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Also, as a graduate student, I studied how influenza viruses evolve during chronic infections in immunocompromised patients. We found that a small set of antigenic mutations became dominant in multiple patients in our study and also spread in the global influenza population in later years. 6/n

Using follow-up experiments and consumer-resource models, we showed that introduced species show stronger dose dependence when they have high niche overlap with resident species. More here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 5/n

As a postdoc, I've tracked how new microbes establish in the gut microbiome after a controlled antibiotic perturbation. We expected an influx of new microbes after antibiotics, but new microbes often took months to establish, even after major perturbations that caused widespread species losses! 2/n