J. R. van der Meer

This study shows that bacterial inoculants in soil microbiomes are influenced by niche availability and competitive facilitation, with selective niches improving their proliferation.

The paper develops a mathematical framework to model bacterial competition and cross-feeding, showing regulated metabolite utilization improves co-culture growth predictions.

The paper characterizes ICEclc-like elements in Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates, finding high prevalence and adaptive gene content.

The paper investigates the life-style of an integrative conjugative element in Pseudomonas, revealing a bistable orthogonal system that controls transfer competence in a subset of cells.

The paper shows that species-rich soil microbiomes develop reproducibly despite stochastic variation, suggesting deterministic principles in community formation and implications for soil restoration.

The paper identifies a four-step regulatory cascade that controls bistable transfer competence in ICEclc of Pseudomonas, revealing key regulators and demonstrating the mechanism of bistability through stochastic modeling.

The paper tests growth interactions between soil bacteria and inoculants in encapsulated pairs, finding that inoculants often boost sand cell growth, but not their own maximum productivity.

This study identifies genomic changes in Lactobacillus Firm5 strains from honey bees and bumble bees that underlie host specialization, showing honey bee strains have greater metabolic flexibility.

The paper studies how an integrative and conjugative element (ICE) replicates in specialized cells of Pseudomonas putida and shows that this replication enhances conjugation to recipient cells.

This paper evaluates two fluorescent readouts for measuring chemotaxis activity in E. coli: split-GFP fusions and pHluorin, showing both have potential but require optimization for biosensing.

This study expresses heterologous chemoreceptors from Pseudomonas putida in E. coli to enable chemotaxis to aromatic compounds, showing partial functionality for toluene and benzoate.

This study shows that Drosophila populations adapted to chronic malnutrition rely less on microbiota for digestion and growth, with changes in dFOXO targets.