Ocean tracers such as carbon dioxide, nutrients, plankton, and oil advect, diffuse, and react
primarily in the oceanic mixed layer where air‐sea gas exchange occurs and light is plentiful …

Mechanical stresses stemming from environmental factors are a key determinant of cellular
behavior and physiology. Yet, the role of self-induced biomechanical stresses in growing …

Evolutionary dynamics in nature constitute an immensely complex non-equilibrium process.
We review the application of physical models of evolution, by focusing on adaptation …

The motility of microorganisms is often biased by gradients in physical and chemical
properties of their environment, with myriad implications on their ecology. Here we show that …

The growth and evolution of microbial populations is often subjected to advection by fluid
flows in spatially extended environments, with immediate consequences for questions of …

Most organisms grow in space, whether they are viruses spreading within a host tissue or
invasive species colonizing a new continent. Evolution typically selects for higher expansion …

Oceans host communities of plankton composed of relatively few abundant species and
many rare species. The number of rare protist species in these communities, as estimated in …

Despite the importance of fluid flow for transporting and organizing populations, few
laboratory systems exist to systematically investigate the impact of advection on their spatial …

We study an individual based model describing competition in space between two different
alleles. Although the model is similar in spirit to classic models of spatial population genetics …

The gut microbiota features important genetic diversity, and the specific spatial features of
the gut may shape evolution within this environment. We investigate the fixation probability …