Josephine Solowiej-Wedderburn

This study uses a dynamical systems framework to show phagocytosis can evolve from cooperative microbial communities and coexist with original cooperators under specific ecological conditions.

The paper assesses microbial interactions across environments using genome-scale metabolic networks, finding that most bacterial pairs can both compete and cooperate depending on resource availability.

This study shows that focal adhesion distribution affects force balance in epithelial monolayers, revealing non-uniform contractile patterns that alter force transmission.