Talks

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Upcoming

~ September 9, 2024 ~
Who is the fittest? Non-trivial insights from simple models
Guest Lecture @ IICII Summer School in Quantitative Biology, Milan, Italy

~ August 30, 2024 ~
TBA
Invited Talk @ Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society for Microbiology, Bern, Switzerland

Past

~ July 1, 2024 ~
Some unanswered and unasked questions in microbial ecology
Invited Talk @ IX Mediterrenean School of Complex Networks, Grado, Italy

~ June 10, 2024 ~
What is a macroecological law?
Invited Talk @ Workshop on Naturam totam complectari animo: Towards a relational ecology, Pontificial University of the Holy Cross, Rome, Italy

~ April 18, 2024 ~
Competition without contingency and functional convergence
Invited Seminar @ Dutch Institute for Emergent Phenomena, Amsterdam, Netherlands

~ March 20-23, 2024 ~
High-dimensional microbial community dynamics
Invited Talk @ Biology Across Scales Symposium, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

~ March 5, 2024 ~
Microbial community dynamics in-silico, in-vitro, and in-vivo
Invited Talk @ APS March Meeting 2024, Minneapolis, MN, USA

~ March 1, 2024 ~
Competition without contingency and functional convergence
Invited Talk @ Physics of Living System, Boston, MA, USA

~ January 25, 2024 ~
What is typical in microbial communities?
Invited Seminar @ Slovenian Microbiological Society Online Seminars, remotely

~ October 19, 2023 ~
Non-catastrophic shifts in the human gut microbiome
Invited Talk @ Workshop on New Frontiers in Modelling Ecology and Evolution of Microbiomes, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany

~ September 4 - September 6, 2023 ~
Deep Dive on linking models and data
Invited Talk @ Ecological networks from theory to application, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheva, Israel

~ June 15 - June 16, 2023 ~
Non-catastrophic shifts in the human gut microbiome
Invited Talk @ Ecological perturbations across systems and scales, University of Granada, Granada, Spain

~ May 3 - May 5, 2023 ~
Coarse-graining microbial ecology
Invited Talk @ Cosentino-Lagomarsino and Ciandrini group retreat,, Borgo Priolo, Italy

~ March 24, 2023 ~
What is typical in microbial communities?
Invited Seminar @ Population Dynamics Online Seminar Series, remotely

~ February 7, 2023 ~
What is typical in microbial communities?
Invited Seminar @ NCCR Microbiomes Seminar Series, Switzerland, remotely

~ October 20, 2022 ~
What is typical in microbial communities?
Invited talk @ EcoIncontros, Department of Ecology, USP, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

~ September 14 - September 16, 2022 ~
What is typical in microbial communities?
Keynote Talk @ Workshop Mathematical modelling of microbiomes, MPI for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany

~ April 24, 2022 ~
What is typical in microbial communities?
Invited Talk @ Area Science Park, Trieste, Italy

~ April 7, 2022 ~
What is typical in microbial communities?
Invited Talk @ Spring workshop on Physics of Data, Venice, Italy

~ November 24, 2021 ~
What is typical in microbial communities?
Invited Seminar @ Dept of Physics, Ecole Normale Sup'erieure, Paris, France, Paris, France

~ October 5, 2021 ~
What is typical in microbial communities?
Invited Seminar @ Lecture Series in Ecology and Evolution, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Universitat Bern, Switzerland, remotely

~ October 5, 2021 ~
What is typical in microbial communities?
Invited Seminar @ Lecture Series in Ecology and Evolution, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Universitat Bern, Switzerland, remotely

~ April 14, 2021 ~
What is typical in microbial communities?
Invited Seminar @ Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, India, remotely

~ March 19, 2021 ~
What is typical in microbial communities?
Invited Seminar @ Instituto Carlos I, university of Granada, Spain, remotely

~ February 25, 2021 ~
What is typical in microbial communities?
Invited Seminar @ Biological Complexity Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan, remotely

~ September 18, 2020 ~
What is typical in microbial communities?
Talk @ EESB seminars, MIT, US, remotely

~ September 30, 2020 ~
Laws of diversity and variation in microbial communities
Invited Seminar @ Department of Biology, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, remotely

~ September 18, 2020 ~
Higher-order interactions in ecological systems
Invited Talk @ Toponet 2020, NetSci 2020, remotely

~ August 25, 2020 ~
Laws of diversity and variation in microbial communities
Invited Talk @ Theory and Modeling of Living System symposium, Emory College, remotely
video

~ August 24, 2020 ~
Laws of diversity and variation in microbial communities
Invited Seminar @ Dept. of Physics, University of Florida, remotely

~ April 21, 2020 ~
Laws of diversity and variation in microbial communities
Invited Seminar @ Rockefeller university, remotely

~ January 20-25, 2020 ~
Laws of diversity and variation in microbial communities
Invited Talk @ Community Ecology: from patterns to principles, ICTP-SAIFR, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
video

~ December 9-10, 2019 ~
Laws of diversity and variation in microbial communities
Invited Talk @ Quantitative Methods in Gene Regulation V, Institute of Physics, London, United Kingdom

