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How has ageing impacted the evolution of cooperation during two major evolutionary transitions?
Extending the lifespan of antibiotics?
Jointly supervised with Joost de Graaf (ITP).
Can conflict resolution save group adaptation?
Operon organization and metabolic regulation in E. coli: the role of the inducer.
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Laurens graduated on April 20, 2022, based on his dissertation with the title:
Models of noise propagation in growing and regulating bacterial cells
Laurens is currently working at KeyGene.
Hilje graduated on September 23, 2020, based on her dissertation with the title:
Microbial evolution at multiple scales
She is now an Assistant Professor at the Laboratory of Genetics of Wageningen University. Profile page.Â
Misha is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Netherlands Cancer Institute, where his research focuses the development of invasive breast cancer from in situ lesions.
MSc Student - 2023
Random drift in group-structured populations with multilevel selection.
MSc Student - 2023
Short- and long-term evolutionary strategies: defining and measuring natural selection at all time scales.Â
MSc Student - 2022
Evolution of division of labor and transitions of individuality in spatially self-structured populations.
MSc Student - 2022
Applying inclusive fitness theory to individual-based models of group-structured or viscous populations.
MSc Student - 2021
Steady states, dynamics, and noise in the regulation of the catabolic proteome sector of Escherichia coli.
MSc Student - 2021
Noise and individuality in the growth of E. coli cells.Â
MSc Student (VU Amsterdam) - 2020
The evolution of spiteful behaviors in a viscous population.
MSc Student - 2020
Theory and practice of transcriptional autoregulation.(Writing assignment)
MSc Student - 2020
Processes that Shape Operon Formation in Bacteria Genomes.
(Writing assignment)
MSc Student - 2020
The relation between operon structure and the position of ligands in metabolic networks.
(Collaboration with Michael Seidl.)
MSc Student (Mathematics) - 2019
Natural selection across spatial an time scales.
MSc Student - 2019
Bacterial cell size homeostasis
(Writing assignment)
MSc Student - 2018
Decompositions of natural selection: combining the Price and contextual approaches.
MSc Student (VU Amsterdam) - 2018
Selection of spite and its dependence on interaction scales
MSc Student - 2017
The evolution of small-molecule communication among temperate bacteriophages.
MSc Student - 2017
Evidence for bacterial quorum sensing and its proposed functions.
(Writing assignment)
MSc Student (WUR) - 2016
Regulation of bacteriocin production in Lactococcus lactis & Bacillus subtilis
MSc Student (Physics) - 2015
The interplay between stochasticity and regulation in a coarse-grained model of gene expression, metabolism, and growth
MSc Student - 2014
The fixation probability of a mutation that extends a species' range.