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Eric Libby

I am an associate professor at the Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics and based at the interdisciplinary research center IceLab.

Research qualifications: Docent
0000-0002-6569-5793

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E-mail
eric.libby@umu.se
Phone
+46 90 786 91 70

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Affiliation
Associate professor at Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics
Location
MIT-huset, plan 3, Matematik och matematisk statistik, IceLab, Naturvetarhuset Umeå universitet, 901 87 Umeå

My work is based at the research center Icelab.

My research focuses on the evolution of biological complexity---particularly the origins of multicellularity, life cycles, syntrophy, and organizational scales. I use a variety of mathematical modeling techniques and collaborate with researchers from different disciplines and countries. I am thankful for generous support from various funding agencies, including the Swedish Research Council, Umeå University, NASA, and the National Science Foundation.

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Overexpression of the plastidial pseudo-protease AtFtsHi3 enhances drought tolerance while sustaining plant growth
Physiologia Plantarum, John Wiley & Sons 2024, Vol. 176, (3)
Mishra, Laxmi S.; Cook, Sam D.; Kushwah, Sunita; et al.
Emergence and maintenance of stable coexistence during a long-term multicellular evolution experiment
Nature Ecology & Evolution, Nature Publishing Group 2024, Vol. 8, (5) : 1010-1020
Pineau, Rozenn M.; Libby, Eric; Demory, David; et al.
Modeling endosymbioses: insights and hypotheses from theoretical approaches
PLoS biology, Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2024, Vol. 22, (4)
Souza, Lucas Santana; Solowiej-Wedderburn, Josephine; Bonforti, Adriano; et al.
Minor variations in multicellular life cycles have major effects on adaptation
PloS Computational Biology, Vol. 19, (4)
Isaksson, Hanna; Brännström, Åke; Libby, Eric
Metabolic compatibility and the rarity of prokaryote endosymbioses
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 2023, Vol. 120, (17)
Libby, Eric; Kempes, Christopher P.; Okie, Jordan G.
Evolutionary consequences of nascent multicellular life cycles
eLIFE, eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2023, Vol. 12
Pentz, Jennifer T.; MacGillivray, Kathryn; DuBose, James G.; et al.
Multi-species multicellular life cycles
The evolution of multicellularity, CRC Press 2022 : 343-356
Andersson, Rebecka; Isaksson, Hanna; Libby, Eric
Oxygen suppression of macroscopic multicellularity
Nature Communications, Nature Publishing Group 2021, Vol. 12, (1)
Bozdag, G. Ozan; Libby, Eric; Pineau, Rozenn; et al.
The consequences of budding versus binary fission on adaptation and aging in primitive multicellularity
Genes, MDPI 2021, Vol. 12, (5)
Isaksson, Hanna; Conlin, Peter L.; Kerr, Ben; et al.
Lichens and microbial syntrophies offer models for an interdependent route to multicellularity
The Lichenologist, Cambridge University Press 2021, Vol. 53, (4) : 283-290
Libby, Eric; Ratcliff, William C.
The grayness of the origin of life
Life, Vol. 11, (6)
Smith, Hillary H.; Hyde, Andrew S.; Simkus, Danielle N.; et al.
Ecological Advantages and Evolutionary Limitations of Aggregative Multicellular Development
Current Biology, Cell Press 2020, Vol. 30, (21) : 4155-4164
Pentz, Jennifer T.; Marquez-Zacarias, Pedro; Bozdag, G. Ozan; et al.
Dynamics of beneficial epidemics
Scientific Reports, Nature Publishing Group 2019, Vol. 9
Berdahl, Andrew; Brelsford, Christa; De Bacco, Caterina; et al.
Environmentally Mediated Social Dilemmas
Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Elsevier 2019, Vol. 34, (1) : 6-18
Estrela, Sylvie; Libby, Eric; Van Cleve, Jeremy; et al.
Modularity of the life cycle
Nature Ecology & Evolution, NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP 2019, Vol. 3, (8) : 1142-1143
Libby, Eric
Syntrophy emerges spontaneously in complex metabolic systems
PloS Computational Biology, Public Library Science 2019, Vol. 15, (7)
Libby, Eric; Hebert-Dufresne, Laurent; Hosseini, Sayed-Rzgar; et al.
Probabilistic models for predicting mutational routes to new adaptive phenotypes
Bio-protocol, Bio-Protocol, LLC 2019, Vol. 9, (20)
Libby, Eric; Lind, Peter A.
Shortsighted Evolution Constrains the Efficacy of Long-Term Bet Hedging
American Naturalist, University of Chicago Press 2019, Vol. 193, (3) : 409-423
Libby, Eric; Ratcliff, William C.
Predicting mutational routes to new adaptive phenotypes
eLIFE, eLife Sciences Publications 2019, Vol. 8 : 1-31
Lind, Peter A; Libby, Eric; Herzog, Jenny; et al.
Programmed cell death can increase the efficacy of microbial bet hedging
Scientific Reports, Vol. 8, (1)
Libby, Eric; Driscoll, William W.; Ratcliff, William C.
Adaptive evolutionary trajectories in complexity: repeated transitions between unicellularity and differentiated multicellularity
Isaksson, Hanna; Lind, Peter A; Libby, Eric
Cell-level information and the evolution of regulated multicellular life cycles
Isaksson, Hanna; Ratcliff, William; Libby, Eric
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