EEB Thursday Seminar Series - Environmental modulation of microbial interactions and community assembly
Martina Dal Bello, Yale University
This event is part of our ongoing Thursday Seminar Series.
Microbial communities are crucial for our health and the functioning of the planet, but the rules governing how they assemble are still unclear. In this talk, I will outline mechanistic links between changes in the diversity and structure of microbial communities and variations in fundamental environmental variables, including available nutrients, temperature, and salinity. Overall, my work shows the power of combining theory-informed controlled experiments with data from communities in natural habitats to get a mechanistic understanding of the principles governing microbial community assembly.
Microbial communities are crucial for our health and the functioning of the planet, but the rules governing how they assemble are still unclear. In this talk, I will outline mechanistic links between changes in the diversity and structure of microbial communities and variations in fundamental environmental variables, including available nutrients, temperature, and salinity. Overall, my work shows the power of combining theory-informed controlled experiments with data from communities in natural habitats to get a mechanistic understanding of the principles governing microbial community assembly.
Building: | Biological Sciences Building |
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Event Type: | Workshop / Seminar |
Tags: | Ecology, Ecology & Biology, Ecology And Evolutionary Biology |
Source: | Happening @ Michigan from EEB Thursday Seminars, Program in Biology |