~ November 12-13, 2019 ~
Invited @ Cognitive Regime Shifts II (Working Group), Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, USA

~ September 2-6, 2019 ~
Laws of diversity and variation in microbial communities
Invited Talk @ Model-guided data science (School), Villa del Grumello, Como, Italy

~ August 18-23, 2019 ~
Macroecological laws across microbial communities
Invited Talk @ Out-of-Equilibrium Processes in Evolution and Ecology (BIRS Workshop), Casa Matemática Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico
video

~ July 30, 2019 ~
Laws of diversity and variation in microbial communities
Invited Talk @ SBP-Seminar, SISSA, Trieste, Italy

~ July 1-3, 2019 ~
Macroecological laws across microbial communities
Contributed Talk @ Italian Regional Conference on Complex Systems, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy

~ February 15, 2019 ~
Mysteries and Laws of Biodiversity
Invited talk @ Pyeong Chang Forum 2019, Pyeongchang, Gangwon-do, South Korea

~ February 11, 2019 ~
Higher-order interactions stabilize dynamics in competitive network models
Invited talk @ Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

~ February 4, 2019 ~
Higher-order interactions stabilize the dynamics of ecological communities
Invited seminar @ CNLS Colloquium, Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM, USA

~ December 14, 2018 ~
Higher-order interactions stabilize the dynamics of ecological communities
Invited talk @ Department of Ecology, USP, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

~ December 13, 2018 ~
Higher-order interactions stabilize the dynamics of ecological communities
Invited talk @ ICTP-SAIFR, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

~ September 26, 2018 ~
Higher-order interactions stabilize dynamics in competitive network models
Invited talk @ ReAct 3.0 @ CCS 2018, Thessaloniki, Greece

~ July 23-25, 2018 ~
On the stability of large ecological communities
Invited talk @ Cognitive Regime Shifts I (Working Group), Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, USA

~ May 7-11, 2018 ~
Diversity in ecological communities
Invited talk @ Statistical physics of cells and genomes (Working group), Alghero, Italy

~ March 5-9, 2018 ~
Statistical physics of (meta)genomes
Contributed talk @ APS March Meeting 2018, Los Angeles, CA, USA

~ May 2, 2017 ~
Higher-order interactions stabilize the dynamics of ecological communities
Invited talk @ ICTP, Trieste, Italy

~ February 27, 2017 ~
What’s in a Last Name? Mobility, Gender Imbalance and Nepotism across Academic Systems
Invited talk @ Second Science of Science Meeting, Chicago, IL, USA

~ January 26, 2017 ~
Higher-order interactions stabilize the dynamics of ecological communities
Invited talk @ Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, USA

~ April 15, 2016 ~
Coexistence in large ecosystems: from structure to function
Invited Seminar @ Laboratory of Computational and Quantitative Biology, UPMC, Paris, France

~ April 12, 2016 ~
Coexistence in large ecosystems: from structure to function
Invited Seminar @ ICTP, Trieste, Italy

~ August 11, 2015 ~
Feasibility and stability of large ecosystems
Contributed talk @ 100th ESA Conference, Baltimore, MD, USA

~ August 11, 2015 ~
Persistence of a population in randomly fragmented landscapes
Contributed talk @ Granada Seminar, La Herradura, Spain

~ May 26, 2015 ~
Stability and feasibility of large ecosystems
Invited Seminar @ Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

~ March 26, 2015 ~
On the stability of large ecosystems
Invited Seminar @ Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Neatherlands

~ December 18, 2014 ~
Emergence of criticality in communities of living systems
Invited talk @ Workshop on Physics of Complex Systems, Padova, Italy

~ September 22, 2014 ~
Persistence of a population in randomly fragmented landscapes
Contributed talk @ ECCS 2014, Lucca, Italy

~ November 3, 2014 ~
Spatial aggregation and spatial fragmentation: simple random models for spatial ecology
Invited Seminar @ Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland

~ October 6, 2014 ~
Scaling laws in genome evolution
Invited Seminar @ Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Torino, Torino, Italy

~ December 17, 2013 ~
Emergence of criticality in living systems through adaptation and evolution
Invited Seminar @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA

~ September 15, 2013 ~
Emergence of criticality in living systems through adaptation and evolution
Contributed talk @ ECCS 2013, Barcelona, Spain

~ July 1, 2013 ~
Universal properties of ecological interactions and stability of ecosystems
Contributed talk @ Workshop on Quantitative Laws of Genome Evolution, Como, Italy

~ December 20, 2012 ~
Growth or Reproduction? Emergence of a Strategy
Invited talk @ Workshop on Physics of Complex Systems, Padova, Italy

~ November 9, 2012 ~
Growth or Reproduction? Emergence of a Strategy
Invited talk @ Scientific day in honor of Bruno Bassetti, Milan, Italy

~ June 22, 2012 ~
Spatial distribution of species across scales
Contributed talk @ XVII Conference on Statistical Physics and Complex Systems, Parma, Italy