ERC Advanced Grant · 2024
A Metabolic Theory of Microbial Ecology
Theoretical ecology has genuine potential to revolutionise microbiology, and vice versa. However, current models, such as the Lotka-Volterra equations, are typically too simplistic to apply and test rigorously. Critically, these models fail to capture microbial metabolism, which my lab and others have found central to predicting the ecology of diverse communities. My goal, therefore, is to develop a new theory of microbial ecology, rooted in metabolism, and to rigorously test it. We will capture nutrient competition, cross-feeding, interference competition and phage, and build our framework using methods from statistical mechanics. Throughout, we will experimentally test our theory using…
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