Luis Zaman

This study investigates gap formation between interacting bacterial colonies using experiments and modeling, finding that nutrient competition and direct growth inhibition drive this phenomenon.

The paper studies how resistant and sensitive E. faecalis bacteria interact under antibiotic stress, showing cooperative behavior that allows survival at high drug concentrations.

This study shows that simple sequence repeats in Bartonella bacteria drive adaptation to specific rodent hosts through frameshift mutations in adhesin genes.

The paper introduces VHIP, a machine learning model that predicts virus-host interactions from genomic data, achieving 87.8% accuracy in predicting interactions at the species level.

This study shows relaxed selection can speed the evolution of complex adaptations requiring multiple deleterious steps by enabling faster valley crossing in evolutionary landscapes.

This paper develops a model showing that small populations and modest fitness improvements can accelerate evolutionary hill climbs in parallel turbidostats.