Romy Chakraborty

The paper uses controlled enrichments along ecological gradients to uncover eco-evolutionary forces shaping microbial biodiversity in subsurface sediment.

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

The paper constructs a 15-member bacterial SynCom that enhances Brachypodium growth under drought stress by incorporating plant growth-promoting traits and osmoprotectant synthesis.

The paper introduces Coaux-Seq, a method using DNA barcoded fragment libraries and auxotroph complementation to characterize protein function in bacteria, identifying 53 previously unvalidated proteins.

This study investigates how genomic and environmental factors influence the distribution of Castellaniella species in a contaminated subsurface, identifying genetic mechanisms underlying their adaptation to stress.

The paper characterizes subsurface media from contaminated and background sites to understand biogeochemical interactions and microbial activity.

The paper introduces a method called 'magic pools' to efficiently assess transposon delivery vectors in bacteria by using barcoded libraries and sequencing to identify effective vectors for mutagenesis.

The paper systematically annotates protein functions in diverse bacteria using transposon mutant phenotypes, identifying 8,487 proteins with previously unknown functions.