N. Bender

A Practical Assay for Assessing Mean Red Blood Cell Age Using the Protein 4.1a/4.1b Ratio

This paper develops a low-volume method to measure the 4.1a/4.1b protein ratio in red blood cells to estimate mean RBC age, showing significant interindividual variation.

Collective polarization dynamics in gonococcal colonies

This study reveals a transition from uncorrelated to collective membrane polarization dynamics in Neisseria gonorrhoeae colonies, linked to oxygen gradients and antibiotic tolerance.

Spatio-temporal dynamics of growth and death within spherical bacterial colonies

The paper develops methods to measure growth rates in bacterial colonies and finds that Neisseria gonorrhoeae forms steep growth rate gradients and uses stringent response to protect against stress.

Sexually Transmitted Infections Select for Different Levels of Immunocompetence And Reproductive Efforts in The Two Sexes

The paper models how sexually transmitted infections influence sex differences in immunocompetence and reproductive strategies across species.

The Evolution of Immune Sensitivity under Immunopathological and Autoimmune Costs

This study examines how immune sensitivity evolves under immunopathological and autoimmune costs, showing that parasite virulence and host lifespan influence sensitivity in opposing ways.

Circumventing the optical diffraction limit with customized speckles

This study demonstrates that customized speckle patterns can achieve three times higher spatial resolution than the diffraction limit in parallelized nonlinear pattern-illumination microscopy.