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Estimating mutation rates under heterogeneous stress responses

Lucy Lansch-Justen , Meriem El Karoui, Helen K. Alexander - PLOS Comp. Bio. (2024)

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012146 

Alternative cliques of coexisting species in complex ecosystems

Guim Aguadé-Gorgorió and Sonia Kéfi - J. Phys. Complex. (2024)

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2632-072X/ad506a 

Structured community transitions explain the switching capacity of microbial systems

Chengyi Long, Jie Deng, Jen Nguyen, Yang-Yu Liu, Eric J. Alm, Ricard Solé, and Serguei Saavedra - PNAS (2024)

https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2312521121 

Fingering Instability Accelerates Population Growth of a Proliferating Cell Collective

Yiyang Ye (叶毅扬) and Jie Lin (林杰) - Physical Review Letters (2023)

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.018402 

Environment-organism feedbacks drive changes in ecological interactions

Oliver J. Meacock and Sara Mitri - bioarxiv (2023)

https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.10.31.565024 

Orientational dynamics and rheology of active suspensions in weakly viscoelastic flows

Akash Choudhary, Sankalp Nambiar & Holger Stark  - Communications Physics volume 6 (2023)

https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-023-01279-w 

Dynamic proteome trade-offs regulate bacterial cell size and growth in fluctuating nutrient environments 

Kratz, J.C., Banerjee, S.  - Commun Biol 6, 486 (2023)

https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-04865-4 

Eco-evolutionary modelling of microbial syntrophy indicates the robustness of cross-feeding over cross-facilitation 

G. Boza, G. Barabás, I. Scheuring & I. Zachar - Scientific Reports 2023

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-27421-w 

Microbial population dynamics decouple growth response from environmental nutrient concentration

Justus Wilhelm Fink, Noelle A. Held, and Michael Manhart  - PNAS 2023

https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2207295120 

Environmental and ecological controls of the spatial distribution of microbial populations in aggregates

Martinez-Rabert, C van Amstel, C Smith, WT Sloan, R Gonzalez-Cabaleiro - Plos Comput Biol 2022

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010807 

Feedback linking cell envelope stiffness, curvature, and synthesis enables robust rod-shaped bacterial growth

S al-Mosleh, A Gopinathan, CD Santangelo, KC Huang, ER Rojas - PNAS 2022

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2200728119 

Robust replication initiation from coupled homeostatic mechanisms

Mareike Berger & Pieter Rein ten Wolde - Nat Commun 2022

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33886-6 

A leader cell triggers end of lag phase in populations of Pseudomonas fluorescens

Maxime Ardré, Guilhem Doulcier, Naama Brenner, Paul B Rainey (2022) - MicroLife

https://doi.org/10.1093/femsml/uqac022 

Quantifying the impact of ecological memory on the dynamics of interacting communities

Moein Khalighi, Guilhem Sommeria-Klein, Didier Gonze, Karoline Faust, Leo Lahti (2022) - PloS Comput Biol

https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009396 

Coexistence in diverse communities with higher-order interactions

Theo Gibbs, Simon A. Levin, Jonathan M. Levine (2022) - PNAS

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2205063119 

Theory for Transitions Between Exponential and Stationary Phases: Universal Laws for Lag Time

Yusuke Himeoka, Kunihiko Kaneko (2017) - Phys. Rev. X

https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.7.021049 

Multiple social encounters can eliminate Crozier’s paradox and stabilise genetic kin recognition

Thomas W. Scott, Alan Grafen & Stuart A. West (2022) -  Nat Commun

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31545-4 

Size regulation of multiple organelles competing for a limiting subunit pool

Deb Sankar Banerjee and Shiladitya Banerjee (2022) -  Plos Comput Biol 

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010253 

Arrested coalescence of multicellular aggregates

David Oriola, Miquel Marin-Riera, Kerim Anlaş, Nicola Gritti, Marina Sanaki-Matsumiya, Germaine Aalderink, Miki Ebisuya, James Sharpeab  and  Vikas Trivedi (2022) -  Soft Matter

https://doi.org/10.1039/d2sm00063f 

Universal constraint on nonlinear population dynamics

Kyosuke Adachi, Ryosuke Iritani, Ryusuke Hamazaki (2022) -  Commun Phys

https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-022-00912-4 

 Emergent coexistence in multispecies microbial communities

Chang-Yu Chang,  Djordje Bajic,  Jean Vila,  Sylvie Estrela,  Alvaro Sanchez (2022)  - bioRxiv https://t.co/ujo4pj85mt 

