Matthew Asker

Theoretical biologist. Applied Mathematics PhD @UniversityLeeds. UPPA TOWEN 🚜

[Matthew Asker @AskerMatthew]

My first publication!

Huge thanks to my supervisors and collaborators that have given me no end of guidance. Feel very lucky to be able to work on antimicrobial resistance, an issue impacting millions worldwide.

Check out the (open access) paper here:
https://t.co/ZgYbMIczWj

[Matthew Asker @AskerMatthew]

First of two pre-prints out now!

Antimicrobial resistance is a rapidly growing issue. What are some ways we could go about treating it?

In this paper, we unveil a fluctuation-driven antimicrobial eradication mechanism under varying environments.🧵

Link: https://t.co/sAHOOZxMvv

[Tobias Galla (also on BlueSky) @tobiasgalla]

How Migration May Stabilize the Diversity of Ecosystems

https://t.co/OYhX62DtAJ

My @PhysicsMagazine "Viewpoint" on work by @GiuliaLorenzana, @ada_altieri, and @GiulioBiroli in @PRX_Life

[Matthew Asker @AskerMatthew]

And that's a wrap! 🦠

Thank you so much to everyone that came along to the L24EEDs workshop. Brilliant work going on within microbial communities and it was great to hear about it all.

Be sure to keep in touch and we'll see what the future holds for this exciting research area!

[Matthew Asker @AskerMatthew]

Welcome desk set up and people arriving thick and fast (and wet 😅)

[Matthew Asker @AskerMatthew]

The workshop starts today!

Looking forward to meeting everyone and hearing the fantastic talks we have lined up.

Check here for info: https://t.co/9A8uCO1CoM

[Matthew Asker @AskerMatthew]

Happy to announce the L24EEDs international workshop on "Mathematical modelling of microbial communities" in Leeds, UK from 9-12 July!

See the poster below for more info.

Register here: https://t.co/uWtnWQPZd3

[Matthew Asker @AskerMatthew]

@mkjolly15 @Jain_Paras_20 @LeedsMathSchool @UniversityLeeds @biopatrika @BE_IISc @IiscOir @NCBStheory @Bio_IISc @GibinPowathil @SMBMathOnco @rakeshthejoy @VoicesofIndAcad Looking forward to hearing about the interesting work! BTW we're @mathsleedsuni 😉 @LeedsMathSchool is a very nice pre-uni school down the road.

[Joshua Bull @JoshuaABull]

I'm not sure if I dreamed the conference dinner or not...what just happened? #SMB2024

[Anna Sigalou @AnnaSigalou]

The @mathsleedsuni PG Conference for 2024 is next week -if in Leeds, drop by to meet the PhD students in maths and hear about our research!

[Matthew Asker @AskerMatthew]

And now published in JPhys A 🎉🦠

If you're interested in how bottlenecks in volume impact the evolution of cooperative antimicrobial resistance, give it a read :)

https://t.co/RKnqV172yG

[Matthew Asker @AskerMatthew]

If you were (rightly) resting over the holidays, you may have missed our preprint appear alongside the gifts!

We ask: how does composition-dependent cooperation with extrinsic changes (i.e. volume) impact bacterial evolution?

Check it out here: https://t.co/Qk3Uac44Vb

[Matthew Asker @AskerMatthew]

I BLOODY LOVE THIS CLUB!!

Whole life when I've told people who I support they've asked "yeah, but who's your prem club?"

IT'S IPSWICH TOWN 🚜🚜🚜🚜

[Ipswich Town @IpswichTown]

WE'VE DONE IT.

[Matthew Asker @AskerMatthew]

@JoshuaABull As far as I'm concerned, the world is on hold until 3pm on Saturday 😅

[Matthew Asker @AskerMatthew]

@luke_phys "Evolutionary dynamics" by Martin Nowak goes over evolutionary games nicely. If you can frame your system as a game like this, you can determine if you will have a coexistence state (mixed strategy). Whether this coexistence has "stranger" behaviour is another question :P

[Matthew Asker @AskerMatthew]

🚨 FINAL CALL TO SUBMIT 🚨

Do you work with microbial communities and / or model them mathematically?

Then come and join us in Leeds for an exciting workshop looking at fluctuations, evolution, AMR, and more!

Deadline for abstract submission is FRIDAY.

See you there 👋🦠

[Matthew Asker @AskerMatthew]

Happy to announce the L24EEDs international workshop on "Mathematical modelling of microbial communities" in Leeds, UK from 9-12 July!

See the poster below for more info.

Register here: https://t.co/uWtnWQPZd3

[Matthew Asker @AskerMatthew]

It's pi day, pi day, gotta get down on pi day

[Isaac Newton Institute @NewtonInstitute]

See below for details of "L24EEDS" an exciting interdisciplinary workshop coming up in July from @mathsleedsuni 🦠🔬🧮🏙️ https://t.co/arEg3C9gXt #mathematics #workshop #research

[Matthew Asker @AskerMatthew]

Happy to announce the L24EEDs international workshop on "Mathematical modelling of microbial communities" in Leeds, UK from 9-12 July!

See the poster below for more info.

Register here: https://t.co/uWtnWQPZd3

[Matthew Asker @AskerMatthew]

@JoshuaABull Oh yes it can!

[AMR@LEEDS @AMRatLEEDS]

New research by @askermatthew and colleagues at @UniversityLeeds explores the dynamics of competing microbial strains under varying toxin levels and resource abundance, shedding light on the potential for long-lived coexistence. 🦠🔍

#AMR

https://t.co/EScHmENqd5

[Matthew Asker @AskerMatthew]

@saptarshipal_ @MPI_EvolBio @chilbe3 I hope so too! Haha yes, loved the heated lunchtime debates about ultimate dodgeball 🤾‍♀️

[Matthew Asker @AskerMatthew]

@saptarshipal_ @MPI_EvolBio @chilbe3 Congrats Saptarshi! Best of luck for the future 🤞