Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
News
April 2014: Nature Reviews Cancer published our "Perspective" on how tipping points and cooperation may be relevant to cancer!
Dec 20, 2013: Avihu's paper with Pilpel studying tRNA evolution was published in eLife!
Nov 29, 2013: Barrett's paper with Terry Hwa demonstrating bistability in cell growth in antibiotics was published in Science!
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!
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
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.
Mar 12 - 15, 2015: Jeff will participate in the Scialog gathering
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.
Jan 27, 2015: Jeff will give the colloquium for the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Dept at Brown.
Jan 15, 2015: Jeff will give the Physics Dept colloquium at Case Western Reserve University.
Dec 15 - 17: Jeff will be at the HRHR Symposium in Bethesda for his New Innovator Award.
Nov 14, 2014: Jeff will give a seminar at Berkeley.
Nov 13, 2014: Jeff will give the BBC seminar at UCSF.
Oct 15 - 17, 2014: Jeff will speak in Germany at the Phenotypic Heterogeneity and Sociobiology in Bacteria Conference.
Oct 8, 2014: Jeff will give the Princeton Molecular and Cell Biology colloquium.
Sept 14 - 15, 2014: The lab will attend the MIT biophysics retreat on Cape Cod.
Sept 8, 2014: Jeff will speak at the Duke University Computational Biology Seminar Series.
August 13 - 16, 2014: Nic Vega and Eugene Yurtsev will present at the q-bio meeting in Santa Fe, NM.
August 16 - 20, 2014: Jeff will be visiting Cambridge University as part of a workshop on microbial populations.
August 11 - 14, 2014: Jeff will speak at the Lorenz Center in Leiden at a workshop on "Fluctuations in population biology, epidemiology, and evolution."
July 2014: Jeff will spend a week pretending to be a field ecologist in the Mediterranean!
Selected Recent Papers
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)
Bacterial cheating drives the population dynamics of cooperative antibiotic resistance plasmids, Yurtsev et al, Molecular Systems 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
