We are an interdisciplinary research lab with a broad scientific focus on quantitative and computational biology, core domain knowledge in immune repertoires and evolutionary dynamics, and technical expertise in scientific computing, mathematical modeling, and machine learning. We aim to cultivate an inclusive and collaborative environment where all lab members are conversant in theory, computation, and experiment.
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| July 20, 2025 | Preprint: Forward-Time Equivalent of a "Retrocausal" Diffusion Hidden Variable Model for Quantum Mechanics arXiv:2507.13593 [quant-ph]. |
| July 14–25, 2025 | Will is off to Stockholm for Nordita workshop: Eco-Evolutionary Processes in Context: a Statistical Physics Approach. |
| July 3, 2025 | Postdoc Maggie Russell receives UW Distinguished Dissertation Award for her PhD work Inferring mechanisms of V(D)J recombination using statistical inference on high-throughput immune repertoire data. |
| June 23, 2025 | Charles Bennington (Gonzaga U Computer Science major) joins the lab for a summer internship. |
| June 5, 2025 | Preprint: Replaying germinal center evolution on a quantified affinity landscape. BioRxiv |
| April 4–6, 2025 | Will and Maggie attend Evo-WIBO |
| April 3, 2025 | Arnav Nagle joins for a MolES rotation, co-advised with Armita Nourmohammad |
| March 31, 2025 | The lab welcomes its first two members today! Magdalena Russell joins as a postdoc, and Carlo Melendez as a GS rotation student for the spring quarter. |
| Feb 27, 2025 | Evo-Hub launches! |
| Nov 3–8, 2024 | Off to Santa Fe Institute for a working group on Evolutionary dynamics of cheating in viral infections II |
| Sep 24 – Oct 11, 2024 | Will is in residence at Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics for viralimmune24 [talk recording] |
| Sep 1, 2024 | The DeWitt lab opens in the Foege building at University of Washington's Department of Genome Sciences! |
| July 25, 2024 | Publication: Mean-field interacting multi-type birth–death processes with a view to applications in phylodynamics. Theoretical Population Biology, Volume 159 |
| July 1, 2024 | Will finishes JSMF Fellowship at UC Berkeley hosted by Yun Song |
| April 10–15, 2024 | Off to Santa Fe Institute for a working group on Evolutionary dynamics of cheating in viral infections |
| Oct 7–11, 2023 | Off to Santa Fe Institute for a working group on Slow-fast dynamics in biological systems II |
| Aug 14–25, 2023 | Off to Aspen Center for Physics to attend the Program on statistical physics & adaptive immunity |
| July 23–27, 2023 | Off to SMBE 2023 in Ferrara, Italy; Will gives a talk and receives a "Young" Investigator award |
