Ben Good

@benjaminhgood.bsky.social

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Assistant Professor of Applied Physics @Stanford. Theoretical biophysics, evolutionary dynamics & microbial evolution. https://bgoodlab.github.io/

Schematic diagram showing microbial strains migrating between mouse gut microbiomes.
Schematic diagram illustrating spatial migration of B cells during affinity maturation.
Schematic showing how a rapidly evolving population clusters into a smaller number of distinct ecotypes, comprising individuals with similar resource uptake strategies but different genotypes & overall fitness.
Schematic diagram showing an evolving ecosystem at high and low mutation rates.
Clonal dN/dS dynamics in human gut bacteria after correcting for recombination.
Schematic showing how homologous recombination can influence dN/dS between conspecific strains of bacteria.
A figure panel depicting the amount of recent strain sharing of Ruminococcus bromii strains between different human populations.
A figure panel from the paper showing the relative fraction of microbial species observed in the Tsimane and Hadza cohorts.
First-step mutations in randomly assembled communities