How do microbial communities assemble, reorganize, and converge on ecological function after disturbance?
When ecosystems recover, do microbial communities restore their original functions or build new functional configurations?
Identifying ecological principles that can predict, and eventually guide, the trajectories of complex microbial communities.
Mangrove sediment microbiomes reveal how seasonal flooding and hydrological connectivity shape microbial community dynamics in the southern Gulf of Mexico.
Genome-resolved metagenomics and stable-isotope probing reveal previously undescribed marine bacteria and metabolic strategies involved in alkane degradation in the North Atlantic.