News
2025
A dynamical perspective on triggering multiscale immune responses
Preprint: BH Schlomann, WS DeWitt, Y Zhang, K Shah. Ignition criteria for trigger waves in cell signaling.
arXiv:2508.16810 [q-bio.CB] Read more
Funding for Evo-Hub from Simpson Center for the Humanities
Evo-Hub receives funding from the Simpson Center for the Humanities for 2025-2026! Read more
Charles presents a poster at GS Undergraduate Research Poster Session
Charles Bennington has been working with us this summer via the UW School of Medicine—Gonzaga University Summer Research Program. Read more
Two preprints on inferring affinity-fitness response in germinal centers from trees
Two collaborative preprints investigate how fitness of affinity-maturing B cells depends on affinity changes in their mutating B-cell receptors, both using B-cell lineage trees from our recent GC (germinal center) replay preprint Read more
Preprint with Ben Feintzeig (UW Philosophy)
Forward-Time Equivalent of a “Retrocausal” Diffusion Hidden Variable Model for Quantum Mechanics, arXiv:2507.13593 [quant-ph].
Off to Nordita for Eco-Evolutionary Processes in Context
Will is off to Stockholm for the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (Nordita) workshop: Eco-Evolutionary Processes in Context: a Statistical Physics Approach (July 14–25, 2025). Read more
Maggie receives Distinguished Dissertation Award
Postdoc Maggie Russell receives the UW Distinguished Dissertation Award for her PhD work Inferring mechanisms of V(D)J recombination using statistical inference on high-throughput immune repertoire data.
Charles joins for summer internship
Charles Bennington (Gonzaga University Computer Science major) joins the lab for a summer internship via the UW School of Medicine—Gonzaga University Summer Research Program. Read more
GC Replay preprint
Replaying germinal center evolution on a quantified affinity landscape. bioRxiv
Evo-WIBO 2025
Will and Maggie attend Evo-WIBO in Blaine, WA (April 4–6, 2025).
Arnav joins for MolES rotation
MolES PhD student Arnav Nagle joins for a rotation, co-advised with Armita Nourmohammad. Read more
First lab members
The lab welcomes its first two members today! Dr. Magdalena (Maggie) Russell joins as a postdoc, and Carlo Melendez joins as a GS rotation student for the Spring quarter. Read more
Evo-Hub launches
2024
SFI Micro Working Group
Off to Santa Fe Institute for Evolutionary dynamics of cheating in viral infections II (November 3–8, 2024). Read more
KITP viralimmune24 program
Will is in residence at Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) for Interactions and Co-evolution between Viruses and Immune Systems (September 24 – October 11, 2024). Read more
Hello again, UW!
The DeWitt lab opens in the Foege building at University of Washington’s Department of Genome Sciences! Read more
Publication
Mean-field interacting multi-type birth–death processes with a view to applications in phylodynamics in Theoretical Population Biology, Volume 159.
Departing Berkeley
SFI Micro Working Group
Off to Santa Fe Institute for Evolutionary dynamics of cheating in viral infections (April 10–15, 2024). Read more
2023
SFI Micro Working Group
Off to Santa Fe Institute for Slow-fast dynamics in biological systems II (October 7–11, 2023).
Aspen Center for Physics program
Off to Aspen Center for Physics to attend the Program on statistical physics & adaptive immunity (August 14–25, 2023). Read more
SMBE 2023
Off to Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) 2023 in Ferrara, Italy; Will gives a talk and receives a “Young” Investigator award (July 23–27, 2023). Read more