(BeySICH) Beyond Static Interactions in microbial Colonization Histories: understanding the roles of predation and evolution

Description of the granted funding

The microbial species we can observe in our guts, on a piece of fermented food, or in a sample of thawing permafrost depend upon the order and timing that different species happened to arrive in that community, a phenomenon known as priority effects. This project will address fundamental questions about why microbial community composition and function often depend on who gets there first. Why do these priority effects happen? When are they important? What do they do to community function? And can we predict and anticipate them? DNA sequencing and high-throughput phenotyping of microbial communities will be used with ecological theory and probabilistic modeling to deliver insights into the mechanisms behind microbial community assembly under priority effects. Results will pave the way for subsequent work to bottom-up engineer microbial ecosystems for specific applications ranging from treating human disease to ecosystem restoration.
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Starting year

2023

End year

2027

Granted funding

Shane Hogle Orcid -palvelun logo
576 350 €

Funder

Research Council of Finland

Funding instrument

Academy research fellows

Other information

Funding decision number

356133

Fields of science

Ecology, evolutionary biology

Research fields

Ekologia, evoluutiobiologia ja ekofysiologia