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Understanding the ecological and evolutionary mechanism involved in creation and maintenance of both microbial diversity and cooperative behaviour is a complex task. It can be studied at many levels from multi-trophic, through to population and down to cellular and molecular. This clearly requires input from a range of scientists, from mathematicians, theoretical modelers, experimental microbial ecologists, microbiologists to biochemists which is reflected in the core membership:

Mathematical analysis of biological systems

Nicholas Britton, University of Bath

expertise includes: modelling genetic structure of microbial populations, non local PDEs.

Robert Beardmore, Imperial College London

expertise includes: viral-pathogen interactions, analysis of differential-algebraic equations.

Konstantin Mischaikow, Rutgers University

expertise includes: gene regulation; computational topology and dynamics.

Theoretical modelling

Ivana Gudelj Imperial College London

expertise includes: evolution of metabolism, diversity from co-evolutionary interactions.

Mike Boots, University of Sheffield

expertise includes: spatial evolutionary ecology, evolution of virulence and resistance.

Michael Doebeli, University of British Columbia

expertise includes: adaptive speciation: evolution of cooperation through game theory.

Experimental microbial evolutionary ecology

Angus Buckling, Oxford University

expertise includes: evolution of cooperation for nutrient acquisition.

Mike Brockhurst, University of Liverpool

expertise includes, understanding causes and consequences of biodiversity in microcosms.

Samantha Forde, University of California at Santa Cruz

expertise includes, coevolution of host and parasitoids within a geographic mosaic.

Microbiology

Ed Feil, University of Bath

expertise includes: molecular evolution, recombination and population structure of bacterial pathogens.

Martin Ackermann, ETH Zurich

expertise includes: phenotypic differences between individuals with or without underlying genetic differences, evolutionary origin of bacterial aging.

Thomas Ferenci, University of Sydney

expertise includes: contribution of mutational and regulatory adaptations to the fitness and diversity of bacteria populations, global analysis of metabolites.

The above members list is not considered to be fixed and we actively seek to widen the membership within the above disciplines as well as widen the spectrum of researchers involved.