biologist at APS2025 Anaheim? join us for the Evolutionary Dynamics sessions, first round starting today 11.30 with a talk by Daniel Fisher. excited for the line-up we put together!
Justus Wilhelm Fink
@justuswfink.bsky.social
scientist fascinated by microbes in extreme environments and their ability to evolve. PhD' 2023 Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich. post-doc at the Orphan lab, Caltech. https://justuswfink.github.io/
Why are there so many fitness metrics in microbial ecology? I was confused as I started the PhD - and with @michaelmanhart.bsky.social , I developed a framework that unifies existing statistics of relative fitness and shows how they all derive from a few basic principles. Preprint is up! 1/n
Quantifying microbial fitness in high-throughput experiments
Few concepts are as central to evolution as is fitness, and yet the quantification of fitness is often ambiguous. In particular, high-throughput experiments to measure mutant fitness in microbes are i...
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