Experimental Evolution of Communities

Our group uses theoretical and experimental approaches to understand the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of species interactions and disease. We integrate eco-evolutionary processes in dynamical landscapes, which incorporates issues such as spatio-temporal variation in environmental conditions, disturbance and connectivity (dispersal). We also study cancer evolution, the evolution of social strategies and innovations. Our main experimental systems are protozoan model species (Tetrahymena, Paramecium) and their natural enemies (Didinium, Holospora), as well as bacteria (Pseudomonas aeruginosa) and their lytic phages.

EEC is back online!

2018-01-19T14:49:17+00:0019 January 2018|

As of 1/1/2018, Emanuel Fronhofer joins our team as a CNRS research scientist. Welcome, Emanuel! Visit his page and his personal website!

Phages and bacterial social evolution

2015-11-04T14:58:28+00:004 November 2015|

A new article published by Marie Vasse, Clara Torres-Barceló and Michael Hochberg in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, shows how phage predators impact social dynamics in the pathogenic bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa. While predators

Tragedy of the Tragedy of the Commons

2015-03-05T14:47:44+00:005 March 2015|

Michael Hochberg and James Brown have just published an essay on what would appear to be the irreversibility of the tragedy of the commons for humanity. Hochberg M.E. & Brown J.H. 2015. Tragedy of The

Fundamental Ecology is Fundamental

2014-12-04T14:27:06+00:004 December 2014|

Michael Hochberg and collaborators have published an article in Trends in Ecology and Evolution on the importance of basic science. This paper stems from a symposium sponsored by the Société Française d'Ecologie at INTECOL in

Combined phage – antibiotic therapies

2014-09-27T06:31:03+00:0027 September 2014|

Clara Torres-Barceló and EEC colleagues have published an article in PLoS ONE, investigating the impact of combined phage-antibiotic treatments on the nosocomial pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Torres-Barceló C., Arias-Sanchez F., Vasse M., Ramsayer J., Kaltz O.

Phages and the Red Queen

2014-08-01T13:14:41+00:001 August 2014|

Alex Betts and EEC colleagues have published an article in PNAS, investigating patterns of coevolution of the pathogenic bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa with various phages. See also here, and here. Betts, A., O. Kaltz, and M.

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