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Jake Moran

@MoranJacobT

@UMBiophys Pioneer Postdoctoral Fellow in @KevinWoodUM lab. @WashUPhysics alumn in @mikhtikh group. Special interests: biophysics, tacos, espresso, yoga.

Joined August 2020
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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
Emergent predictability in microbial ecosystems

Emergent predictability in microbial ecosystems

Microbial ecosystems exhibit a surprising amount of functionally relevant diversity at all levels of taxonomic resolution, presenting a significant challenge for most modeling frameworks. A...

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Excited to share our new preprint! In honor of May the 4th: a story about bacterial Clone Wars in space! Preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
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Happy #MayThe4th — may the (diffusive) forces be with you🌀
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I want to thank @hinczewskilab, Suraj Shankar, Bob Woods, and @LuisZaman for all their guidance and support on this work! And I want to show my deep gratitude for the late @KevinWoodUM who sadly is no longer with us - thank you Kevin for so much!
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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/jo…
From Fluctuations and Disorder to Scaling and Control: The Emergence of Resistance in Microbial...

From Fluctuations and Disorder to Scaling and Control: The Emergence of Resistance in Microbial...

Antibiotics are a cornerstone of modern medicine, and antibiotic resistance is a growing threat to public health. The evolution of resistance is a multiscale process shaped by many of the same...

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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.
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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-futur…
Donate to Support Future Biophysicists in Kevin's Memory, organized by Kris Wood

Donate to Support Future Biophysicists in Kevin's Memory, organized by Kris Wood

Kevin Wood, a proud husband and father and an accomplished physicist, passed … Kris Wood needs your support for Support Future Biophysicists in Kevin's Memory

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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.
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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 🙂
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Congratulations to Dr. Jacob Moran! He successfully defended his thesis, "The Emergent Coarse-Granability of Microbial Ecosystems" this morning. #WashU
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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/10.1101/…
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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/ar…
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