Antibiotic resistance: Insights from evolution experiments and mathematical modeling
Antibiotic resistance is a growing public health problem. To gain a fundamental understanding of resistance evolution, a combination of systematic experimental and theoretical approaches is required. Evolution experiments combined with next-generation sequencing techniques, laboratory automation, and mathematical modeling are enabling the investigation of resistance development at an unprecedented level of detail. Recent work has directly tracked the intricate stochastic dynamics of bacterial populations in which resistant mutants emerge and compete. In addition, new approaches have enabled measuring how prone a large number of genetically perturbed strains are to evolve resistance. Based on advances in quantitative cell physiology, predictive theoretical models of resistance are increasingly being developed. Taken together, a new strategy for observing, predicting, and ultimately controlling resistance evolution is emerging.
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