Mathias Franz

This study shows that gut microbiota can suppress pathogen proliferation after host death, reducing pathogen fitness and potentially promoting the evolution of less virulent pathogens.

The paper develops a mathematical model based on danger theory to show that cost-based immune activation favors avirulence in microbes, proposing the danger hypothesis of virulence evolution.

This study investigates how injection site and body part affect pathogen spatial dynamics and infection outcomes in Drosophila using Providencia burhodogranariea.

This study investigates whether Imd-dependent AMPs mediate indirect interactions between gut microbiota and pathogens in a tripartite context, finding that Imd-independent AMPs and microbiota-mediated immune priming influence infection outcomes.

The paper investigates how population bottlenecks affect bacterial resistance evolution to antimicrobial peptides in E. coli, finding that mutator strains in large populations develop higher resistance.