Jake Moran

Excited the last chapter from my phd is finally out! Using empirical data, we show that simple relationships predicting a community's function from its composition emerge as community diversity is increased. Had so much fun working on this! arxiv.org/abs/2403.19372

As one of the last papers to come out of Kevin's lab, I feel like this review is a testament to his enthusiasm and dedication to working on the important biomedical problem of AMR, while highlighting its potential as an exciting context for learning new physics.

Excited to see this review with my late advisor @KevinWoodUM out in advance @AnnualReviews. From Fluctuations and Disorder to Scaling and Control: The Emergence of Resistance in Microbial Communities. annualreviews.org/content/journa…

Despite only working together for a short time, his support really built up my confidence as a scientist. I will greatly miss his creativity, enthusiasm, and of course his clever jokes to lighten things up. He always knew how to turn a hard problem into something positive.

This has been a very difficult time. Seeing the far reaching impact Kevin had is as comforting as anything can be at the moment, and it shows just a small part of this devastating loss. Kevin was a tremendous advisor, scientist, and friend. gofundme.com/f/support-futu…

Thank you @mikhtikh for an amazing PhD experience. Will greatly miss working as a part of your group, but looking forward to starting my postdoc experience with @KevinWoodUM in the coming weeks 🙂

You’re the Mayor of Celltown. How do you allocate resources to grow? Do you invest in more mitochondria? ER? Golgi? We studied links among systems-level organelle biogenesis, cell size and growth at single cell resolution with our fun tool: rainbow yeast! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

@SeppeKuehnLab @mikhtikh Thanks Seppe!

Happy to share our recent work in neonatal T1w-to-T2w image translation! We propose 2 methods for synthesizing anatomically accurate pseudo-T2ws from T1w images and show their efficacy in rs-fMRI analyses; allowing us to recover missing data in neonates. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Here's something you probably didn't know that you needed to know! Topological action potentials in engineered tissues biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

@limmerlab @KavliENSI @benkuznetsspeck @UCB_Chemistry @UCB_Biophysics Congrats @benkuznetsspeck! Very exciting!

Happy to see Ben's selection as a 2022-2023 Philomathia Fellow of the @KavliENSI here at UC Berkeley. As a fellow he will work with Carlos Bustamante to study protein folding and force spectroscopy. kavli.berkeley.edu/ben-kuznets-sp… @benkuznetsspeck @UCB_Chemistry @UCB_Biophysics

When a single bacterial strain evolves into several coexisting ones, how does further evolution affect this fragile alliance? By quantifying its mutational fuel, amazing grad student @jaascensao has just made big step in this direction. @benjaminhgood K Wetmore @AdamArkinLab

Interactions between strains govern the eco-evolutionary dynamics of microbial communities doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…

This looks like another superb story by @sylvieestrela from @asanchez_lab Functional attractors in microbial community assembly cell.com/cell-systems/f…

Excited our infant rs-fMRI respiratory filtering paper is finally out! We show that respiratory motion artifact is present in infant/toddler rs-fMRI and can be removed by filtering the FD trace; recovering ~10 minutes of data critical for FC analyses. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

One of the most exciting preprints I’ve read in the past few years just came out after peer review pnas.org/content/118/45…

Today concludes the Ecology and Evolution of Microbial Communities program, watch all #ECOEVO21 talks ▸ online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/ecoevo21 This week we welcomed #INFO21 participants to #INFOVERSALITY21 ▸ online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/infover… #HighEnergyandGravity returned ▸ online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/joint98

@min_jiseon @IOPscience Congrats, Jiseon! Really looking forward to reading this 😃

My first first-author paper is now published in J. Stat. Mech! A transport approach to relate asymmetric protein segregation and population growth doi.org/10.1088/1742-5… via @IOPscience

New work with E. Tang and @RGolestanian just out @PhysRevX. We find that topologically-protected, chiral edge currents can arise in two-dimensional stochastic reaction networks (1/4) journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/1…