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.
October, 2020: Gabriel Popkin wrote an article covering our work in Quanta Magazine.
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
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Ecological Systems Biology
Former Group Members (now faculty)