Science is a form of shared, social knowledge. The contemporary practice of peer review means that papers are often written with specific audiences in mind—sometimes even specific reviewers. And when it comes to specialized subfields, the world of science can be pretty small. This realization came to me most vividly when I once gave a talk at a large national meeting and realized half-way through that at one point or another I’d had drinks with at least half the audience.
These are some of the people I expect to review my papers and ask the necessary tough questions:
Collaborators
- Joan Strassmann & Dave Queller – Social evolution of Dictyostelium amoebae
- David Van Dyken – Evolutionary genetics of interactions among genes, individuals, & species
- Greg Velicer – Social evolution of Myxococcus bacteria
Colleagues: Social microbes
- Martin Ackermann – Aging and individuality in bacteria
- Sam Brown – Theory
- Kevin Foster – Bacterial Biofilms, social insects, theory
- Jeff Gore – Yeast, antibiotic resistant bacteria, theory
- Ben Kerr – Bacteriophage, theory
- Daniel Rankin – Theory
- Stu West – Pseudomonas bacteria, social insects, theory
Colleagues: Symbiosis & infectious disease
- Jessie Abbate – Microbotryum fungus that causes anther smut in plants
- Jim Bull – Experimental evolution of bacteriophage
- Samuel Alizon – Theory
- Janis Antonovics – Microbotryum fungus that causes anther smut in plants
- Sam Brown – Theory
- Tim Cooper – Experimental evolution of bacteria, plasmids
- Troy Day – Theory
- Dieter Ebert – Bacterial pathogens of Daphnia water fleas
- Andrew Read – Plasmodium parasites that cause malaria
- Joel Sachs – Symbiotic rhizobia bacteria
