Joao Xavier

Joao Xavier is a Professor at the Weill Cornell Medicine Graduate School of Medical Sciences, affiliated with the Department of Physiology, Biophysics & Systems Biology. His research bridges evolutionary theory and mechanistic biology to study multicellular systems.

• Key Research Areas:
  • Bacterial Biofilms and antibiotic resistance
  • Swarming motility in bacterial communities
  • Cancer evolution and tumor microenvironment interactions
  • Multi-scale computational modeling

His work focuses on uncovering universal principles of biological robustness through integrative approaches combining experiments and computational models. Current projects explore cooperation dynamics in microbial communities and evolutionary mechanisms in cancer progression.