Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
News

Sept 2024: Congratulations to Jiliang Hu for receiving the DBIO Dissertation Award for "For groundbreaking biophysical contributions to microbial ecology that bridge experiment and theory, showing how only a few coarse-grained features of ecological networks can predict emergent phases of diversity, dynamics, and invasibility in microbial communities."

Summer 2024: Congratulations to group members who have recently accepted faculty positions: Martina at Yale, Jiliang at Tsinghua, and Clare at NYU.

February 2023: The Physics of Living Systems Group moved to new space in Building 4!

October, 2022: Congratulations to Jiliang and team for their paper in Science! This paper had a perspective.

January, 2021: Jeff was selected as one of the two inaugural Schmidt Science Polymaths.

October, 2020: Gabriel Popkin wrote an article covering our work in Quanta Magazine.

May 14, 2018: Jeff was featured on the MIT webpage!

May 1, 2018: Natalie Angier at the NY Times wrote "A Population That Pollutes Itself Into Extinction (and It’s Not Us)". 

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The Gore Lab studies how interactions between individuals determine the evolutionary and ecological dynamics of multi-species microbial communities. Of particular focus are alternative stables states, community assembly, cross-feeding, and the emergence of "cheater" strategies. The laboratory is composed of an interdisciplinary group of scientists interested in learning from each  other to effectively combine experiments, theory, and modeling.
Gore Laboratory
Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Physics of Living Systems Group
77 Massachusetts Avenue, 4-332
Cambridge, MA 02139
Physics of Living Systems @MIT

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 Ecological Systems Biology
Former Group Members (now faculty)

Clare Abreu, NYU
Alvaro Sanchez, Madrid
Sivan Pearl Mizrahi, Hebrew University
Kirill Korolev, Boston University
Jonathan Friedman, Hebrew University
Christoph Ratzke, Univ. of Tubingen
Alfonso Perez Escudero, Toulouse (CNRS)
Akshit Goyal, ICTS in Bangalore
Martina Dal Bello, Yale
Avihu Yona, Hebrew University
Nic Vega, Emory University
Lei Dai, Shenzhen (CAS)
Longzhi Tan, Stanford
Daniel Amor, ENS in Paris
Saurabh Gandhi, IIT Delhi