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SUMMARY:Plenary Lecture 5: Neutral models on island chains: biodiversity m
 easures\, and the 'everything is everywhere' problem. - Warren\, P (Unilev
 er R&amp\;D)
DTSTART:20141030T140000Z
DTEND:20141030T143500Z
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CONTACT:Mustapha Amrani
DESCRIPTION:Personal care products such as deodorants\, anti-dandruff trea
 tments\, and toothpastes\, impact directly on human-associated microbial c
 ommunities.  Recent progress in next generation sequencing\, and large sca
 le microbiomics projects\, have revealed the startling diversity of these 
 communities: sequence deep enough and (almost) everything is everywhere.  
 Conversely\, it appears that everyone carries around their own personal mi
 croflora.  This begs the question: how do human-associated microbial commu
 nities get to be the way they are?  How much is due to chance?  In this ta
 lk\, simulations of neutral community assembly models on island chains ind
 icate how measurements of inter-individual and intra-individual beta-diver
 sity may give insights into assembly mechanisms.  Additionally\, the analy
 sis suggests biodiversity measures which remain well defined in the 'micro
 bial limit' of an infinite population\, escaping the 'everything is everyw
 here' problem.\n\n
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Newton Institute
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