Bacterial predators

Who would be at your ideal conference? I’d love to be marooned on a desert island (with whiteboards, or at least a smooth sandy beach to scribble on) with Michael Lynch, Ralph Greenspan, Norbert Perrimon, John Mattick, Michael Wade, Thomas Whitham, Sara Via and Allen Moore. Perrimon, Mattick and Greenspan each have their own unique perspectives on how complex gene networks might work, while Whitham, Wade and Moore extend evolutionary network thinking to social and ecological communities. Via and Lynch are the brilliant sceptics whose smart null hypotheses keep everyone else grounded in facts. I’d like to hear this group discuss how natural selection affects the interaction of molecular/ genetic and ecological networks.