Cristina M. Herren

This paper introduces RPD, a nonparametric method to measure microbial sample divergence from reference datasets, showing it outperforms existing methods in several analyses.

The paper examines how sexual reproduction's mate limitation affects community diversity, rarity, and dominance through theoretical models, finding that mate limitation reduces diversity and increases rarity in sexual communities.

The paper develops a model showing stronger gut microbiome connectivity increases resistance to invading bacteria and finds lower connectivity correlates with higher relapse rates after FMT.