S. van Vliet

Cooperative colonization of the host and pathogen dissemination involves stochastic and spatially structured expression of virulence traits

The paper examines phenotypic heterogeneity in Pseudomonas syringae during plant colonization, showing stochastic and spatially structured expression of virulence traits and their role in bacterial cooperation and dissemination.

Experimentally Evolved Staphylococcus aureus Survives in the Presence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa by Acquiring Mutations in the Amino Acid Transporter, GltT

This study identifies mutations in the amino acid transporter GltT that enable Staphylococcus aureus to survive in the presence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa through altered glutamate metabolism.

Changes in interactions over ecological time scales influence single cell growth dynamics in a metabolically coupled marine microbial community

The paper studies how dynamic interactions between two marine microbes change over time, showing initial cooperation followed by competition as their environment shifts.

A Novel Biosensor Reveals Dynamic Changes of C-di-GMP in Differentiating Cells with Ultra-High Temporal Resolution

This paper introduces a genetically-encoded c-di-GMP biosensor, cdGreen2, capable of tracking c-di-GMP dynamics in live cells with ultra-high temporal resolution.

Multilevel selection favors fragmentation modes that maintain cooperative interactions in multispecies communities

This study uses a multilevel selection model to show that fragmentation strategies in multi-species groups can maintain cooperation by balancing cheater accumulation and species diversity.

Emergent microscale gradients give rise to metabolic cross-feeding and antibiotic tolerance in clonal bacterial populations

This study shows that microscale metabolic gradients in bacterial populations enable cross-feeding and antibiotic tolerance through spatially structured metabolic interactions.

The role of multilevel selection in host microbiome evolution

The paper uses multilevel selection theory to quantify when selection can act at the holobiont level, finding it requires slow microbiome heritability decay and short host generation times.

Local interactions lead to spatially correlated gene expression levels in bacterial groups.

The paper shows spatial correlations in gene expression among Escherichia coli cells due to local interactions and shared microenvironment.