Weitz Group

Investigating how viruses transform human health and the fate of our planet

Investigating how viruses transform human health and the fate of our planet.      

Publications: Foundations of Quantitative Viral Ecology

Title Year Journal
Infect while the iron is scarce: nutrient-explicit phage-bacteria games 2021 Theoretical Ecology
A Primer for Microbiome Time-Series Analysis 2020 Frontiers in Genetics
When to be Temperate: On the Fitness Benefits of Lysis vs. Lysogeny 2020 Virus Evolution
Large sample spaces do not imply biological systems are ‘fine-tuned’ 2020 Journal of Theoretical Biology
Viral invasion fitness across a continuum from lysis to latency 2019 Virus Evolution
Quantitative Infection Dynamics of Cafeteria Roenbergensis Virus 2018 Viruses
Information sharing for a coordination game in fluctuating environments 2018 Journal of Theoretical Biology
Lysis, lysogeny and virus–microbe ratios 2017 Nature
Viral ecology comes of age 2017 Environmental Microbiology Reports
Disentangling niche competition from grazing mortality in phytoplankton dilution experiments 2017 PloS One
Conflicting attachment and the growth of bipartite networks 2016 Physical Review E
Multiple regimes of robust patterns between network structure and biodiversity 2015 Scientific Reports
Reconstructing weighted networks from dynamics 2015 Physical Review E
Viral tagging reveals discrete populations in Synechococcus viral genome sequence space 2014 Nature
The virus of my virus is my friend: Ecological effects of virophage with alternative modes of coinfection 2014 Journal of Theoretical Biology
Extracting connectivity from dynamics of networks with uniform bidirectional coupling 2013 Physical Review E
A guide to sensitivity analysis of quantitative models of gene expression dynamics 2013 Methods
Mechanisms of multi-strain coexistence in host–phage systems with nested infection networks 2013 Journal of Theoretical Biology
Phage–bacteria infection networks 2013 Trends in Microbiology
Distinguishing between indirect and direct modes of transmission using epidemiological time series 2013 The American Naturalist
Testing the metabolic theory of ecology 2012 Ecology Letters
Hierarchical Ordering of Reticular Networks 2012 PloS One
A non-negative matrix factorization framework for identifying modular patterns in metagenomic profile data 2012 Journal of Mathematical Biology
To lyse or not to lyse: transient-mediated stochastic fate determination in cells infected by bacteriophages 2011 PLoS Computational Biology
Quantifying enzymatic lysis: estimating the combined effects of chemistry, physiology and physics 2010 Physical Biology
Bacterivorous grazers facilitate organic matter decomposition: a stoichiometric modeling approach 2009 FEMS Microbiology Ecology
Unsupervised statistical clustering of environmental shotgun sequences 2009 BMC Bioinformatics
Collective decision making in bacterial viruses 2008 Biophysical Journal
Small-scale copy number variation and large-scale changes in gene expression 2008 PNAS
Size and scaling of predator–prey dynamics 2006 Ecology Letters

The Weitz Group

Investigating how viruses transform human health and the fate of our planet

310 Ferst Dr
School of Biological Sciences
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332, USA

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