D. Demory

Accounting for Cellular-Level Variation in Lysis: Implications for Virus-Host Dynamics

This paper shows that one-step growth curves underestimate the mean latent period of bacteriophages due to cellular-level variability in lysis timing, and proposes a computational framework to correct this bias.

Emergence and maintenance of stable coexistence during a long-term multicellular evolution experiment

This study shows how multicellularity evolves through niche partitioning and adaptive divergence in snowflake yeast, leading to stable coexistence via a trade-off between size and competitiveness for oxygen.

Global phylogeography of marine Synechococcus in coastal areas reveals strikingly different communities than in the open ocean

The paper analyzes global coastal Synechococcus communities using metagenomic data, revealing distinct community structures and niche partitioning compared to open-ocean environments.

Disentangling top-down drivers of mortality underlying diel population dynamics of Prochlorococcus in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre

The paper develops multitrophic models to investigate top-down and bottom-up drivers of Prochlorococcus population dynamics in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, finding grazers are the primary top-down factor despite high viral densities.

A thermal trade-off between viral production and degradation drives phytoplankton-virus population dynamics

The paper models how temperature affects viral production and degradation in phytoplankton-virus interactions, showing climate change could alter host-virus dynamics.

Linking light-dependent life history traits with population dynamics for Prochlorococcus and cyanophage

The paper develops a light-driven population model to examine how light-dependent life history traits of Prochlorococcus and cyanophage influence population dynamics, finding that light-dependent adsorption improves model fits but lysis saturation at high virus-to-cell ratios also plays a key role.