News

2020


Aug 13: Our paper with Keisuke Ishihara on traveling waves in replicating persistent random walks came out in New Journal of Physics.

Aug 10: Ashish George has defended his thesis: "Eco-evolutionary dynamics of microbial communities with heterogeneous growth and dispersal". Upon graduation, he is starting a postdoc with James O'Dwyer and Sergey Maslov at UIUC.

May 14: Kirill Korolev has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. 

Mar 2-6: We would go to the APS March Meeting :(

Jan 16: Alex Golden is giving a talk at a workshop at Princeton on Collective Cell Migration.


2019

Oct 07: Our paper with Jeff Gore on genetic diversity in pulled vs. pushed expansions was published in PNAS.

Sep 08: Our paper about how cooperative dispersal can drastically alter genetic drift during range expansions has appeared in Ecology Letters.

July 29: Gabriel Birzu has defended his thesis: "Stochastic reaction-diffusion fronts: Applications to ecology and evolution". He will be starting a postdoc with Daniel Fisher at Stanford in October.

July 24: Our paper about evolution during range expansions with Joao Xavier and Maxim Deforet came out in American Naturalist. 

June 22: Gabriel Birzu is giving a talk at the 2019 Evolution Meeting in Providence, RI. 

June 01: Our paper about velocity locking in structured environments came out in Theoretical Population Biology. 

May 30-31: We are hosting the second Theory of Living Systems Meeting at BU.

May 23: Kirill Korolev leads a discussion on quantitative ecology and evolutionary dynamics at Harvard's QuantBio Symposium on The Future of Quantitative Biology.

May 02: Kirill Korolev is giving a talk at Materials Research Science and Engineering seminar series at  Brandeis University (The role of space in population dynamics). 

Apr 12: Kirill Korolev is giving a talk at the Theory & Biology conference organized by the Simons foundation (Universality classes in the evolutionary dynamics of expanding populations).

Mar 20: Kirill Korolev is giving a physics colloquium at the University of Michigan (Universality classes in the evolutionary dynamics of expanding populations).

Mar 04-08: Gabriel Birzu, Ashish George, and Kirill Korolev are giving talks at the APS March meeting.

Mar 01: Kirill Korolev is giving a talk at Frontiers in Quantitative and Systems Biology seminar series run by QCBio at UCLA (The role of space in population dynamics).

Feb 27: Kirill Korolev is giving a talk at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center at a joint seminar of Mathematical Modeling and Basic Biology groups (The role of space in population dynamics).

Feb 25: Kirill Korolev has joined the editorial board of JSTAT. 

Feb 05: Our paper with Pankaj Mehta and others on cross-feeding in complex microbial communities has been published in PLoS Computational Biology.


2018

Dec 27: Our paper on the fitness effects of cellular chirality came out in PLoS Computational Biology.

Nov 29: Our paper on microbiota in Crohn's disease in a non-Western population came out in Gut Pathogens.

Oct 21: Our paper on fungal dysbiosis in Crohn's disease came out in WJG.

Oct 17-19: Kirill Korolev is attending the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Annual Meeting organized by the Simons Foundation in NYC.

Sep 24: Our paper with Shyam Erramilli and others has been published in Nano Futures. 

Jul 11-13: Kirill Korolev is attending the Cottrell Scholar Conference organized by RCSA in Tucson, AZ.

Jul 1-10: Kirill Korolev is giving a talk at the workshop for physicists working on cancer at Weizmann Institute of Science (Population genetics and ecology of spatially growing populations).


May 24-25: We are hosting the first annual Theory in Biology conference at BU with the support of the Simons Foundation.

Apr 24: Kirill Korolev is presenting at Microbiome: Applications & Future organized by Synthetic Biology Center at MIT.

Apr 19: Ashish B. George won a travel grant to go to the q-bio conference this summer.

Apr 13: Kirill Korolev is at Simons Conference on Theory & Biology.

Apr 04: Rajita Menon has defended her thesis: "Network Topology and Community Function in Spatial Microbial Communities". She will be heading to Vedanta Biosciences upon graduation.

Apr 02: Our paper with Oskar Hallatschek reporting a new class of reaction-diffusion waves came out in PNAS.

Mar 06: Kirill Korolev is giving a talk at the APS March Meeting in Los Angeles (Neither pulled nor pushed: Genetic drift and front wandering uncover a new class of reaction-diffusion waves).

Feb 06: Kirill Korolev is giving a talk at the Harvard CMT Kid's seminar.

Jan 31: Kirill Korolev is giving a talk at the Aspen Winter Conference on Fundamental Problems in Active Matter.

Jan 26: Rajita Menon is giving a talk at the MIT Ecology Meeting.

Jan 16: Our paper on the role of interspecific interactions in microbiome studies came out in PLoS Computational Biology.


2017

Dec 07: Kirill Korolev is giving a talk at Biomathematics seminar series at Harvard University.

Sep 01: Sakib Matin joined the group.

Aug 01: The project on the evolution of temporally-regulated cooperative dispersal by Kirill Korolev and Minsu Kim from Emory University have been selected for funding by the Gordon and Betty Moore foundation.

Jul 25-28: Kirill Korolev is giving a talk at the 11th q-bio conference at Rutgers University on the self-assembly of asters. 


Jul 03-07: Kirill Korolev is giving a talk at the Joint ICGEB-ICTP-APCTP Workshop on Systems Biology and Molecular Economy of Microbial Communities in Trieste, Italy, on the role of spatial structure in multi-species microbial communities.

