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Our recent study highlights important physical factors that control bacterial cell-cell interactions in soil and promote genetic information transfer in support of soil microbial diversity. PNASNews, ETH Zürich, MIT CEE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) pnas.org/content/early/…

Our new pre-print on how bacterial social interactions in bacterial aggregates enable degradation of polymeric organic matter!

Microbial cooperation matters for ecosystem processes like the carbon cycle. That's the claim in our latest preprint (kudos to Ali Ebrahimi and Julia Schwartzman once again!): biorxiv.org/content/10.110… – Let me know your thoughts.

New paper out today! This was a big project from my postdoc, where we looked at how historical contingency influences composition and function of bacterial communities. We found that community context matters - the same strain acts differently when in different microcosms.

Thought I'd stick this thesis chapter online in a more accessible format... more to come! ;) Only made possible by my genetics partner in crime, Javier Dubert, and the rest of my lab family <3

Thrilled to have this story finally published!

Excited to share this work! I learned a lot from this collaboration thanks in large part to my fantastic co-authors :) **DM me if the bioRxiv link is down and you'd like a copy**

Very happy to share our work with @HochTwit and Sander van Doorn! We propose that quorum sensing is a mechanism used by bacteria to sense the environment as a collective by pooling information at relevant scales and harnessing the 'wisdom of the crowds'. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New work out now as a preprint. Collective behaviours in microbial populations while growing on polysaccharides are associated with their enzyme secretion strategies 👉🏽biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Why don't surgical wounds get infected more often? Here, we report that 33% of skin cancer surgery wounds a week after surgery are colonized S. aureus-- while intact skin rarely has this pathogen. Why don't these wounds go on to present signs of infection? [1/n]

Many genomic regions are known to differ significantly across the human population, so having one reference human genome sequence is simply not enough for us to understand the extent to which these differences affect human health. #MedGeneEd22 go.usa.gov/xJ8fm

Prof. Otto X. Cordero with postdocs Julia Schwartzman Ali Ebrahimi reveal how an algae-eating bacterium solves an environmental engineering challenge published today in Current Biology news.mit.edu/2022/better-li…

Wow, thank you to Quanta Magazine's Carrie Arnold for the fantastic piece on my recent work with Otto X. Cordero Ali Ebrahimi Yuya Sato Ben Roller Gray Chadwick and Victoria Orphan 'Ocean Bacteria Reveal an Unexpected Multicellular Form' quantamagazine.org/ocean-bacteria… via Quanta Magazine

I'm excited to share the most recent work from the pharmabiome.com team, introducing the notion of 'succinotypes' in human gut microbiota. These correspond to the identity of the bacterial taxon that occupies the succinate consumption niche. doi.org/10.1101/2023.1…

It’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS). I’m reaching out to identify clinicians/patients who have encountered pediatric IDCS, indeterminate dendritic cell histiocytosis