Metapopulations with memory

Richard Levins has written some of my all-time favorite papers. In 1969, when he was at the University of Chicago, he studied a simple model for metapopulation (a population of populations) dynamics. The model shares the same for as the Susceptible-Infected-Susceptible model in epidemiology, and both can be turned in a model for a population gro... Read more 03 Dec 2021 - less than 1 minute read

Intraspecific variation in Lotka-Volterra

The Lotka-Volterra predator-prey model is one of the four models we teach all of our students (along with exponential growth, logistic growth, and competitive LV). It was proposed a century ago by Alfred J. Lotka (in this paper, published in 1920) and re-discovered by Vito Volterra in 1926. In a new preprint$^1$, Carlos, Zach and I show that wh... Read more 28 Sep 2021 - 1 minute read

Talk for Princeton Biophysics

One of the few silver linings of the pandemic is the fact that seminars tend to be recorded. Here’s a talk I gave for the seminar series of the Center for the Physics of Biological Function at Princeton. Read more 27 Oct 2020 - less than 1 minute read

Teaching in Brazil

Here are four lectures I have delivered in Sao Paulo for this school. You can find the lecture notes here. Read more 12 Aug 2020 - less than 1 minute read

Looking for a postdoc

Postdoctoral position — Allesina Laboratory, University of Chicago The Allesina laboratory at the University of Chicago is looking for a postdoc, with a starting date of October 1st, 2020 (or later). The interests of the laboratory include ecological networks (food webs, mutualistic, competitive networks), community ecology, and theoretical eco... Read more 12 Aug 2020 - 1 minute read

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