EEM-Lab

Triple Hurrah, first to Tania and Senka for successfully and brilliantly passing their PhD exams (bravo, Tania and Senka!), and to Maxime for the appearance of his first paper on Habitat fragmentation in picoliter droplets showing the effects of phenotypic variation of founder cells of species pairs on their reproductive success (aka the picoliter droplet story). Bravo Maxime, Isaline and all the other collaborators.

Congratulations to Senka, Manupriyam and Marian, with help of Vladimir and Nico, for their combined forces to show the role of nutrient niche availability and metabolite facilitation that control proliferation of bacterial inoculants into (contaminated) soils! A special thanks to Guillem, Hans and Shini for collaborating on the metatranscriptomics analysis. A milestone for our lab! See the new Nature Communications publication here (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41467-024-46933-1)

We're very happy that our concerted review on microbiome engineering, collectively written by members of the NCCR Microbiomes, has now been published. We hope this will be widely interesting for researchers in the field!

Ahead of print: https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mmbr.00063-23

Congratulations to Valentina and Nico, in collaboration with CHUV researchers, for their publication on evolution and diversity of integrative and conjugative elements (ICEs) in clinical Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains.