Van Cleve Research Group – theoretical evolution & ecology at the University of Kentucky

I have some exciting news (again!). I got money from the region (Occitanie) to hire a postdoc (and later an engineer / technician) to work on drug resistance evolution in malaria (P. faciparum) and…

We develop a discrete-time Susceptible-Infectious-Susceptible model with Vaccination (SISV) in which vaccination reduces but does not necessarily eliminate the risk of infection. After establishing th...

Mosquitoes are important vectors of infectious diseases affecting humans and animals. In North America, Culex mosquitoes transmit West Nile virus and other arboviruses, while their persistence in temp...

While most game-theoretical models in fisheries deal with the conflict of exploitation of the same resource, unlike these models, the present paper is dedicated to marketing conflicts, always accounti...

Traditional epidemiological models rely on the basic reproductive number, $$\mathcal {R}_0$$ R 0 , as a single threshold quantity to determine whether a disease will persist or die out. However, incre...

Mathematical models of plague dynamics provide insight into zoonotic transmission processes and epidemic persistence but often neglect stochastic effects and seasonal variability. In this study, we ex...

We propose a continuous multidimensional multispecies model of planktonic cell invasion in phototrophic biofilms that incorporates phototaxis as a key mechanism driving directed movement along light g...

The sterile insect technique (SIT) is a biological control method aimed at reducing or eliminating populations of pests and disease vectors. This technique involves releasing sterilised insects which,...

Aberrant protein aggregation is implicated in many neurodegenerative diseases and is strongly modulated by intracellular spatial constraints such as macromolecular crowding and clearance. Computationa...

Standard methods for ancestral sequence reconstruction (ASR) rely on substitution models for the residues in a biological sequence and assume independent evolution across these sites, ignoring the epi...

Tuberculosis (TB) is an airborne disease caused by the pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis. In 2023, it returned to being the leading cause of death from an infectious agent globally, replacing COVID-...

Humans rely on complex social learning and collective adaptation to navigate dynamically changing environments. The authors show that human collective intelligence in a dynamic, naturalistic task depe...

In this Perspective, Levin and Wang give a brief history of bacterial growth rate and discuss how it is connected to nutrient availability and macromolecule synthesis, with a focus on (p)ppGpp as a ce...

The Department of Biology at Stanford University seeks applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology. A successful candidate will conduct research that asks fundamental que...

Abstract. Host-microbe relationships are studied across biological disciplines, with unique but overlapping conceptual frameworks arising from each of them

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The ability to estimate the size of a disease outbreak is beneficial both for coordinating an outbreak response and for retrospectively evaluating the effectiveness of response measures and surveillan...

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Understanding how between-species interactions influence adaptation and population persistence in the face of environmental change is one of the gr...