J. Gore

Collective dynamical regimes predict invasion success and impacts in microbial communities

The paper shows that invasion success and impacts in microbial communities depend on dynamics, interaction strength, and diversity, with more fluctuating and diverse communities being more invasible and having larger ecological effects.

Repulsion from slow-diffusing nutrients improves chemotaxis towards moving sources

The paper shows that repulsion from slow-diffusing nutrients enhances chemotaxis towards moving nutrient sources in E. coli by combining attraction to fast-diffusing nutrients.

Multistability driven by cooperative growth in microbial communities

This study shows that cooperative growth, not competition, drives multistability in microbial communities by demonstrating four stable states in a six-species respiratory tract community.

Complex ecosystems lose stability when resource consumption is out of niche

The paper shows that complex ecosystems become unstable when resource consumption deviates from niche ranges, leading to alternative states and species extinction.

Interfacial morphodynamics of proliferating microbial communities

The paper develops a continuum model to study interfacial morphodynamics in microbial communities, finding that interface stability depends on cell proliferation rates and substrate friction.

Resource competition can explain simplicity in microbial community assembly

This paper shows that resource competition can explain simple community assembly rules in microbial ecosystems, even when multiple species and resources are involved.

SpliceMutr enables pan-cancer analysis of splicing-derived neoantigen burden in tumors

SpliceMutr quantifies splicing-derived neoantigens across cancers, finding correlations with immune biomarkers and treatment response.

Strong Ethanol- and Frequency-Dependent Ecological Interactions in a Community of Wine-Fermenting Yeasts

The paper studies ecological interactions among wine-fermenting yeasts under varying ethanol concentrations, showing frequency-dependent bistable interactions and competitive hierarchies that influence community outcomes.

Warmer temperatures favor slower-growing bacteria in natural marine communities

The paper shows that higher seawater temperatures favor slower-growing bacteria in marine communities, explaining their dominance in warm conditions.

A taste for numbers: Caenorhabditis elegans foraging follows a low-dimensional rule of thumb

This study shows that Caenorhabditis elegans foraging behavior follows a one-dimensional rule based on food density, ignoring other environmental factors.

Community interactions drive the evolution of antibiotic tolerance in bacteria

This study shows that ecological interactions in bacterial communities can drive the evolution of antibiotic tolerance in susceptible strains.

Emergent phases of ecological diversity and dynamics mapped in microcosms

The paper demonstrates predictable emergent diversity and dynamics in microbial ecosystems by showing transitions between distinct dynamical phases as species number or interaction strength increases.

Diauxic lags explain unexpected coexistence in multi-resource environments

The paper shows slow-growing microbes can coexist with faster-growing species in multi-resource environments due to differences in diauxic lags, despite being excluded in single-resource environments.

Slow expanders invade by forming dented fronts in microbial colonies

The paper shows slower microbial mutants can outcompete faster ones in spatial growth by forming dented V-shaped sectors, challenging the assumption that faster expansion always leads to dominance.

Resource-diversity relationships in bacterial communities reflect the network structure of microbial metabolism

The paper investigates how resource diversity affects microbial community diversity by analyzing metabolic networks and cross-feeding interactions in soil-derived bacterial communities.

Horizontal gene transfer becomes disadvantageous in rapidly fluctuating environments

The paper shows that horizontal gene transfer (HGT) can be disadvantageous in rapidly fluctuating environments, as it creates a trade-off between adaptation speed and fitness, leading to an optimal HGT rate that decreases with environmental fluctuation speed.

Environmental fluctuations reshape an unexpected diversity-disturbance relationship in a microbial community

The paper investigates how environmental disturbances affect microbial community diversity by decomposing disturbances into intensity and fluctuation components and observing their effects on soil-derived bacterial communities.

Positive interactions are common among culturable bacteria

The paper measures over 150,000 bacterial cocultures and finds that growth-promoting interactions are common and depend on differences in nutrient consumption preferences.

Inversion of pheromone preference optimizes foraging in C. elegans

This study shows that C. elegans invert their pheromone preference based on when they leave a food patch, optimizing foraging efficiency through associative learning.

Colonization with heterologous bacteria reprograms a Caenorhabditis elegans nutritional phenotype

This study shows that introducing cellulolytic bacteria into C. elegans allows the host to utilize cellulose as a carbon source, improving nutrition and larval yield.

Higher Temperatures Generically Favor Slower-Growing Bacterial Species in Multispecies Communities

The paper predicts that higher temperatures favor slower-growing bacterial species in communities and validates this with experimental cocultures.

Emergence of alternative stable states in microbial communities in a fluctuating environment

The paper shows that environmental fluctuations can lead to alternative stable states in microbial communities, with outcomes dependent on initial conditions and not timing, confirmed by both experiments and a Lotka-Volterra model.

Strength of species interactions determines biodiversity and stability in microbial communities

The paper shows that nutrient concentrations affect microbial community interactions, leading to changes in biodiversity and stability.

Cooperation mitigates diversity loss in a spatially expanding microbial population

This study shows that cooperation in microbial populations reduces genetic diversity loss during spatial expansion by altering the dynamics of expansion fronts.

Transient invaders can induce shifts between alternative stable states of microbial communities

Transient invaders can cause lasting shifts in community composition and function.

Interspecies bacterial competition determines community assembly in the C. elegans intestine

The paper studies bacterial community assembly in C. elegans by testing pairwise and trio interactions, finding that interspecies competition and environmental factors shape microbial composition.

Attraction to pheromones in Caenorhabditis elegans can be reversed through associative learning

This study shows that Caenorhabditis elegans can reverse attraction to ascaroside pheromones through associative learning involving food deprivation.

Mortality causes universal changes in microbial community composition

The paper shows that increased mortality favors faster-growing microbes in multispecies communities, reversing competitive outcomes based on growth rate and competitive ability tradeoffs.

Disentangling bacterial invasiveness from lethality in an experimental host-pathogen system

This study disentangles bacterial lethality and invasiveness by analyzing survival curves of C. elegans infected with three pathogens, revealing distinct colonization and lethality traits.

Migration alters oscillatory dynamics and promotes survival in connected bacterial populations

The paper shows that intermediate migration rates enhance survival of connected bacterial populations under antibiotic stress by altering oscillatory dynamics rather than through recolonization.