Investigating how viruses transform human health and the fate of our planet.
Investigating how viruses transform human health and the fate of our planet.
Investigating how viruses transform human health and the fate of our planet.
A new paper authored by Tapan Goel, along with Stephen Beckett and Prof. Joshua Weitz, has been published in Virus Evolution. The study, titled “Eco-evolutionary dynamics of temperate phages in periodic environments,” uses non-linear differential equations to simulate how temperate viruses evolve in response to periodic fluctuations in the environment. The paper sheds light on how […]
The Weitz Group is thrilled to announce that Marian Dominguez-Mirazo has successfully passed her thesis defense and has earned a Ph.D. in Quantitative Biosciences from the School of Biological Sciences at Georgia Tech. Her dissertation, “Impact of Latent Period Variability on Viral Dynamics,” offers new insight into how natural variation in phage infection timing influences […]
Congratulations to Emma Wachter, an undergraduate researcher in the Weitz Group, for successfully defending her Honors Thesis titled “Assessing mechanisms of non-exponential decay in viral systems.” After graduating this May, Emma will join the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute for a postbac before pursuing graduate studies. We’re excited to see what comes next!
Group member Raunek Dey, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Physics, has recently received three awards through the University of Maryland (UMD) to fund his research and conference travel. UMD Microbiome Center Summer Scholarship This scholarship was awarded to Raunak through the UMD Center of Excellence in Microbiome Studies to support his research project […]
Prof. Joshua Weitz will serve as the chair for a week-long, interactive course entitled ‘Quantitative Phage-Bacteria Dynamics Across Scales’, to be held in Paris this summer. Hosted by the Q-Life Institute at Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL) University, a public research university based in Paris, France, the course will take place from July 8-12. This […]
After nearly 10 years in development, the textbook “Quantitative Biosciences: Dynamics across Cells, Organisms, and Populations” and associated lab guides are now available to order from Princeton University Press and Amazon. Written by Prof. Weitz, the book serves as “a hands-on approach to quantitative reasoning in the life sciences.” Combined with companion guides in MATLAB, […]
Prof. Weitz was recently featured in EL PAÍS as an expert reference on why microbes may be motivated to consume viruses. “Because viral genomes are relatively densely packed – and because genetic material is rich in phosphorus – viruses have higher phosphorus content than typical microbes. Therefore, they might have a nutritional bonus.” — Joshua […]
This press release was originally published on https://today.ucsd.edu. As conceived by Charles Darwin in the 1800s, evolution is a slow, gradual process during which species adaptations are inherited incrementally over generations. However, today biologists can see how evolutionary changes unfold on much more accelerated timescales. Rather than the evocative plants and animals of the Galapagos […]
Look for our new paper out in Science, titled “Rapid bacteria-phage coevolution drives the emergence of multiscale networks.” This work is was done in collaboration with Justin Meyer and his group of researchers from the University of California in San Diego. The editor’s summary of this article reads: Real communities are characterized by complex interaction […]