Introduction

This EPSRC funded workshop is intended to provide an arena for much-needed interaction between microbial experimentalists and mathematicians focused around the following evolutionary questions:

1. What determines species diversity?
2. How did cooperative behaviour evolve?

To facilitate communication between a spectrum of experimentalists and mathematicians, the workshop will require the participation of theoretical biologists who will serve to bridge the language and cultural divide.

Based around the above questions the workshop days will be divided into the following three themes:

1. Consumer-resource experimental systems and diversification in constant environments.
2. Host-pathogen experimental systems and diversification in non-constant environments.
3. Cooperative experimental systems and evolution of cooperation.

This is the first step of a wider research plan that involves the creation of an interdisciplinary network aimed at forging links that will lead to long-term collaborations.

Please register early as there are limited places for this event.

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