What we do
Our group focuses on studying social interactions in microbial communities and how they evolve. We follow an interdisciplinary approach, where we quantify and characterize interactions within small bacterial communities in the lab, and then use computational and mathematical models to explain and predict how these interactions will change over ecological and evolutionary time-scales.
Main publication 2019
- Piccardi P et al.
Toxicity drives facilitation between 4 bacterial species
PNAS, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1906172116 - Testa S et al.
Spatial structure affects phage efficacy in infecting dual-strain biofilms of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Comm Biol, doi: 10.1038/s42003-019-0633-x
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