Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
News
Spring 2017: It was a big year for the postdocs in the group:
- Jonathan Friedman has accepted a faculty position at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Nicole Vega has accepted a faculty position at Emory University
- Alfonso Perez-Escudero has accepted a faculty/CNRS position at Tolouse, France
March 2017: MIT News covered Nic's paper demonstrating stochastic structuring in the worm microbiome.
Aug 2016: MIT News covered our recent paper exploring context-dependence of a mutualism.
May 2016: MIT News on Eugene and Arolyn's paper exploring a microbial cross-protection mutualism.
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The Gore Lab studies how interactions between individuals determine the evolutionary and ecological dynamics of microbial communities. Of particular focus are tipping points and alternative stables states, the emergence of "cheater" strategies and cross-feeding, and assembly of multi-species communities. 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
Mar 5 - 9, 2018: APS March Meeting in LA!
Mar 5, 2018: Jeff will give the quantitative biology seminar at UCLA.
Feb 25 - 28, 2018: Jeff will speak at a workshop at the Weizmann Institute in Israel.
Dec 14 - 22, 2017: Jeff will be teaching at a winter school in Bangalore, India.
Nov 17, 2017: Jeff will give a talk at Michigan State.
Oct 20, 2017: Jeff will give the biology colloquium at Tufts University.
Sept 18 - 19, 2017: Jeff will speak at the opening of the Zeeman Institute in Coventry, UK.
Sept 10 - 11, 2017: MIT Biophysics Retreat on Cape Cod.
Sept 5, 2017: Jeff will give the physics colloquium at Emory University.
Selected Recent Papers
Community structure follows simple assembly rules in microbial microcosms, Friedman et al, Nature Ecology and Evolution (2017)
Stochastic assembly produces heterogeneous communities in the C. elegans intestine, Nic Vega and Jeff Gore, PLOS Biology (2017)
Negative frequency-dependent interactions can underlie phenotypic heterogeneity in a clonal microbial population, Healey et al, Molecular Systems Biology (2016)
Oscillatory dynamics in a microbial cross-protection mutualism, Yurtsev*,Conwill* & Gore, PNAS (2016)
Self-organized patchiness facilitates survival in a cooperatively growing microbial population, Ratzke and Gore, Nature Microbiology (2016)
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Ecological Systems Biology
