Jorge Calle-Espinosa

This study uses mathematical models to show that high-order synergistic interactions enhance stability in diverse microbial communities, suggesting their importance for engineered consortia.

The paper presents a genome-scale metabolic network for the cedar aphid's endosymbiotic consortium, confirming known metabolic complementation and identifying new pathway sharing, while exploring evolutionary mechanisms.

The paper constructs a genome-scale metabolic model of the whitefly endosymbiont to show that its energy production is linked to amino acid and carotenoid synthesis, challenging the idea that genome reduction limits biosynthetic potential.