It is largely unknown how the process of microbial community assembly is affected by the
order of species arrival, initial species abundances and interactions between species. A …

Variance in reproductive success is a major determinant of the degree of genetic drift in a
population. While many plants and animals exhibit high variance in their number of progeny, …

Microbial communities can have dramatically different compositions even among similar
environments. This might be due to the existence of multiple alternative stable states, yet there …

For numerous experimental applications, PCR primers must be designed to efficiently
amplify a set of homologous DNA sequences while giving rise to amplicons with maximally …

How did chemicals first become organized into systems capable of self-propagation and
adaptive evolution? One possibility is that the first evolvers were chemical ecosystems localized …

Background Multiplexing multiple samples during Illumina sequencing is a common
practice and is rapidly growing in importance as the throughput of the platform increases. …

Whether and how toxin-mediated interactions contribute to diversity generation and maintenance
has been a long-standing puzzle. A recent theoretical work has demonstrated that the …

I study the evolution of solidification fronts propagating in undercooled liquids, the evolution
of microbial communities through diversification fronts propagating along microbial genomes…

A major challenge in theoretical ecology is understanding how natural microbial communities
support species diversity 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , and in particular how antibiotic-producing…

Soil grains harbor an astonishing diversity of Streptomyces strains producing diverse secondary
metabolites. However, it is not understood how this genotypic and chemical diversity is …