Gabriel Bîrzu

Extensive recombination, selection, and asexual blooms shapethe diversity of the dominant clade of Prochlorococcus

This study analyzes single-cell genomes of Prochlorococcus HLII to show recombination connects the clade, genes evolve independently, and asexual blooms are eroded by recombination, with no stable ecotypes.

A resource for the comparison and integration of heterogeneous microbiome networks

The paper introduces MIND, a platform for comparing and integrating microbial interaction networks from diverse datasets.

Neither pulled nor pushed: Genetic drift and front wandering uncover a new class of reaction-diffusion waves

The paper identifies a new class of reaction-diffusion waves, called semi-pushed waves, which exhibit properties of both pulled and pushed waves, with unique fluctuation behavior.