 Dynamical systems theory of cellular reprogramming

Yuuki Matsushita, Tetsuhiro S. Hatakeyama, and Kunihiko Kaneko (2022)  - Phys. Rev. Research. https://journals.aps.org/prresearch/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.4.L022008 

 Synchronization of a genetic oscillator with the cell division cycle

Gabriel Knotz, Ulrich Parlitz and Stefan Klumpp (2022)  - Soft MatterNew Journal of Physics. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/ac5c16/meta

 Motion of an active particle with dynamical disorder

Koushik Goswamia  and  Rajarshi Chakrabarti (2022)  - Soft Matter. https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2022/SM/D1SM01816G

 Self-organization of collective escape in pigeon flocks

Papadopoulou M, Hildenbrandt H, Sankey DWE, Portugal SJ, Hemelrijk CK (2022)  - PLoS Comput Biol 18(1): e1009772. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009772 

Embedded control of cell growth using tunable genetic systems 

Fusco, V, Salzano, D, Fiore, D, di Bernardo, M.  - Int J Robust Nonlinear Control. 2022; 1- 15. doi:10.1002/rnc.5982 

Suboptimal resource allocation in changing environments constrains response and growth in bacteria

Rohan Balakrishnan, Roshali T de Silva, Terence Hwa, Jonas Cremer -  Mol Syst Biol. (2021) 17: e10597 https://doi.org/10.15252/msb.202110597

A traveling-wave solution for bacterial chemotaxis with growth

Avaneesh V. Narla, Jonas Cremer, Terence Hwa  - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Nov 2021, 118 (48) e2105138118; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2105138118

Single-cell growth inference of Corynebacterium glutamicum reveals asymptotically linear growth

Joris JB Messelink, Fabian Meyer, Marc Bramkamp, Chase P Broedersz - eLife 2021;10:e70106 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.70106

When to wake up? The optimal waking-up strategies for starvation-induced persistence

Himeoka Y, Mitarai N (2021) -  PLoS Comput Biol 17(2): e1008655. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008655

On the optimality of the enzyme–substrate relationship in bacteria

Dourado H, Mori M, Hwa T, Lercher MJ (2021) - PLoS Biol 19(10): e3001416. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001416

The evolution of strategy in bacterial warfare via the regulation of bacteriocins and antibiotics 

Rene Niehus, Nuno M Oliveira, Aming Li, Alexander G Fletcher, Kevin R Foster - eLife 2021;10:e69756 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.69756

Environmental fluctuations reshape an unexpected diversity-disturbance relationship in a microbial community 

Christopher P Mancuso, Hyunseok Lee, Clare I Abreu, Jeff Gore, Ahmad S Khalil - eLife 2021;10:e67175 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.67175

Emergent spatiotemporal population dynamics with cell-length control of synthetic microbial consortia

Winkle JJ, Karamched BR, Bennett MR, Ott W, Josić K (2021) -  PLoS Comput Biol 17(9): e1009381. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009381

The Correlation Between Cell and Nucleus Size is Explained by an Eukaryotic Cell Growth Model 

Yufei Wu, Paul Janmey, Sean X. Sun bioRxiv 2021.09.01.458491; https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.09.01.458491

Large Deviation Principle Linking Lineage Statistics to Fitness in Microbial Populations 

Ethan Levien, Trevor GrandPre, and Ariel Amir Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 048102 https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.048102

Disentangling Intrinsic and Extrinsic Gene Expression Noise in Growing Cells 

Jie Lin and Ariel Amir Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 078101 https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.078101

Virus-Host Interactions Shape Viral Dispersal Giving Rise to Distinct Classes of Traveling Waves in Spatial Expansions

Michael Hunter, Nikhil Krishnan, Tongfei Liu, Wolfram Möbius, and Diana Fusco Phys. Rev. X 11, 021066 https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.11.021066

Predicting microbial growth dynamics in response to nutrient availability

Nev OA, Lindsay RJ, Jepson A, Butt L, Beardmore RE, Gudelj I (2021) -  PLoS Comput Biol 17(3): e1008817. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008817