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Cross-feeding shapes both competition and cooperation in microbial ecosystems
Pankaj Mehta, Robert Marsland
Recent work suggests that cross-feeding -- the secretion and consumption of metabolic biproducts by microbes -- is essential for understanding microbial ecology. Yet how cross-feed…
Understanding Species Abundance Distributions in Complex Ecosystems of Interacting Species
Jim Wu, Pankaj Mehta, David Schwab
Niche and neutral theory are two prevailing, yet much debated, ideas in ecology proposed to explain the patterns of biodiversity. Whereas niche theory emphasizes selective differen…
Arnol'd Tongues in Oscillator Systems with Nonuniform Spatial Driving
Alexander Golden, Allyson E. Sgro, Pankaj Mehta
Nonlinear oscillator systems are ubiquitous in biology and physics, and their control is a practical problem in many experimental systems. Here we study this problem in the context…
Tregs self-organize into a "computing ecosystem" and implement a sophisticated optimization algorithm for mediating immune response
Robert Marsland, Owen Howell, Andreas Mayer +1
Regulatory T cells (Tregs) play a crucial role in mediating immune response. Yet an algorithmic understanding of the role of Tregs in adaptive immunity remains lacking. Here, we pr…
Data-driven modeling reveals a universal dynamic underlying the COVID-19 pandemic under social distancing
Robert Marsland, Pankaj Mehta
We show that the COVID-19 pandemic under social distancing exhibits universal dynamics. The cumulative numbers of both infections and deaths quickly cross over from exponential gro…
Effect of resource dynamics on species packing in diverse ecosystems
Wenping Cui, Robert Marsland, Pankaj Mehta
The competitive exclusion principle asserts that coexisting species must occupy distinct ecological niches (i.e. the number of surviving species can not exceed the number of resour…