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Danesh Moradigaravand

PhD Student

Danesh was a PhD student in the lab. He is now an Assistant Professor at King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST).

Adaptation through genetic time travel? Fluctuating selection can drive the evolution of bacterial transformation

Adaptation through genetic time travel? Fluctuating selection can drive the evolution of bacterial transformation
Jan Engelstädter, Danesh Moradigaravand
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, 281, 20132609 (2014)

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The impact of natural transformation on adaptation in spatially structured bacterial populations
Danesh Moradigaravand, Jan Engelstädter
BMC evolutionary biology, 14, 141 (2014)

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Recombination accelerates adaptation on a large-scale empirical fitness landscape in HIV-1
Danesh Moradigaravand, Roger Kouyos, Trevor Hinkley, Mojgan Haddad, Christos J. Petropoulos, Jan Engelstädter, Sebastian Bonhoeffer
PLOS Genetics, 10, e1004439 (2014)

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The evolution of natural competence: disentangling costs and benefits of sex in bacteria

The evolution of natural competence: disentangling costs and benefits of sex in bacteria
Danesh Moradigaravand, Jan Engelstädter
The American Naturalist, 182, E112--126 (2013)

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The effect of bacterial recombination on adaptation on fitness landscapes with limited peak accessibility
Danesh Moradigaravand, Jan Engelstädter
PLOS Computational biology, 8, e1002735 (2012)

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