Jun 15: Rajita Menon is giving a talk on the role of microbial interactions in microbiome studies at the 23rd Boston Bacterial Meeting.

Apr 27-30: Kirill Korolev is attending the third Scialog: Molecules Come to Life cosponsored by RCSA, NIH, and Moore Foundation.

Apr 07: Rajita Menon and Kirill Korolev are at the Theory & Biology Conference organized by the Simons Foundation in NYC.

Mar 31: Our paper with Lene Oddershede on the mechanistic origins of chirality in E. coli colonies came out in the ISME Journal.

Mar 13: Kirill Korolev is giving a talk at the APS March Meeting in New Orleans (Assembly and control of large microtubule complexes).

Feb 21: Kirill Korolev receives a Cottrell Scholar Award from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement. 

Feb 16: Kirill Korolev is giving a talk at BU Microbiome Day.


Jan 18: Kirill Korolev and Daniel Segre received a Research Award from the Hariri Institute.

Jan 02: Our paper on the role of fungi in inflammatory bowel disease came out in the Journal of Crohn's and Colitis.


2016

Dec 1: Kirill Korolev is giving a talk at the Physics Colloquium at the University of Massachusetts Boston (To grow or not to grow: From microtubules to cancer).

Nov 30: Kirill Korolev contributed a commentary on a recent paper by Daniele De Martino, Fabrizio Capuani, and Andrea De Martino  for the Condensed Matter Journal Club (Entropic costs of metabolic regulation).

Nov 28: Our paper with Keisuke Ishihara and Timothy Mitchison on how large microtubule complexes assemble came out in eLife.

Nov 01: Kirill Korolev is giving a talk at Center for Theoretical Biological Physics at Rice University (Beyond the standard model of growth: From chiral cells to polymer networks).

Oct 20-21: Kirill Korolev is attending Mathematics and Physical Sciences Annual Meeting in the New York City organized by Simons Foundation. 

Sep 13: Kirill Korolev is giving a talk at Widely Applied Mathematics seminar at Harvard University.


Jun 22: Gabriel Birzu has passed his qualifying exam.

Jun 17: Kirill Korolev was appointed as a Simons Investigator in the Mathematical Modeling of Living Systems. 

Jun 15: Ashish Bino George is talking about his work on chiral growth at the 22nd Boston Bacterial Meeting

May 19: Ashish Bino George has passed his qualifying exam.

May 18: Kirill Korolev is giving a talk at Squishy Physics on the assembly and control of large microtubule complexes at Harvard University.

May 17: Rajita Menon was awarded a Hariri Graduate Fellowship.

May 16: Our paper with Jeff Gore about a transition from pulled to pushed expansions came out in PNAS; see also a commentary by Mark Lewis.

Apr 26: Rajita Menon was awarded an Alvaro Roccaro Memorial Prize by the BU Physics Department for her contributions to the Physics of Living Systems.

Mar 31: Kirill Korolev is attending the second Scialog: Molecules Come to Life. 

Mar 25: Kirill Korolev is giving a talk at Channing Network Science Seminar at Harvard Medical School.

Mar 14-18: APS March Meeting. Kirill Korolev and  Jeff Gore have co-organized a session complex microbial communities; there is also a talk and a poster.

Feb 02: Our paper with Harland Winter on microbiome changes in Crohn's disease came out in Cell Reports.

Jan 29: Kirill Korolev is giving a talk at the First Quantitative Ecology Meeting at MIT; Rajita Menon, Gabriel Birzu, and Ashish Bino George are presenting posters.

Jan 08: Kirill Korolev is giving a talk on invasion arrest in cooperative populations at an Aspen Winter Conference on Populations, Evolution, and Physics.


2015

Nov 16: Kirill Korolev is giving a talk at Computational Biology and Bioinformatics seminar series at Duke University.

Nov 13: Our paper on the evolution of dispersal in cooperative populations came out in Physical Review Letters; see also this Focus article.

Sep 30: Kirill Korolev is giving a talk at the Hariri Institute.

Sep 28: Kirill Korolev is named a Junior Faculty Fellow at the Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Sciences & Engineering.

Aug 11: Our paper with Jeff Gore about predicting ecological transitions under multiple environmental drivers came out in PNAS.


Jun 19: Rajita Menon is giving a talk on how public good diffusion affects cross-feeding at the 21st Boston Bacterial Meeting.

Apr 23: Our paper about the role of metabolite diffusion in microbial cross-feeding came out in Physical Review Letters; see also this Synopsis.

Mar 13: Kirill Korolev was selected a Scialog Fellow and is attending the first Scialog: Molecules Come to Life.

Mar 05: Kirill Korolev is giving an invited talk at APS March Meeting.

Feb 27: Rajita Menon has passed her qualifying exam.


2014

Oct 24: Kirill Korolev is giving a talk at the annual NASPGHAN meeting about our work on microbiome in IBD.

Oct 21: Our paper with Leonid Mirny on role of damaging mutations in cancer came out in PNAS.

Aug 15: Kirill Korolev is giving a talk at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America.

Jun 23: Kirill Korolev is giving a talk at the annual Evolution Meeting.

May 03: Kirill Korolev is giving a talk at Digestive Disease Week on microbiome changes in Crohn's disease.

Apr 17: Our perspective on Allee effects in cancer came out in Nature Reviews Cancer; see also an article in MIT News.

Mar 03: Kirill Korolev is giving a talk at Biology Department Seminar at BU.

Feb 01: Our paper with Irene Chen on horizontal gene transfer inside microbial biofilms came out in Biophysical Journal.