Allesina λab Theoretical ecology & more
15 years in science
Hard to believe, but I’ve been working in science for fifteen years! Many things have happened since I started my PhD in Antonio Bodini’s lab in Parma, but I still have fun doing my job, and I am extremely grateful for the fantastic students, postdocs and colleagues who have been working with me through the years. The anniversary calls for a son... Read more 30 Dec 2016 - 1 minute read
Tips jar
In lieu of a laboratory meeting, we typically chat over coffee at the Smart Museum of Art every morning. Recently, they introduced a “vote with your tips” mechanism in which you can choose between two alternative tip jars. On Jacopo’s birthday, these were the options: Read more 01 Aug 2016 - less than 1 minute read
Looking for a postdoc
With Gyuri leaving for Sweden, the laboratory is short of a postdoc. I am therefore looking for a new postdoc who could start in late 2016 or early 2017. Here below I past the ad I am circulating. Postdoctoral position --- Allesina Laboratory, University of Chicago The [Allesina laboratory](http://allesinalab.uchicago.edu/) at the [University o... Read more 29 Jul 2016 - 1 minute read
Two new papers
Two papers I am very fond of just came out. The first one deals with competition: for decades, we've been teaching undergraduate students about the principle of competitive exclusion, showing the simple and appealing notion that intra-specific competition has to exceed inter-specific competition for two species to coexist. Often, however, we fai... Read more 25 Jun 2016 - 2 minute read
The Little Black Book
In Italy in the 1970s, youth belonging to counterculture movements would march in the streets, parading a copy of the Little Red Book containing quotations from the writings of Chairman Mao Tse-tung. Yesterday I turned 40, and to celebrate this very round anniversary, Gyuri, Jacopo, Liz and Matt presented me with a Little Black Book containing ... Read more 09 Jun 2016 - less than 1 minute read