Po-Yi Ho

The paper identifies conserved growth predictors across bacterial species by coarse-graining metabolic networks using feature learning and validates them with experimental data.

This study uses phage-based manipulation to reveal ecological interactions in gut microbiomes by targeting Escherichia fergusonii and analyzing its role in community dynamics.

The paper models how cross-feeding network structures affect microbial community diversity under growth-inhibiting stresses, finding cyclic networks promote coexistence in narrow-spectrum inhibition but can be detrimental in broader contexts.

The paper shows that nutrient competition drives changes in gut microbiome composition under drug perturbations, with implications for predicting and mitigating drug side effects.

The paper challenges the assumption that reduced functional variability in microbial communities indicates selection, showing that apparent functional selection can be artifacts of statistical averaging and functional bias.