Adaptive Modelling Club
Wednesday 3rd June 2009 was a momentous day. It will be recorded in history as the first meeting of some of the finest scientific minds of their generation, gathered to discuss topics of fundamental importance to humanity and the cosmos. The Adaptive Modelling Club was born.
We loosely define “adaptive modelling” to include any form of model that includes some notion of parameter change over time, e.g., genetic evolution, acclimation, lifetime learning. The AMC meet fortnightly to discuss topics relating to:
*adaptive modelling in all its forms
*evolutionary, ecological and ecosystem theory
*the “bio” in “biogeochemistry”
*emergence and other complex phenomena
*individual-based models
*anything else we feel like
Typically each meeting will consider a relevant paper or other piece of work presented by a group member. All welcome.
| Date | Time/Venue | Topic |
| 13/04/2011 | 3pm, ENV 01.37A | Can evolution track the rapidity of climate change? A group discussion centring on this recent paper. |
| 23/03/2011 | 3pm, EFRY 0.03 | Cock van Oosterhout gives a presentation entitled “Studying host-parasite coevolution and population genetics with computational models”. |
| 16/03/2011 | 3pm, ENV 01.37A | Richard Boyle will present his recent PNAS submission, available here. |
| 23/02/2011 | 4pm, D’Arcy Thomson Room | A talk entitled “Gaia. Perhaps not so lucky after all” by James Dyke from the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry. More details available here. |
| 16/02/2011 | 3pm, EFRY 0.06 | A discussion topic of Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVMs) lead by James Clark, centring on this paper. |
| 28/01/2011 | 2pm, D’Arcy Thomson Room | A talk entitled “Complex networks in food safety and food security studies” by Dr. Joszef Baranyi from the Institute of Food Research. Pick a paper from here for discussion following the presentation. |
| 14/01/2011 | 3pm, LGMAC seminar room | The first AMC of 2011 will be lead by Phil Underwood and will elaborate on a project to build emergent models of trophic structure. |
| 17/12/2010 | 3pm, LGMAC seminar room | Stuart Daines presents a Leverhulme project special on “The evolutionary response of marine microbial ecosystems to global change”. |
| 03/12/2010 | 3pm, LGMAC seminar room | Andrzej Tkacz presents a talk entitled “Use of model plants to examine rhizosphere community”. There are three supporting papers: one, two and three. |
| 19/11/2010 | 3pm, LGMAC seminar room | James Clark presents this article on Adaptive Dynamics. Here are the presentation slides. |
| 05/11/2010 | 3pm, LGMAC seminar room | A summary presentation from Piotr Bentkowski and Phil Underwood regarding the recent Advanced School on Complexity, Adaptation and Emergence in Marine Ecosystems. |
| 15/10/2010 | 3pm, LGMAC seminar room | An open discussion on tipping points in complex systems and if/how they can be predicted, based around the following article. |
| 01/10/2010 | 3pm, LGMAC seminar room | We will be discussing the topic of Epigenetics, and will be looking at chapter 7 by Eva Jablonka and Marion J. Lamb from the book “Evolution: The Extended Synthesis” edited by Massimo Pigliucci and Gerd B. Müller: part one, part two. We also have an additional paper that may be of interest to those who were present at the previous AMC meeting. |
| 17/09/2010 | 3pm, LGMAC seminar room | A discussion topic suggested by Piotrek, “What is a gene? Molecular versus evolutionary perspective”. The following are links to the discussion papers: one, two, three and four. |
