Thrilled to share this perspective on functional redundancy in microbial communities, led by @annasophieweiss.bsky.social ! Check out Anna's thread below 👇

Excited to share Rachel Szabo's new perspective: "How many ways are there to be a phage?". Here, we propose quantitative phage phenotyping as the foundation for a trait-based framework for phage ecology. Give it a read!

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Very happy to share Alyssa's Concepts & Synthesis piece, with @simonvanvliet.bsky.social ! We argue microbial interactions can be understood as modular processes, and that this helps us better characterize, model, and predict community dynamics.
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Excited to share that I've been awarded a 5-year NIH MIRA (R35) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences!

The lab is growing! We're recruiting postdocs and research techs interested in microbial ecology, quantitative microscopy, microfluidics, and molecular biology.

Please share!

Excited to share our new paper! Emanuele and @benjaminraach.bsky.social combine experiments and modelling to show that phage-mediated lysis can increase the growth rate of surviving bacteria by releasing resources back into the environment. 👇
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Delighted to share this review, which was recently published in its final form. We hope it will serve as a useful primer on community ecology for microbiologists, and were thrilled to have many of our group members involved in this piece! 🤩

Very excited to share our new preprint, led by Alyssa Henderson! We ask why auxotrophy is so widespread in bacteria, and find that phylogeny is the dominant predictor of autotrophy, as opposed to environmental context. Check it out! 👇

Excited to share our new paper led by Divvya Ramesh: Limits to the evolution of metabolic dependency in spatially structured microbial communities 🧫
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We are incredibly grateful to have spent three inspiring days in beautiful Blonay at our annual group retreat, discussing science and continuing our group tradition of forming human pyramids! 🤸

Excited to share our new work! We found that bacteria can turn antagonism into a foraging strategy - by killing their neighbours, and eating their remains 🧫🔬💥

How does metabolic dependency evolve at the single cell level? 🔄

In our new preprint, Divvya Ramesh combines microfluidics, microscopy and modelling to show that the benefits of gene loss are highly context dependent.

Check it out here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Olga Schubert from @eawag.bsky.social / @ethzurich.bsky.social on Causes and consequences of collective metabolism in microbial communities
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Check out our new perspective on spatial patterns in microbial communities, the product of an exciting collaboration led by Alyssa Henderson and @adelpanta.bsky.social ! 🧫

We are so thrilled that Martin and Olga have won the Art of Leadership (ALEA) award - for being incredible group leaders who give us independence, support, trust, and ultimately prioritise our wellbeing above all else. We are so grateful to be co-led by them!

Thrilled to announce that Matthias Hülsmann's new perspective is now out in @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social! This exciting work is shaping how our group thinks about collective microbiome metabolism. Check it out! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Check out this new preprint on antagonism as a foraging strategy, led by the brilliant Astrid Stubbusch and @nonresidentdesi.bsky.social!

Grateful for the opportunity to share my enthusiasm and thoughts on microbial ecology and bacterial communities in Cell Systems! What an exciting time to contribute to this fascinating field and to adress the „macro in the micro“. www.cell.com/cell-systems...

Check out our new paper, led by Astrid Stubbusch and @nonresidentdesi.bsky.social on bacterial degradation-dispersal cycles, out in @elife.bsky.social!