Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
News
Dec, 2014: Lei Dai has been awarded the Thesis Prize by the Division of Biological Physics of the American Physical Society!
Sept 12, 2013: Jeff has been awarded the Department's Buechner Teaching Award!
Feb 28, 2013: Jeff was selected as an Allen Distinguished Investigator!
Sept 14, 2012: Jeff received an NIH New Innovator Award!
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The Gore Lab uses experimental microbial populations to study how interactions between individuals determine the evolutionary and ecological dynamics of populations. In particular, cooperatively growing populations can collapse catastrophically and may be susceptible to "cheating" behaviors. The laboratory is composed of an interdisciplinary group of scientists interested in learning from each other to effectively combine experiments, theory and modeling.
Gore Laboratory
Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Physics of Living Systems Group
400 Technology Square, NE46-602
Cambridge, MA 02139
Upcoming Talks
Aug 10 - 14, 2015: Jeff will give an invited talk at the 15th European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) Meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland.
July 19 - July 25, 2015: Jeff will be an instructor at the Lipari Summer School in Italy.
May 17 - 21, 2015: Jeff will give a plenary talk at the SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems in Snowbird, Utah. Nov 17, 2014 abstract submission deadline.
April 27 - May 1, 2015: Jeff will speak at the Mathematical Biosciences Institute Workshop on Evolutionary Game Theory.
April 6, 2015: Jeff will speak at the annual symposium of the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, WA.
Mar 12 - 15, 2015: Jeff will participate in the Scialog gathering in Arizona.
Mar 2 - 6, 2015: Many members of the lab will attend the APS March Meeting. Nov abstract deadline.
Mar 1 - 6, 2015: Jeff will give a talk at the annual Pew Scholars Meeting in Puerto Rico.
Feb 9 - 10, 2015: Jeff will give a talk at the annual gathering of the Allen Distinguished Investigators (this year in La Jolla, CA).
Selected Recent Papers
Clustering in community structure across replicate ecosystems following a long-term bacterial evolution experiment, Celiker and Gore, Nature Communications (2014)
Dynamics of a producer-freeloader ecosystem on the brink of collapse, Chen*, Sanchez*, Dai, and Gore, Nature Communications (2014)
Slower recovery in space before collapse of connected populations, Dai et al, Nature (2013)
Feedback between population and evolutionary dynamics determines the fate of social microbial populations, Sanchez and Gore, PLOS Biology (2013)
Generic indicators for loss of resilience before a tipping point leading to population collapse, Dai*, Vorselen* et al, Science (2012)
GORElaboratory
Ecological Systems Biology
