Researcher Portfolio
Traulsen, Arne
Department Evolutionary Ecology (Milinski), Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Max Planck Society, Department Evolutionary Theory, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Max Planck Society, Department Theoretical Biology (Traulsen), Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Max Planck Society, Emmy-Noether-Group Community Dynamics, Department Evolutionary Ecology (Milinski), Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Max Planck Society, External, Research Group Evolutionary Theory, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Max Planck Society
Researcher Profile
Position: Director (Department Theoretical Biology (Traulsen), Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Max Planck Society)
Position: Department Evolutionary Ecology (Milinski), Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Max Planck Society
Position: Group Leader (Emmy-Noether-Group Community Dynamics, Department Evolutionary Ecology (Milinski), Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Max Planck Society)
Position: Director (Department Evolutionary Theory, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Max Planck Society)
Position: Research Group Leader (Research Group Evolutionary Theory, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Max Planck Society)
Position: External
Additional IDs: ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0669-5267
Researcher ID: https://pure.mpg.de/cone/persons/resource/persons56973
Publications
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: Gokhale, C. S., & Traulsen, A. (in preparation). Higher-order equivalence of Lotka-Volterra and replicator dynamics. [PubMan] : Ramírez, M. A., Datseris, G., & Traulsen, A. (submitted). Chaos and noise in evolutionary game dynamics. [PubMan] : Sharma, N., Das, S. G., Krug, J., & Traulsen, A. (2025). Graph-structured populations elucidate the role of deleterious mutations in long-term evolution. Nature Communications, 16: 2355. doi:10.1038/s41467-025-57552-9. [PubMan] : Christgen, M., Caetano, R. A., Eisenburger, M., Traulsen, A., & Altrock, P. M. (2025). Deficient cell-cell cohesion is linked with lobular localization in simplified models of lobular carcinoma in situ (LCIS). Mathematical Biosciences, 380: 109369. doi:10.1016/j.mbs.2024.109369. [PubMan] : Raatz, M., de Azevedo-Lopes, A., Drabik, K., Traulsen, A., & Waclaw, B. (2025). Pathogen non-planktonic phases within the urinary tract impact early infection and resistance evolution. The ISME Journal, 18(1): wrae191. doi:10.1093/ismejo/wrae191. [PubMan] : Traulsen, A., Rasmussen, M. N., Krug, J., & Beyer, A. (2025). On the misuse of evolutionary theory to bolster the ‘scientific’ case for intelligent design: A cautionary note. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 596: 111985. doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2024.111985. [PubMan] : Giaimo, S., Shah, S., Raatz, M., & Traulsen, A. (2025). Negligible long-term impact of nonlinear growth dynamics on heterogeneity in models of cancer cell populations. Bulletin of mathematical biology, 87(2): 18. doi:10.1007/s11538-024-01395-w. [PubMan] : Zapién-Campos, R., Bansept, F., & Traulsen, A. (2024). Stochastic models allow improved inference of microbiome interactions from time series data. PLOS Biology, 22(11): e3002913. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3002913. [PubMan] : Flores, L. S., de Azevedo-Lopes, A., Saad-Roy, C. M., & Traulsen, A. (submitted). Seasonal social dilemmas. [PubMan] : Giaimo, S., & Traulsen, A. (2024). Juvenile mortality and sibling replacement: a kin selection approach. Evolution Letters, 8(5), 647-657. doi:10.1093/evlett/qrae018. [PubMan] : Harman, J., Nödl, M.-T., Fenton, B., Hipsley, C. A., Liberles, D. A., Narayan, E., Settele, J., & Traulsen, A. (2024). 2024 joint BMC Ecology and Evolution and BMC Zoology image competition: the winning images. BMC Ecology and Evolution, 24: 102. doi:10.1186/s12862-024-02291-6. [PubMan] : Baines, J. F., Baldus, C. D., Bertels, F., Brüggemann, M., Kaleta, C., Laudes, M., Mueller, F.-J., Odenthal-Hesse, L., Poyet, M., Rainey, P. B., Rosenstiel, P., Scheffold, A., Sebens, S., Thiery, J., & Traulsen, A.(2024). Advancing evolutionary medicine in Northern Germany: Collaboration between Kiel University’s Medical Faculty and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology. doi:10.1093/emph/eoae013. [PubMan] : Zimmermann, J., Piecyk, A., Sieber, M., Petersen, C., Johnke, J., Moitinho-Silva, L., Künzel, S., Bluhm, L., Traulsen, A., Kaleta, C., & Schulenburg, H. (2024). Gut-associated functions are favored during microbiome assembly across C. elegans life. mBio, 15(5): e00012-24. doi:10.1101/2023.03.25.534195. [PubMan] : Mallmin, E., Traulsen, A., & De Monte, S. (2024). Chaotic turnover of rare and abundant species in a strongly interacting model community. PNAS, 121(11): e2312822121. doi:10.1073/pnas.2312822121. [PubMan] : Obeng, N., Czerwinski, A., Schütz, D., Michels, J., Leipert, J., Bansept, F., Schultheiß, T., Kemlein, M., Fuß, J., Tholey, A., Traulsen, A., & Schulenburg, H. (2023). Bacterial c-di-GMP has a key role in establishing host–microbe symbiosis. Nature Microbiology, 8, 1809-1819. doi:10.1038/s41564-023-01468-x. [PubMan] : Sharma, N., Yagoobi, S., & Traulsen, A. (2023). Self-loops in evolutionary graph theory: Friends or foes? PLoS Computational Biology, 19(9): e1011387. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011387. [PubMan] : Raatz, M., & Traulsen, A. (2023). Promoting extinction or minimizing growth? The impact of treatment on trait trajectories in evolving populations. Evolution: international journal of organic evolution, 77(6), 1408-1421. doi:10.1093/evolut/qpad042. [PubMan] : Traulsen, A., Levin, S. A., & Saad-Roy, C. M. (2023). Individual costs and societal benefits of interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120(24): e2303546120. doi:10.1073/pnas.2303546120. [PubMan] : Traulsen, A., & Glynatsi, N. E. (2023). The future of theoretical evolutionary game theory. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences, 378(1876): 20210508. doi:10.1098/rstb.2021.0508. [PubMan] : Zapién-Campos, R., Bansept, F., & Traulsen, A. (submitted). Inferring interactions from microbiome data. [PubMan] : Yagoobi, S., Sharma, N., & Traulsen, A. (2023). Categorizing update mechanisms for graph-structured metapopulations. Interface: Journal of the Royal Society, 20(200): 20220769. doi:10.1098/rsif.2022.0769. [PubMan] : Giaimo, S., & Traulsen, A. (2023). Generation time in stage-structured populations under fluctuating environments. The American Naturalist, 201(3), 404-417. doi:10.1086/722608. [PubMan] : Ramírez, M. A., Smerlak, M., Traulsen, A., & Jost, J. (2023). Diversity enables the jump towards cooperation for the Traveler’s Dilemma. Scientific Reports, 13: 1441. doi:10.1038/s41598-023-28600-5. [PubMan] : Saad-Roy, C. M., & Traulsen, A. (2023). Dynamics in a behavioral–epidemiological model for individual adherence to a nonpharmaceutical intervention. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120(44): e2311584120. doi:10.1073/pnas.2311584120. [PubMan] : Shah, S., Philipp, L.-M., Giaimo, S., Sebens, S., Traulsen, A., & Raatz, M. (2023). Understanding and leveraging phenotypic plasticity during metastasis formation. npj Systems biology and applications, 9: 48. doi:10.1038/s41540-023-00309-1. [PubMan]