Ernesto Berrios-Caro

Ernesto is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Manhart lab working on the predictability of evolution across biological scales and species diversity in Candida yeast. He is interested in developing mathematical models to uncover general principles governing adaptation, with a particular emphasis on microbial systems.

Before joining Rutgers, he was a postdoctoral fellow (DFG fellow) at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology and CAU Kiel. He obtained his PhD in physics at the University of Manchester.

Mathematical Modeling of Evolutionary Processes

B.Sc. Physics, University of Chile, Chile, 2014, M.Sc. Physics, University of Chile, Chile, 2017, Ph.D. Physics, University of Manchester, UK, 2020, Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology and CAU Kiel, Germany, 2024

Walter Benjamin Position grant from DFG. Project: “Bottlenecks, population dynamics, and antibiotic resistance evolution”.

President’s Doctoral Scholar Award, The University of Manchester, UK.

Beca Magíster Nacional Convocatoria 2015, CONICYT, Chile.

Competition delays multi-drug resistance evolution during combination therapy., Mutators can drive the evolution of multi-resistance to antibiotics.