Pittsburgh Center for Evolutionary Biology and Medicine (CEBaM)
The mission of the Center is to advance the fields of evolutionary biology and medicine by catalyzing research at their interface. The Center serves to cultivate educational and scientific collaborations between evolutionary biologists and biomedical researchers.
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New Spring 2020 Course: Evolutionary Biology of Human Disease
Evolution is a fundamental unifying principle of biology. This class takes a broad approach to illustrate…
Bacterial Lifestyle Alters the Evolution of Drug Resistance
Bacterial Lifestyle Alters the Evolution of Drug Resistance 10/23/2019 PITTSBURGH – How bacteria live — whether…
Korandla DR, Wozniak JM, Campeau A, Gonzalez DJ, Wright ES. (2019) AssessORF: combining evolutionary conservation and proteomics to assess prokaryotic gene predictions. Bioinformatics.
Santos-Lopez A, Marshall CW, Scribner MR, Snyder DJ, Cooper VS. (2019) Evolutionary pathways to antibiotic resistance are dependent upon environmental structure and bacterial lifestyle. Elife 13;8. doi: 10.7554/eLife.47612.
Hall AE, Karkare K, Cooper VS, Bank C, Cooper TF, Moore FB. (2019) Environment changes epistasis to alter trade-offs along alternative evolutionary paths. Evolution. doi: 10.1111/evo.13825.
Van Oss SB, Carvunis A-R (2019) De novo gene birth. PLoS Genet 15(5): e1008160.
Lin Y, May GE, Kready H, Nazzaro L, Mao M, Spealman P, Creeger Y, McManus CJ. (2019) Impacts of uORF codon identity and position on translation regulation, Nucleic Acids Research.
Turner CB, Marshall CW, Cooper VS. Parallel genetic adaptation across environments differing in mode of growth or resource availability. Evol Lett. 2(4):355-367. doi: 10.1002/evl3.75. eCollection 2018 Aug.
Gloag ES, Marshall CW, Snyder D, Lewin GR, Harris J, Santos-Lopez A, Chaney SB, Whiteley M, Cooper VS, Wozniak DJ. Pseudomonas aeruginosa Interstrain Dynamics and Selection of Hyperbiofilm Mutants during a Chronic Infection. MBio. 2019 Aug 13;10(4). pii: e01698-19. doi: 10.1128/mBio.01698-19.