Learning to learn by using nonequilibrium training protocols for adaptable materials

MJ Falk, J Wu, A Matthews… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Evolution in time-varying environments naturally leads to adaptable biological systems that
can easily switch functionalities. Advances in the synthesis of environmentally responsive …

Temporal networks in biology and medicine: a survey on models, algorithms, and tools

MM Hosseinzadeh, M Cannataro, PH Guzzi… - … Modeling Analysis in …, 2022 - Springer
The use of static graphs for modelling and analysis of biological and biomedical data plays a
key role in biomedical research. However, many real-world scenarios present dynamic …

Rate thresholds in cell signaling have functional and phenotypic consequences in non-linear time-dependent environments

A Thiemicke, G Neuert - Frontiers in cell and developmental biology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
All cells employ signal transduction pathways to respond to physiologically relevant
extracellular cytokines, stressors, nutrient levels, hormones, morphogens, and other stimuli …

Determining growth rates from bright-field images of budding cells through identifying overlaps

JMJ Pietsch, AF Muñoz, DYA Adjavon, I Farquhar… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Much of biochemical regulation ultimately controls growth rate, particularly in microbes.
Although time-lapse microscopy visualises cells, determining their growth rates is …

In vivo functional phenotypes from a computational epistatic model of evolution

S Alvarez, CM Nartey, N Mercado… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Computational models of evolution are valuable for understanding the dynamics of
sequence variation, to infer phylogenetic relationships or potential evolutionary pathways …

Coupled environmental and demographic fluctuations shape the evolution of cooperative antimicrobial resistance

L Hernández-Navarro, M Asker… - Journal of the …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
There is a pressing need to better understand how microbial populations respond to
antimicrobial drugs, and to find mechanisms to possibly eradicate antimicrobial-resistant …

Molecular tug of war reveals adaptive potential of an immune cell repertoire

H Jiang, S Wang - Physical Review X, 2023 - APS
The adaptive immune system constantly remodels its lymphocyte repertoire for better
protection against future pathogens. Its ability to improve antigen recognition on the fly relies …

Driven disordered systems approach to biological evolution in changing environments

SG Das, J Krug, M Mungan - Physical Review X, 2022 - APS
Biological evolution of a population is governed by the fitness landscape, which is a map
from genotype to fitness. However, a fitness landscape depends on the organism's …

Noninvasive inference methods for interaction and noise intensities of coupled oscillators using only spike time data

F Mori, H Kori - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Measurements of interaction intensity are generally achieved by observing responses to
perturbations. In biological and chemical systems, external stimuli tend to deteriorate their …

[HTML][HTML] Modulation of nuclear and cytoplasmic mRNA fluctuations by time-dependent stimuli: Analytical distributions

T Filatova, N Popović, R Grima - Mathematical biosciences, 2022 - Elsevier
Temporal variation of environmental stimuli leads to changes in gene expression. Since the
latter is noisy and since many reaction events occur between the birth and death of an …