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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…
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…
Niche theory for mutualism: A graphical approach to plant-pollinator network dynamics
Fernanda S. Valdovinos, Robert Marsland
Contemporary Niche Theory is a useful framework for understanding how organisms interact with each other and with their shared environment. Its graphical representation, popularize…
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…
Machine Learning as Ecology
Owen Howell, Cui Wenping, Robert Marsland +1
Machine learning methods have had spectacular success on numerous problems. Here we show that a prominent class of learning algorithms - including Support Vector Machines (SVMs) --…