Prajwal Padmanabha

This study shows that four bacterial species can coexist across diverse environments through cross-feeding and niche partitioning, challenging the competitive exclusion principle.

The paper shows microbial interactions follow a skewed 'many weak, few strong' distribution, better modeled by lognormal than Gaussian, improving predictions of community diversity.

The paper shows that microbial metabolite release rates are negatively correlated with metabolite value, explaining variability better than other factors.