C. Weinberger

The Interplay of Resource Availability and Parent Foraging Strategies on Juvenile Sparrow Individual Specialization

This study finds that juvenile sparrows show greater individual specialization during periods of high food availability, contrasting with adults who maintain stable niche widths, highlighting the role of parental care in buffering offspring from resource fluctuations.

Characterizing receptor flexibility to predict mutations that lead to human adaptation of influenza hemagglutinin

The paper uses molecular dynamics simulations to predict mutations in influenza hemagglutinin that enhance binding to human sialic acid receptors, validated by experiments.