Experiments with Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa and their lytic phages. Theoretical and experimental studies of the mechanisms responsible for maintaining stable communities of bacteria and bacteriophage. With Brandon Berryhill, Rodrigo Garcia, Waqas Chaudhry, Esther Lee, Adithi Govindan, Nicole Vega, Yixuan (Jack) Peng and Marie-Agnes Petit The population and evolutionary dynamics lysogeny and temperate bacteriophage. If you want information about these ongoing studies you are welcome to write to me Bruce or by clicking on the highlighted names. The following is a list the projects on which we are currently (August 2021) working or recently completed, and the names of the primary investigator(s) involved in these studies. While some of our research address purely academic ecological and evolutionary questions, the primary focus of our research is the application of the theory and methodology of population and evolutionary biology to health-related issues. Our research includes mathematical and computer simulation modeling and experiments on the population and evolutionary biology of bacteria and their viruses and accessory genetic elements.

'Eukaryotes are great to sleep with, but bacteria are far better for research' That means that there are errors in the biological assumptions upon which the model is based, and ideally point to where those errors are and how they should be modified. Models can be more useful when they don’t fit the data, than when they do. 'For us, natural and not-so-natural selection is about dN/dt and not dN/dS.'Īll models and model systems are wrong, some are useful. (Borrowed with a 'friendly ammendent from George Box)

'Just because a project may be useful, doesn't mean it's not interesting, high-quality and delicious to work on Science.' 'Data may be a crutch for the insecure, but really self-confident scientists subject their hypotheses to tests that can reject them' 'Doing research in population biology without mathematical and/or computer simulation models is like playing tennis without a net or boundary lines'. (Stolen with modification from Robert Frost)

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