Group member Marian Dominguez-Mirazo, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Biology, co-authored a paper recently selected as the Best Paper in Ecology, Evolution and Population Biology for the 2024 QBioS Award at Georgia Tech. Published in mBio, the paper, titled “Accounting for cellular-level variation in lysis: implications for virus–host dynamics,” revisits one of the foundational methods in virology, the one-step growth curve, and reveals how it can lead to systematic biases in estimates of viral traits. By incorporating cellular-level variability in the timing of lysis into a new modeling framework, the study provides a more accurate and predictive approach to understanding virus–host interactions across microbial ecosystems.

Congratulations to Marian!