The transfer of nutrients between cells, or cross-feeding, is a ubiquitous feature of microbial
communities with emergent properties that influence our health and orchestrate global …

Microbial ecology is the study of microbes in the natural environment and their interactions
with each other. Investigating the nature of microorganisms residing within a specific habitat …

We investigated the mechanisms of osmoadaptation in the order Halobacteriales, with special
emphasis on Haladaptatus paucihalophilus, known for its ability to survive in low salinities…

Microbial interactions, including mutualistic nutrient exchange (cross-feeding), underpin the
flow of energy and materials in all ecosystems. Metabolic exchanges are difficult to assess …

Double emulsion droplets (DEs) are water/oil/water droplets that can be sorted via
fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS), allowing for new opportunities in high-throughput cellular …

Direct electron uptake is emerging as a key process for electron transfer in anaerobic
microbial communities, both between species and from extracellular sources, such as zero‐valent …

Our understanding of in situ microbial physiology is primarily based on physiological
characterization of fast-growing and readily-isolatable microbes. Microbial enrichments to obtain …

Nutrient cross‐feeding can stabilize microbial mutualisms, including those important for
carbon cycling in nutrient‐limited anaerobic environments. It remains poorly understood how …

Purple non-sulfur bacteria (PNSB) use light for energy and organic substrates for carbon
and electrons when growing photoheterotrophically. This lifestyle generates more reduced …

Many mutualistic microbial relationships are based on nutrient cross-feeding. Traditionally,
cross-feeding is viewed as being unidirectional, from the producer to the recipient. This is …