Mercedes Pascual
Co-PI & Executive Committee Member; Professor of Biology and Environmental Studies
New York University
Projects
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Eco-evolutionary forces maintaining genetic diversity in Pseudomonas syringae
Core ProjectP. syringae is a well known plant pathogen with genetic diversity. The Bergelson and Pascual labs use eco-evolutionary models and data to study how diversity is maintained in wild plants and crops.
Publications
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Li et al., 2025
Li, S., Laderman, E., Markle, H., Yang, Y., Bergelson, J., & Pascual, M. (2025). Negative frequency-dependent selection contributes to modular structure of effector repertoires in Pseudomonas syringae. bioRxiv.
https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.16.632277 -
Liaghat et al., 2024
Liaghat, A., Yang, J., Whitaker, R., & Pascual, M. (2024). Punctuated virus-driven succession generates dynamical alternations in CRISPR-mediated microbe-virus coevolution. Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 21(217), 20240195.
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2024.0195