| 13/08/2010 | 3pm, LGMAC seminar room | Hywel will be giving us a short talk entitled “Virus-Host Coevolution, Killing the Winner, and the Red Queen”. The following papers represent the background to this talk: one, two and three. |
| 30/07/2010 | 3pm, LGMAC seminar room | An open discussion on the topic of spatial ecology. Reading one, two and three. |
| 16/07/2010 | 3pm, LGMAC seminar room | Tim will be giving us a run through of his talk entitled ‘Metabolic regulation of the biosphere’ to be presented at the Gordon Research Conference on Metabolic Basis of Ecology next week. |
| 02/07/2010 | 3pm, LGMAC seminar room | POSTPONED. |
| 18/06/2010 | CANCELLED. | |
| 04/06/2010 | 3pm, LGMAC seminar room | Seminar by Piotr Bentkowski entitled “Model of genome streamlining in unicellular phytoplankton – dependency on stability of environmental conditions”. The presentation will be focussed around this paper. |
| 21/05/2010 | 3pm, LGMAC seminar room | Discussion topic: Complex Adaptive Systems. The discussion will be focussed around this paper by Simon Levin plus an optional additional paper from this list of abstracts. |
| 07/05/2010 | 3pm, LGMAC seminar room | Discussion topic: Ecological Stoichiometry. Reading is chapter 1 of “Ecological Stoichiometry” by Sterner & Elser (2002) or the concise summary of the theory. |
| 23/04/2010 | 3pm, EFRY 01.18 | Brown et al. (2004) Toward a metabolic theory of ecology. |
| 09/04/2010 | POSTPONED | Konstantinos Bougioukos presents his thesis work, a talk entitled “Topological properties of gene regulatory networks with quantitatively different gene expression dynamics on spatially organised systems”. |
| 26/03/2010 | 3pm, LGMAC seminar room | Richard Boyle presents “Symbiosis promotes environmental homeostasis”. Paper one, two, three and four. |
| 12/03/2010 | 3pm, LGMAC seminar room | “Models of human cooperation”. Paper one, two and three. |
| 26/02/2010 | 2:30pm, LGMAC seminar room | Piotr Bentkowski talk: “Chicken or Egg? What Came First, Evolution or Life?”. Supporting papers: one and two |
| 12/02/2010 | 2pm, LGMAC seminar room | Talks practice session |
| 29/01/2010 | 2pm, LGMAC seminar room | The microbial genomics revolution – All-must-read paper |
| 15/01/2010 | 2pm, LGMAC seminar room | Reading this paper and discussion in ‘Viruses in marine microbial biocenosis’ |
| 17/12/2009 | 1pm LGMAC seminar room | Talk by Erik Buitenhuis (LGMAC, ENV, UEA) about ‘A model of phytoplankton acclimation to iron-light co-limitation’. Supportive material one and two |
| 3/12/2009 | 2pm LGMAC seminar room | Talk by Stuart Daines (LGMAC & Dept of Physics, University of Oxford, Clarendon Lab) about his work in Oxford |
| 19/11/2009 | 2pm LGMAC seminar room | Talk by Phil Underwood (PhD student in LGMAC): “Drawing the line between abstraction and extraneousness: the computational barriers of physical ocean ecosystem modelling” Supportive paper |
| 5/11/2009 | 2pm LGMAC coffee room | The evolution of in silico systems Paper One, Paper Two |
| 21/10/2009 | 12.00 LGMAC seminar room | Mick Follows’ group papers: Paper One , Paper Two , Paper Three |
| 19/8/2009 | 3pm LGMAC seminar room | Ben Mills paper-in-progress and Lenton&Watson2004 background paper |
| 5/8/2009 | 3pm LGMAC seminar room | Focus on work of Uri Alon: Paper1 , Paper2 , Paper3 , Paper4 , Paper5 |
| 15/7/2009 | 2pm ZICER 1.10 | DeLong (2009) The microbial ocean from genomes to biomes |
| 1/7/2009 | LGMAC Seminar Room | Jim Clark work-in-progress |
| 17/6/2009 | 1pm LGMAC Seminar Room | Tian (2006) Toward standard parameterizations in marine biological modeling |
| 3/6/2009 | 2pm LGMAC Seminar Room | Klausmeier et al (2008) Phytoplankton stoichiometry |
