Social Biology of Microbes 2012 #SocialMicrobes12 wrapup via Storify

Meeting details: 

Welcoming remarks: 

• David Relman (presentation) (audio)
• James Hughes (audio)
• Lonnie King (audio)
• KEYNOTE: 

Sociomicrobiology: 

• Quorum sensing, biofilms, and territoriality (presentation) (audio) E. Peter Greenberg, University of Washington
• Moderator: David Relman DISCUSSION (audio)

SESSION I: Formation and Function of Microbial Communities

• Moderator: Jacque Fletcher
• Symbiont community complexity 
• The fungal gardens of leafcutter ants
• (presentation) (audio)
• Cameron R. Currie, University of Wisconsin – Madison
• The role of oxygen in shaping the structure and function of microbial communities
• (presentation) (audio)
• Thomas M. Schmidt, Michigan State University
• Source-sink dynamics: 
• Marine invertebrate-associated and free-living chemosynthetic symbionts
• Colleen Cavanaugh, Harvard University DISCUSSION (audio)

SESSION II: Factors Contributing to Community Stability 

• Moderator: David Relman
• Social evolutionary theory, cooperation, and the expression of virulence in microbial communities
• (presentation) (audio)
• Sam Brown, University of Edinburgh
• Ecological factors and processes during evolutionary transitions in Darwinian individuality
• (presentation) (audio)
• Paul Rainey, New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study & Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology
• Evolution of cooperation and control of cheating in the social amoeba:
• Dictyostelium discoideum
• (presentation: part 1 part 2) (audio)
• Joan E. Strassmann, Washington University\
• Swarming bacteria as freight haulage systems (presentation) (audio)
• Colin J. Ingham, Wageningen University
• Emergence and robustness of multicellular behavior in bacteria (presentation) (audio)

• Joao Xavier, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
• Mathematical and computational challenges in the study of complex adaptive systems
• (presentation) (audio)
• Simon A. Levin, Princeton University
• DISCUSSION (audio) 

DAY 2: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 2012

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SESSION III: 

• Summary of Day One: David Relman (presentation) (audio)
• Edith Widder, Ocean Research & Conservation Association
• KEYNOTE: Glowing corpses & radiant excrement: The role of bioluminescence in microbial communities
• (presentation) (audio)
• Moderator: Lonnie King DISCUSSION (audio)
• Jo Handelsman, Yale University
• Interspecies interactions among rhizosphere and soil bacteria (presentation) (audio
• Moderator: David Rizzo
• David Low, University of California - Santa Barbara
• Contact dependent mechanisms of communication in bacteria (presentation) (audio)
• Vanessa Sperandio, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center 
• Interactions between symbiotic microbes, their mammalian host, and invading pathogens
• (presentation) (audio)
• Moderator: Carole Heilman
• Jonathan Eisen, University of California - Davis
• Phylogenetic and phylogenomic approaches to studies of microbial communities
• (presentation) (audio)

SESSION IV: What More Do We Need to Know about Microbial Community Dynamics?

• DISCUSSION (audio) 
• Jared R. Leadbetter, California Institute of Technology
• Discovery and applications of the metabolic diversity of microbial communities
• (presentation) (audio)
• Statistical tools for integrating community networks, spatial and clinical data (presentation) (audio)
• Jill Banfield, University of California - Berkeley
• Microbial community assembly and dynamics: From acidophilic biofilms to the premature infant gut
• (presentation) (audio)
• David A. Relman, Stanford University
• Human-microbe mutualism in health and disease (presentation) (audio)
• DISCUSSION (audio) 
• Concluding Remarks (audio) 

Just got back from a meeting on the "Social Biology of Microbes". Here are some notes from my trip and from the talks at the meeting, done via Storify. Here it is as a slideshow:

And here it is a a full scrollable presentation