Álvaro Sánchez

The latent simplicity of microbial ecological interactions

The paper shows microbial community function is predictable due to coordinated interactions across species, not because interactions are simple.

Statistical learning of bacterial growth in combinatorially constructed environments

The paper measures bacterial growth in combinatorial nutrient environments to estimate resource interactions and shows that simple models can predict growth in novel conditions.

Full factorial construction of synthetic microbial communities

The paper introduces a low-cost method to assemble all possible combinations of microbial strains, demonstrating it with eight Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains to identify optimal consortia.

On the limits of detection of epistatic higher-order interactions

This paper shows that higher-order interactions in microbial communities are undetectable due to noise and statistical constraints, not because they are biologically insignificant.