Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
News
March 2017: Jonathan has accepted a faculty position at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Nic is currently trying to decide where to go. Congrats to both of them!
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.
July 2015: Jeff is now an Associate Professor!
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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!
Dec 14 - 22, 2017: Jeff will be teaching a winter school in Bangalore, India.
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.
July 28, 2017: Jeff will speak at the q-bio meeting to be held at Rutgers in NJ.
July 3 - 7, 2017: Jeff will speak at a workshop on microbial communities in Trieste, Italy.
June 1 - 5, 2017: Jeff will give a talk at the annual meeting of the American Society of Microbiology in New Orleans.
May 22, 2017: Jeff and Shreyas will give a talk at the SIAM meeting on dynamical systems in Utah.
April 20 - May 5, 2017: Jeff will speak at the applied statistical physics meeting in Santa Fe sponsored by LANL.
April 28 - 30, 2017: Jeff will attend the Scialog meeting supporting research at the interface of physics and biology.
Mar 28, 2017: Jeff will give the biology colloquium at Boston College.
Mar 13-17, 2017: Jeff, Clare, Shreyas, and Sarah will speak at the APS March Meeting in New Orleans.
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)
GORElaboratory
Ecological Systems Biology
