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.
Raunak Dey, a physics graduate student in the group, was featured on UMD’s news page of the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences. “Some viruses can be useful, and some viruses can be harmful,” Dey said in this article. “The beauty of it is that the knowledge you learn from these model systems can […]
A new paper co-authored by Akash Arani (co-first author) and Prof. Joshua Weitz has been published in The ISME Journal. The study, titled “Episomal virus maintenance enables bacterial population recovery from infection and promotes virus–bacterial coexistence,” combines experimental and mathematical analyses to examine coexistence between Salinibacter ruber, a hypersaline bacterium, and its virus EM1. In […]
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 […]
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 […]