Jacopo Grilli

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Research Scientist
Jacopo Grilli
Quantitative Life Sciences
+39 040 2240 4148
jgrilli@ictp.it
+39 040 2240 4148
jgrilli@ictp.it
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Jacopo Grilli

I am a biological physicist working at the interface between ecology, evolution, and statistical mechanics.

I received my Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Padova. I was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Chicago and an Omidyar postdoctoral fellow at the Santa Fe Institute

Broadly speaking, I am interested in understanding complex phenomena starting from simple rules and minimal assumptions. Most of my current research focuses on the dynamics of large (microbial) ecological communities, with a particular focus on coexistence, diversity, and variability. I combine tools from statistical mechanics and theoretical ecology with ideas from quantitative physiology and evolutionary genomics to address fundamental questions in microbial ecology and evolution.

Publications

Journal article
2025
Incoherent feedback from coupled amino acids and ribosome pools generates damped oscillations in growing E. coli
Nature Communications (2025)
Rossana Droghetti | Philippe Fuchs | Ilaria Iuliani | Valerio Firmano | Giorgio Tallarico | Ludovico Calabrese | Jacopo Grilli | Bianca Sclavi | Luca Ciandrini | Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino
Preprint
2023
The effect of demographic stochasticity on predatory-prey oscillations
Solmaz Golmohammadi | Mina Zarei | Jacopo Grilli
Preprint
2023
The effect of demographic stochasticity on predatory-prey oscillations
Solmaz Golmohammadi | Mina Zarei | Jacopo Grilli
Journal article
2023
Universality of evolutionary trajectories under arbitrary forms of self-limitation and competition
Physical Review E (2023)
Andrea Mazzolini | Jacopo Grilli
Journal article
2023
Environmental fluctuations explain the universal decay of species-abundance correlations with phylogenetic distance
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2023)
Matteo Sireci | Miguel A. Muñoz | Jacopo Grilli
Journal article
2023
Keystone intransitive loops
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2023)
Jacopo Grilli
Preprint
2022
Stable cooperation emerges in stochastic multiplicative growth
Physical Review E (2022)
Lorenzo Fant | Onofrio Mazzarisi | Emanuele Panizon | Jacopo Grilli
Journal article
2022
Protein degradation sets the fraction of active ribosomes at vanishing growth
PLOS Computational Biology (2022)
Ludovico Calabrese | Oleg A Igoshin | Jacopo Grilli | Matteo Osella | Christopher P. Kempes | Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino | Luca Ciandrini
Journal article
2022
The stochastic logistic model with correlated carrying capacities reproduces beta-diversity metrics of microbial communities
PLOS Computational Biology (2022)
Silvia Zaoli | Tobias Bollenbach | Jacopo Grilli
Journal article
2022
ppGpp is a bacterial cell size regulator
Current Biology (2022)
Ferhat Büke | Jacopo Grilli | Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino | Gregory Bokinsky | Sander J. Tans
Journal article
2021
A macroecological description of alternative stable states reproduces intra- and inter-host variability of gut microbiome
Science Advances (2021)
Silvia Zaoli | Jacopo Grilli
Journal article
2021
Threshold accumulation of a constitutive protein explains E. coli cell-division behavior in nutrient upshifts
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2021)
Mia Panlilio | Jacopo Grilli | Giorgio Tallarico | Ilaria Iuliani | Bianca Sclavi | Pietro Cicuta | Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino
Journal article
2020
Macroecological laws describe variation and diversity in microbial communities
Nature Communications (2020)
Jacopo Grilli
Journal article
2018
Concurrent processes set E. coli cell division
Science Advances (2018)
Gabriele Micali | Jacopo Grilli | Matteo Osella | Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino
Journal article
2018
Coexistence of many species in random ecosystems
Nature Ecology & Evolution (2018)
Carlos A. Serván | José A. Capitán | Jacopo Grilli | Kent E. Morrison | Stefano Allesina
Preprint
2017
Family-specific scaling laws in bacterial genomes
Eleonora de Lazzari | Jacopo Grilli | Sergei Maslov | Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino
Preprint
2017
Reconciling cooperation, biodiversity and stability in complex ecological communities
Chengyi Tu | Samir Suweis | Jacopo Grilli | Marco Formentin | Amos Maritan
Preprint
2017
The effect of population abundances on the stability of large random ecosystems
Theo Gibbs | Jacopo Grilli | Tim Rogers | Stefano Allesina
Journal article
2017
Collapse of resilience patterns in generalized Lotka-Volterra dynamics and beyond
Physical Review E (2017)
Tu, C. | Grilli, J. | Schuessler, F. | Suweis, S.
Journal article
2017
Family-specific scaling laws in bacterial genomes
Nucleic Acids Research (2017)
De Lazzari, E. | Grilli, J. | Maslov, S. | Lagomarsino, M.C.
Journal article
2017
Feasibility and coexistence of large ecological communities
Nature Communications (2017)
Grilli, J. | Adorisio, M. | Suweis, S. | Barabás, G. | Banavar, J.R. | Allesina, S. | Maritan, A.
Journal article
2017
Relevant parameters in models of cell division control
Physical Review E (2017)
Grilli, J. | Osella, M. | Kennard, A.S. | Lagomarsino, M.C.
Journal article
2017
Last name analysis of mobility, gender imbalance, and nepotism across academic systems
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2017)
Jacopo Grilli | Stefano Allesina
Journal article
2017
Higher-order interactions stabilize dynamics in competitive network models
Nature (2017)
Jacopo Grilli | György Barabás | Matthew J. Michalska-Smith | Stefano Allesina
Preprint
2016
Relevant parameters in models of cell division control
Jacopo Grilli | Matteo Osella | Andrew S. Kennard | Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino
Preprint
2016
Collapse of Resilience Patterns in Generalized Lotka-Volterra Dynamics and Beyond
Chengyi Tu | Jacopo Grilli | Friedrich Schuessler | Samir Suweis
Journal article
2016
Individuality and universality in the growth-division laws of single E. Coli cells
Physical Review E (2016)
Kennard, A.S. | Osella, M. | Javer, A. | Grilli, J. | Nghe, P. | Tans, S.J. | Cicuta, P. | Cosentino Lagomarsino, M.
Journal article
2016
Statistical mechanics of ecological systems: Neutral theory and beyond
Reviews of Modern Physics (2016)
Azaele, S. | Suweis, S. | Grilli, J. | Volkov, I. | Banavar, J.R. | Maritan, A.
Journal article
2016
Modularity and stability in ecological communities
Nature Communications (2016)
Jacopo Grilli | Tim Rogers | Stefano Allesina
Journal article
2016
Cooperation, competition and the emergence of criticality in communities of adaptive systems
Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (2016)
Hidalgo, J. | Grilli, J. | Suweis, S. | Maritan, A. | Muñoz, M.A.

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Quantitative Microbial Ecology

Course given together with Martina Dal Bello at Serrapilheira/ICTP-SAIFR Training Program in Quantitative Biology and Ecology