Fiona Whelan

This study examines how environmental factors and host sex influence the skin microbiome of three-spined sticklebacks across 17 freshwater lochs in Scotland.

This paper develops a population sequencing pipeline to estimate mutation rates in E. coli under varying population densities, finding a strong negative association between density and mutation rates.

The paper investigates microbial engraftment after FMT by analyzing multiple patients from a single donor and identifies a unique set of engrafted genes in responders.