Benjamin Kerr

Benjamin Kerr

University of Washington

H-index: 36

North America-United States

About Benjamin Kerr

Benjamin Kerr, With an exceptional h-index of 36 and a recent h-index of 26 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University of Washington, specializes in the field of Evolution, Ecology, Mathematics, Philosophy.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Evolutionary “Crowdsourcing”: alignment of fitness landscapes allows for cross-species adaptation of a horizontally transferred gene

A CURE on the Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance in Escherichia coli Improves Student Conceptual Understanding

Division of labor promotes the entrenchment of multicellularity

Estimating the transfer rates of bacterial plasmids with an adapted Luria–Delbrück fluctuation analysis

Host-parasite coevolution promotes innovation through deformations in fitness landscapes

The cost of information acquisition by natural selection

LDM protocol for estimating plasmid conjugation rates

Division of Labor Following the Evolution of Multicellularity Promotes Entrenchment

Benjamin Kerr Information

University

Position

Professor of Biology

Citations(all)

6500

Citations(since 2020)

2473

Cited By

5162

hIndex(all)

36

hIndex(since 2020)

26

i10Index(all)

63

i10Index(since 2020)

40

Email

University Profile Page

University of Washington

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Benjamin Kerr Skills & Research Interests

Evolution

Ecology

Mathematics

Philosophy

Top articles of Benjamin Kerr

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Evolutionary “Crowdsourcing”: alignment of fitness landscapes allows for cross-species adaptation of a horizontally transferred gene

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Olivia Kosterlitz

Nathan Grassi

Bailey Werner

Ryan Seamus McGee

Eva M Top

...

2023/11

A CURE on the Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance in Escherichia coli Improves Student Conceptual Understanding

CBE—Life Sciences Education

Scott Freeman

Joya Mukerji

Matt Sievers

Ismael Barreras Beltran

Katie Dickinson

...

2023

Division of labor promotes the entrenchment of multicellularity

bioRxiv

Peter L Conlin

Heather J Goldsby

Eric Libby

Katherine G Skocelas

William C Ratcliff

...

2023

Estimating the transfer rates of bacterial plasmids with an adapted Luria–Delbrück fluctuation analysis

PLoS Biology

Olivia Kosterlitz

Adamaris Muñiz Tirado

Claire Wate

Clint Elg

Ivana Bozic

...

2022/7/25

Host-parasite coevolution promotes innovation through deformations in fitness landscapes

Elife

Animesh Gupta

Luis Zaman

Hannah M Strobel

Jenna Gallie

Alita R Burmeister

...

2022/7/6

The cost of information acquisition by natural selection

biorxiv

Ryan Seamus McGee

Olivia Kosterlitz

Artem Kaznatcheev

Benjamin Kerr

Carl T Bergstrom

2022/7/3

LDM protocol for estimating plasmid conjugation rates

Olivia Kosterlitz

Claire Wate

Adamaris Muñiz Tirado

Benjamin Kerr

2022/6/24

Division of Labor Following the Evolution of Multicellularity Promotes Entrenchment

The Astrobiology Science Conference (AbSciCon) 2022

Peter L Conlin

Heather Goldsby

Eric Libby

Katherine G Skocelas

William C Ratcliff

...

2022/5

A course-based undergraduate research experience on the evolution of antibiotic resistance and its molecular basis

Katie Dickinson

Joya Mukerji

Stuart Graham

Liz Warfield

Ben Kerr

2021/7/19

Evolution with private resources reverses some changes from long-term evolution with public resources

bioRxiv

Katrina van Raay

Sergey Stolyar

Jordana Sevigny

Adamaris Muñiz Tirado

Jeremy A Draghi

...

2021/1/1

Virus shedding kinetics and unconventional virulence tradeoffs

PLoS Pathogens

Andrew R Wargo

Gael Kurath

Robert J Scott

Benjamin Kerr

2021/5/10

The consequences of budding versus binary fission on adaptation and aging in primitive multicellularity

Genes

Hanna Isaksson

Peter L Conlin

Ben Kerr

William C Ratcliff

Eric Libby

2021/4/28

Estimating the rate of plasmid transfer with an adapted Luria–Delbrück fluctuation analysis

bioRxiv

Olivia Kosterlitz

Adamaris Muñiz Tirado

Claire Wate

Clint Elg

Ivana Bozic

...

2021/1/6

Detection and functional resolution of soluble multimeric immune complexes by a comprehensive FcγR reporter cell panel

bioRxiv

Haizhang Chen

Andrea Maul-Pavicic

Martin Holzer

Magdalena Huber

Ulrich Salzer

...

2020/11/11

The dual landscape model of adaptation and niche construction

Philosophy of Science

Mark M Tanaka

Peter Godfrey-Smith

Benjamin Kerr

2020/7

Coevolution of host–plasmid pairs facilitates the emergence of novel multidrug resistance

Nature ecology & evolution

Hannah Jordt

Thibault Stalder

Olivia Kosterlitz

José M Ponciano

Eva M Top

...

2020/6

Evolving populations in biofilms contain more persistent plasmids

Molecular biology and evolution

Thibault Stalder

Brandon Cornwell

Jared Lacroix

Bethel Kohler

Seth Dixon

...

2020/6/1

Major Transitions in Digital Evolution*

Evolution in Action: Past, Present and Future: A Festschrift in Honor of Erik D. Goodman

Heather Goldsby

Benjamin Kerr

Charles Ofria

2020

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Co-Authors

H-index: 84
Angus Buckling

Angus Buckling

University of Exeter

H-index: 67
Brendan Bohannan

Brendan Bohannan

University of Oregon

H-index: 63
Esteban Fernandez-Juricic

Esteban Fernandez-Juricic

Purdue University

H-index: 47
David Stephens

David Stephens

University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

H-index: 39
Rees Kassen

Rees Kassen

University of Ottawa

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