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Many pathways involved in innate immunity in plants, insects, and mammals also play roles in host development. This genetic pleiotropy could constrain the ability of immune systems to rapidly evolve in response to selective pressure from microbes because adaptive evolution could negatively affect other developmental processes and thus host fitness. Does pleiotropy constrain adaptive evolution, […]

Biotechnology is rapidly improving, largely due to our ability to manipulate genetic material and efficiently measure biological processes. This talk will describe advances in computational approaches and experimental platforms to probe and control stochastic biological processes within individual cells under a microscope. First, I will describe a novel platform for interfacing individual cells with computational models of […]