David Demory

This study integrates dynamical models, carbon flux networks, and direct measurements to better understand the role of viruses in marine carbon cycling.

The paper compares implicit and explicit representations of viral dynamics in marine ecosystem models, finding that explicit models better capture virus-induced mortality effects on phytoplankton blooms.

The paper investigates how virus-grazer interactions affect Prochlorococcus mortality, virus production, and organic matter aggregation in a simplified marine ecosystem.

The paper models viral impacts on ocean productivity and biogeochemistry, showing that high viral shunt efficiency enhances productivity across much of the global ocean.

This paper develops a community model to investigate mechanisms enabling coexistence of viruses, grazers, and phytoplankton in marine ecosystems, finding that viral life history traits and predator mortality terms are critical for stability.

This study shows that higher-order interactions and density-dependent feedback stabilize phage-bacteria communities, challenging pairwise model predictions of population collapse.

This study analyzes the genomes of Ostreococcus tauri-infecting viruses, identifying a hypervariable region linked to host-virus interactions and revealing genetic diversity and potential host-switching events.

This study investigates how temperature influences the biogeography of marine giant viruses infecting Micromonas, using modeling and observational data to show temperature drives viral distribution and population dynamics.

This paper shows that one-step growth curves underestimate the mean latent period of bacteriophages due to cellular-level variability in lysis timing, and proposes a computational framework to correct this bias.