Vincent Vandenbroucke

The paper introduces synthetic niches using genetic toggle switches to control microbial co-cultures but finds they are vulnerable to mutational escape under cultivation.

The paper identifies a Fitness-Entropy Compensation mechanism that stabilizes cell populations by balancing growth and gene expression through increased expression diversity.

The paper investigates how reducing the switching cost of burdensome gene circuits in E. coli improves population homogeneity and productivity.

The paper identifies conditions for intrinsic phenotypic oscillations in bacterial cultures without genetic oscillators or external forcing, validated in Bacillus subtilis.