Zachary Frentz, PhD (he/him)

CV

Scientific Career

2022 - today    |    Max Planck Research Group Leader
Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany
2021 - 2022    |    Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University, Canada
2016 - 2021    |    Research Associate
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Columbia University, New York, USA
2015 - 2016    |    Postdoctoral Associate
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Columbia University, New York, USA
2011 - 2015    |    Postdoctoral Associate
Laboratory of Living Matter, Rockefeller University, , New York, USA

Education

2004 - 2011    |    Ph.D.
Rockefeller University, , New York, USA
1999 - 2003    |    B.S.
Mathematics and Chemistry, Stanford University, USA

Selected Publications

Nongenetic individuality, changeability, and inheritance in bacterial behavior
Pleška, M., Jordan, D., Frentz, Z., Xue, B., Leibler, S.
(2021) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118, no. 13: e2023322118.

Bioluminescence dynamics in single germinating bacterial spores reveal metabolic heterogeneity
Frentz, Z., Dworkin, J.
(2020) Journal of the Royal Society Interface 17, no. 170: 20200350.

Homeorhesis and ecological succession quantified in synthetic microbial ecosystems
Chuang, J. S., Frentz, Z., Leibler, S.
(2019) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116, no. 30: 14852-14861.

Strongly Deterministic Population Dynamics in Closed Microbial Communities
Frentz, Z., Kuehn, S., Leibler, S.
(2015) Physical Review X 5, no. 4: 041014.

Full publication list; see https://www.age.mpg.de/366098/publikationen