About

When Bryan isn't busy eating doughnuts, hanging out with his cat, Pancake, or learning new crafts he busies himself as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the COMMONS Lab at UC Irvine.

Bryan takes an interdisciplinary approach using theoretical and experimental methods to understand the effect of microbial interactions, ecology, and evolution. Broadly, I am interested in population modeling, dynamical systems, social ecology and behavior, and examining model and parameter choices in biological research. I enjoy working with a diverse array of study systems. Still, I have an affinity for working with social microbes because they offer a unique opportunity to test mathematical theory in a more controlled setting. See my past and current research projects here.

Bryan is also interested in examining biological theories through the lens of social science and philosophy, too, and applying these ideas to both the ways science interacts with society as well as the way society influences the way we do and think about scientific research.

He has also been heavily involved in science communication, LGBTQ+ outreach and activism, and increasing access, representation, and opportunities for historically excluded groups in STEM.

Bryan on the internet:

media coverage

IMPACT magazine feature article. Creativity, research, and activism intersect for Martin-O'Neill fellow.

Podcast research interview: Assigned Scientist at Bachelor's. On math and microbes.

BIOVERSE article: Recognizing sex diversity in teaching introductory biology.

Publications

In prep for submission

Bryan K. Lynn, Patrick De Leenheer, Ben Dalziel. Environmental Engineering via Biofilm Formation Avoids the Tragedy of the Commons in the Chemostat.

Peer reviewed Journal articles

[4] Lynn, Bryan K., Patrick De Leenheer, Martin Schuster. 2024. Putting theory to the test: an integrated computational/experimental of the tragedy of the commons. PLOS ONE, 19 e0300887. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0300887

[3] Poo, Sinlan, Allison Bogisich, Mariah Mack, Bryan K. Lynn, Anne Devan-Song. 2021. Post-release comparisons of amphibian growth reveal challenges with sperm cryopreservation as a conservation tool. Conservation Science and Practice, e572. http://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.572

[2] Lynn, Bryan K. , Patrick De Leenheer. 2019. Division of labor in bacterial populations. Mathematical Biosciences, 316. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mbs.2019.108257

[1] Smith, Parker, Jamison Cozart, Bryan K. Lynn, Erin Alberts, Emanuela Frangipani, Martin Schuster. 2019. Bacterial Cheaters Evade Punishment by Cyanide. iScience, 19, 101-109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2019.07.015

Other publications

Poo, Sinlan, Anne Devan-Song, Allison Bogisich, Bryan K. Lynn, Mariah Mack. 2023. ​ Can freezing frog sperm help with conservation efforts? Current Conservation. https://www.currentconservation.org/can-freezing-frog-sperm-help-with-conservation-efforts/

Articles authored by Bryan about the lives and research of graduate students at OSU written for the podcast Inspiration Dissemination.
Some examples:

Research and Projects

Microbial behavior & population dynamics 🧪📈💻

A  moving cartoon of a chemostat device showing growth medium being pumped into the bacterial culturing flask and the mixed solution being pumped out.
Using Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a chemostat environment, I research how cooperation influences long-term population outcomes. I then compare those empirical outcomes to theoretical predictions to examine the predictive efficacy of the mathematical models.
Keywords: cooperation, dynamical systems, mechanistic modeling, sociomicrobiology, Tragedy of the Commons, chemostat

Conservation & applied science 📈💻

Predictive modeling can be a powerful tool when applied to conservation efforts. I collaborate with field biologists to create biologically accurate population models used to describe their populations, and make predictions on the effects of conservation efforts.
Keywords: conservation, amphibians, population models

Cooperation in dynamically forming groups 🔢💻

Image of Gretchin Weiners from the movie Mean Girls. In text is the quote: you cant sit with us.
Cooperation is often examined within pre-existing groups, here I used agent-based modeling to ask what happens when groups have the ability to refuse to let undesirable members join.
Keywords: cooperation, agent-based modeling, ostracism

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