Margaret McFall‐Ngai

The paper adapts kallisto-bustools for bacterial scRNA-seq to enable uniform preprocessing and analysis of microbial single-cell transcriptomics.

This study examines the developmental and transcriptomic responses of Hawaiian bobtail squid to ocean warming and acidification, finding trade-offs in metabolism versus development and molecular changes like alternative splicing.

The paper develops a multimodal imaging pipeline to enable cryo-ET of symbiotic tissues, revealing nanoscale structural details of host-microbe interactions in Hawaiian bobtail squid.

This study examines how climate-driven warming affects the symbiotic relationship between the bobtail squid Euprymna scolopes and the bacterium Vibrio fischeri, finding reduced hatching success, lower survival, and diminished symbiosis capacity under higher temperatures.

The paper investigates microbiome network stability across different environments and identifies key factors like gatekeeper species and negative interactions that contribute to robustness.