Nic M. Vega

This study uses Galleria mellonella larvae to test hypotheses about innate immunity's role in bacterial infections and shows bacteriostatic drugs and phages are as effective as bactericidal antibiotics.

The paper investigates host-microbe dynamics in C. elegans by combining experiments and modeling, finding that stochastic switching between growth rate phenotypes explains observed bacterial load variation better than traditional models.

The paper analyzes microbial abundance data in C. elegans to assess host-bacteria and bacteria-bacteria interactions, finding that neither model alone fully explains the observed correlations.

The paper shows that the order of bacterial colonization in squash bugs strongly affects symbiont population establishment, regardless of strain competition or availability.

This study uses Caenorhabditis elegans to quantify heterogeneity in bacterial transmission by decoupling shedding and susceptibility distributions.

The paper shows that stochastic colonization in C. elegans leads to heterogeneous bacterial communities, with variation controlled by colonization and birth rates.