Assessing virus-microbe dynamics  requires the analysis of microbe-microbe interactions; whether for marine microbes or commensal-pathogen dynamics. The nonlinear interactions between individual microbes, particularly in complex, diverse communities, can give rise to emergent phenomena, unexpected when analyzing the system at the individual scale. Some of the projects we currently work on include:

• Emergence of spatial patterns arising from microbial growth dynamics
• Dynamics of microbial dormancy and bet-hedging
• Multi-trophic interactions between microbes and eukaryotic antagonists

Recent Publications

• Rapid bacteria-phage coevolution drives the emergence of multiscale networks
• Disentangling top-down drivers of mortality underlying diel population dynamics of Prochlorococcus in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre
• Emergence and maintenance of stable coexistence during a long-term multicellular evolution experiment

Team members