Markov processes"

-	Carlo Albert "Scaling Laws of Microbial Growth"

-	Virgile Brodu "An individual-based model for allometric relationships."

-	Stefanie Winkelmann "Systematic reduction of spatio-temporal population dynamics and application to epidemic spreading"

13:00 - 13:25:

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

13:25 - 13:50:

Nadav Shnerb "Coexistence in stochastic environments"

13:50 - 14:15:

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

14:15 - 14:40:

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

13:00 - 13:25:

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

13:25 - 13:50:

Kieran Sharkey "Evolutionary bet-hedging in structured populations"

13:50 - 14:15:

Daniel Cooney "Evolutionary Dynamics Within and Among Competing Groups"

13:00 - 13:25:

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

13:25 - 13:50:

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

13:50 - 14:15:

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

14:15 - 14:40:

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

13:00 - 13:25:

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

13:25 - 13:50:

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

13:50 - 14:15:

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

13:00 - 13:25:

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

13:25 - 13:50:

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

13:50 - 14:15:

Apolline Louvet "Dormancy in urban environments"

14:15 - 14:40:

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