Christian Ayala-Ortiz

The paper constructs genome-scale metabolic models for soil bacteria to identify phylogenetically conserved fermentation traits and their metabolic fluxes.

The paper examines how urbanization affects dissolved organic matter and microbial networks in a freshwater estuary by analyzing seasonal and spatial gradients.

This study shows microbial resilience in arid soils arises from dynamic network reorganization and stochastic processes, with Thermoproteota playing a key keystone role in nitrogen cycling.

The paper integrates soil metagenomes and metabolomes across the US to show microbial potential for decomposing recalcitrant carbon compounds, revealing metabolic specialization among bacterial and archaeal taxa.

MetaboDirect is an open-source pipeline for processing FTICR-MS metabolomics data, offering automated analysis, visualization, and biochemical network generation.