Publications

"I was an embarrassment to the department when they did research assessment exercises.
A message would go round the department: 'Please give a list of your recent publications.'
And I would send back a statement: 'None.'"
-Peter Higgs

A list of my publications

1. Confinement-induced accumulation and de-mixing of microscopic active-passive mixtures, S Williams, R Jeanneret, I Tuval, M Polin, Nature Communications volume 13, Article number: 4776 (2022).
   URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-32520-9

2.  Identifiability, Sensitivity, and Genetic Algorithms in Bacterial Biofilm Selection Models, S Williams, D Cheam, M K Nishiguchi, S S Sindi, S Khatri, E M Rutter, ArXiV (2025).
   URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20219

3. Low-abundance Taxa Drive Host Microbiome Response to Temperature Stress, K Muffett, S Williams, S MacVittie, M JW Schwiesow, S A Mendoza, S A Mendoza, H Hatch-West, E M Soggin, BioArXiV (2025).
   URL: Coming soon!

A list of my publications, in prep

1. [Title TBD: active-passive particles in confinement through fore-aft asymmetric particles], S Williams, M Polin.

2. Modelling Thermal Stress Effects on Bobtail Squid Physiology and the Resulting Impacts on Symbiosis Establishment, S Williams, K Ruiz, E Heath-Heckman, E Rutter, S Khatri. 

3. Building Identifiable Size-Structured Models of the Model System Exaiptasia Diaphana, S Williams, K Muffett, S Sindi,  S Khatri, E Rutter.

Open source code

[1] https://github.com/StephWilleniams/BiofilmModelAnalysis - A number of model analysis tools applied to analyse synthetic biofilm data. Includes a custom Julia module for practical identifiability, Sobol sensitivity analysis, and basic Genetic algorithms.