Peter J. Yunker

Georgia Institute of Technology — United States

Materials Science · Physical Sciences

25h-index4.7kcitations159works3.42yr avg
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Research Topics

Material Dynamics and Properties(25), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation(24), Vibrio bacteria research studies(19), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics(18), Nanomaterials and Printing Technologies(16)

Publications159 total

Higher levels of antibiotic resistance are less competitive: the hidden ecological cost of no-metabolic cost resistance
2025Open Access
<i> <i>Vibrio cholerae</i> </i> biofilm matrix assembly and growth are shaped by a glutamate-specific TAXI/TRAP protein
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2025Open Access
Microbial population structure: Forced proximity is shaped by capillary interactions
Current Biology·2025
Phase separation and coexistence in spatial coordination games between microbes
2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Cell-substrate friction controls biofilm development
2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Biofilm vertical growth dynamics are captured by an active fluid framework
Physical Biology·2025Open Access
Metabolically driven flows enable exponential growth in macroscopic multicellular yeast
Science Advances·2025· 4 citedOpen Access
Biofilm Vertical Growth Dynamics Are Captured by An Active Fluid Framework
2025Open Access
Oxygen-binding proteins aid oxygen diffusion to enhance fitness of a yeast model of multicellularity
PLoS Biology·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Evolution of cell differentiation: Maintenance emerges from speedy models and simple rules
Current Biology·2024
The biophysical basis of bacterial colony growth
Nature Physics·2024· 16 citedOpen Access
Metabolically-driven flows enable exponential growth in macroscopic multicellular yeast
2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Fluctuations and freezing of biofilm-air interfaces
2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Emergence and maintenance of stable coexistence during a long-term multicellular evolution experiment
Nature Ecology & Evolution·2024· 7 citedOpen Access
Spatial constraints and stochastic seeding subvert microbial arms race
PLoS Computational Biology·2024· 7 citedOpen Access
Morphological Entanglement in Living Systems
Physical Review X·2024· 10 citedOpen Access
Examining the role of oxygen-binding proteins on the early evolution of multicellularity
2023· 1 citedOpen Access
The biophysical basis of bacterial colony growth
2023· 3 citedOpen Access
Spontaneous Emergence of Multicellular Heritability
Genes·2023· 11 citedOpen Access
Spatial constraints subvert microbial arms race
2023Open Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Arjun G. Yodh(21), William C. Ratcliff(14), Brian K. Hammer(10), Tim Still(9), Zexin Zhang(9), Thomas C. Day(9), Matthew Lohr(6), Anthony Burnetti(6), Gabi Steinbach(6), Siu Lung Ng(6), Andrea J. Liu(5), G. Ozan Bozdag(5), Kevin B. Aptowicz(4), Matthew Gratale(4), Seyed Alireza Zamani-Dahaj(4), David Yanni(4), Pedro Márquez-Zacarías(4), Cristian V. Crisan(4), Pablo Bravo(4), Ke Chen(4)