Aviv Bergman

No Trade-Offs Required: Cross-Feeding From Survival Alone

This paper shows that cross-feeding in microbial communities can evolve from energy acquisition alone, without requiring specific metabolic trade-offs or exchange mechanisms.

Robustness Revisited: On the Neutral Evolution of Centrality and Localization

This paper examines how mutation, recombination, and population dynamics affect evolutionary robustness and localization in haploid and diploid populations across different landscape structures.

The Dynamics of Cryptococcus neoformans infection in Galleria mellonella

This study uses timelapse imaging to analyze Cryptococcus neoformans infection dynamics in Galleria mellonella, revealing two distinct mortality phases and deterministic infection progression.

Phenotypic Pliancy and the Breakdown of Epigenetic Polycomb Mechanisms

This paper introduces a computational model to study phenotypic pliancy, showing it results from Polycomb mechanism dysregulation and is observed in metastatic cancer cells.

Genetic analysis of mitochondrial DNA copy number and associated traits identifies loci implicated in nucleotide metabolism, platelet activation, and megakaryocyte proliferation, and reveals a causal association of mitochondrial function with mortality

This study identifies 100 loci associated with mitochondrial DNA copy number and finds causal links between mitochondrial function and mortality.

Mutation of the ATPase domain of MutS homolog-5 (MSH5) reveals a requirement for a functional MutSγ complex for all crossovers in mammalian meiosis

This study shows that a functional MutSγ complex is required for all crossovers in mammalian meiosis, even though class II crossovers were thought to be MutSγ-independent.

The Process Pathway Model of bacterial growth

This paper develops a Process Pathway Model to describe bacterial growth, showing it accurately captures temperature dependence and provides a computationally feasible intermediate complexity model.