Tom Smith

Prevalence of electricity production among culturable bacteria

This study surveys electricity production among environmental bacterial isolates, finding 11-22% of taxa display exoelectrogenic activity, identifying three novel species and showing phylogenetic conservation of the trait.

General Patterns in the Temperature-Dependence of Heterotrophic Microbial Interactions

This study develops a mathematical framework to predict how temperature affects pairwise interactions among heterotrophic microbes, revealing that interactions are more thermally sensitive than metabolic traits and show systematic temperature-dependent changes.

Phylogenetic clustering of microbial communities as a biomarker for chemical pollution

The paper shows that microbial community phylogenetic clustering can indicate chemical pollution, using the net relatedness index as a monitoring tool.

The Role of Metabolic Strategies in Determining Microbial Community Diversity along Temperature Gradients

This study predicts a unimodal temperature-diversity pattern in microbial communities and supports it with empirical evidence from global temperature gradients.