Ricky Wolff
@rwolff.bsky.social
Ecology and evolution of the human gut microbiome in Nandita Garud's lab at UCLA
Reposted by Ricky Wolff
We organized this one: academic.oup.com/femsle/artic... in 2024. It is coming back in 2026 with 2 hubs in the US (Michigan and SoCal). It was a great experience
MEEhubs2024: A hub-based conference on microbial ecology and evolution fostering sustainability
This paper presents a multi-hub conference on microbial ecology and evolution, analyzing participant and organizer feedback to provide a template and recom
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May 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
We organized this one: academic.oup.com/femsle/artic... in 2024. It is coming back in 2026 with 2 hubs in the US (Michigan and SoCal). It was a great experience
To me, it's telling that even strains that have evolved separately for a long time coexist readily (see FMT study below). I feel this strongly implicates physiological/metabolic flexibility, rather than fixed niche differentiation, as a driver of coexistence
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Durable coexistence of donor and recipient strains after fecal microbiota transplantation
The mystery of the success of clinical microbial transplant therapy is beginning to be decoded.
www.science.org
May 13, 2025 at 7:32 PM
To me, it's telling that even strains that have evolved separately for a long time coexist readily (see FMT study below). I feel this strongly implicates physiological/metabolic flexibility, rather than fixed niche differentiation, as a driver of coexistence
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
What does the fact that we see closely related bacterial strains stably coexisting in the human gut microbiome, in cheese cultures, in solar salterns, in the LTEE—really wherever we look—tell us about microbial physiology, ecology, and evolution?
May 12, 2025 at 9:17 PM
What does the fact that we see closely related bacterial strains stably coexisting in the human gut microbiome, in cheese cultures, in solar salterns, in the LTEE—really wherever we look—tell us about microbial physiology, ecology, and evolution?
following up in a different study system,
May 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM
following up in a different study system,
I love that "adaptation" here is explored across scales—from physiology/gene regulation, to ecology, to evolution over short (within host) and long (across many host lifetimes) timescales
March 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I love that "adaptation" here is explored across scales—from physiology/gene regulation, to ecology, to evolution over short (within host) and long (across many host lifetimes) timescales
