William Driscoll

Assistant Professor of Biology

Olmsted Building
Middletown, PA 17057
wwd17@psu.edu
717-948-6308

Bio & Links
Publications

Huck Affiliations

Microbiome Center

Publication Tags

Allelopathy Altruism Population Toxicity Cell Death Life Cycle Sociobiology Apoptosis Hawks Algal Bloom Pseudomonas Bacteria Cells Chlorophyta Microorganisms Yeast Columbidae Prymnesium Performance Punishment Microalga Biological Control Organisms Prymnesium Parvum Ecosystems

Most Recent Publications

Programmed cell death can increase the efficacy of microbial bet-hedging

Eric Libby, William W. Driscoll, William C. Ratcliff, 2018, Scientific Reports

Erratum: Publisher Correction: Programmed cell death can increase the efficacy of microbial bet hedging (Scientific reports (2018) 8 1 (1120))

Eric Libby, William W. Driscoll, William C. Ratcliff, 2018, Scientific Reports on p. 6433

Cooperation and competition shape ecological resistance during periodic spatial disturbance of engineered bacteria

Cortney E. Wilson, Allison J. Lopatkin, Travis J.A. Craddock, William W. Driscoll, Omar Tonsi Eldakar, Jose V. Lopez, Robert P. Smith, 2017, Scientific Reports on p. 440

Synergistic cooperation promotes multicellular performance and unicellular free-rider persistence

William W. Driscoll, Michael Travisano, 2017, Nature Communications

Eco-evolutionary feedbacks between private and public goods

William W. Driscoll, Jeremiah D. Hackett, Régis Ferrière, 2016, Ecology Letters on p. 81-97

Microbes are not bound by sociobiology

Paul B. Rainey, Nicolas Desprat, William W. Driscoll, Xue Xian Zhang, 2014, Evolution; international journal of organic evolution on p. 3344-3355

Cellular differentiation and individuality in the 'minor' multicellular taxa

Matthew D. Herron, Armin Rashidi, Deborah E. Shelton, William W. Driscoll, 2013, Biological Reviews on p. 844-861

When hawks give rise to doves

Omar Tonsi Eldakar, Andrew C. Gallup, William Wallace Driscoll, 2013, Evolution; international journal of organic evolution on p. 1549-1560

Allelopathy as an emergent, exploitable public good in the bloom-forming microalga prymnesium parvum

William W. Driscoll, Noelle J. Espinosa, Omar T. Eldakar, Jeremiah D. Hackett, 2013, Evolution; international journal of organic evolution on p. 1582-1590

Spontaneous gac mutants of pseudomonas biological control strains: Cheaters or mutualists?

William W. Driscoll, John W. Pepper, Leland S. Pierson, Elizabeth A. Pierson, 2011, Applied and Environmental Microbiology on p. 7227-7235