Kathrin Wippel

This study uses experimental evolution to show that complex microbial communities can adapt to new plant hosts through genomic changes, improving colonization fitness without destabilizing the microbiota.

The paper shows bacteria suppress fungal antimicrobial gene expression in soil microbiota, reducing fungal colonization and revealing community-level microbial competition.

The paper establishes reproducible methods for plant-microbiome research using fabricated ecosystems across multiple laboratories.

The study shows that intra-genus competition among Pseudomonas strains in synthetic communities determines their protective effect against a pathogenic isolate in Arabidopsis thaliana.

The paper develops a gnotobiotic system to study plant-fungal pathogen interactions, showing that specific effector proteins influence virulence and microbiota manipulation.