david brewster
@david-brewster.bsky.social
phd student @ harvard researching evolutionary dynamics | website: https://brewster.cc
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I'm really excited to see this paper by @fernpizza.bsky.social, @baym.lol, et al. This is a great model system for studying multilevel selection, and the experimental work builds nicely on cross-scale theoretical modeling approaches that I've enjoyed learning about over the past few years. 🧵
Hot off the press! Our latest paper led by @fernpizza.bsky.social, understanding how plasmids evolve inside cells. These small, self-replicating DNA circles live inside bacteria and carry antibiotic resistance genes, but also compete with one another to replicate. 1/
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Intracellular competition shapes plasmid population dynamics
From populations of multicellular organisms to selfish genetic elements, conflicts between levels of biological organization are central to evolution. Plasmids are extrachromosomal, self-replicating g...
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November 23, 2025 at 12:36 AM
I'm really excited to see this paper by @fernpizza.bsky.social, @baym.lol, et al. This is a great model system for studying multilevel selection, and the experimental work builds nicely on cross-scale theoretical modeling approaches that I've enjoyed learning about over the past few years. 🧵
Reposted by david brewster
Very cool--a systematic study of coalescence and consensus times on graphs, with new theoretical bounds, from @david-brewster.bsky.social et al academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Maintaining diversity in structured populations
Abstract. We examine population structures for their ability to maintain diversity in neutral evolution. We use the general framework of evolutionary graph
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September 1, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Very cool--a systematic study of coalescence and consensus times on graphs, with new theoretical bounds, from @david-brewster.bsky.social et al academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...