Sara Mitri

The paper quantifies mating strategies in yeast gametes, revealing a reproductive hierarchy where sibling gametes have divergent mating trajectories and temporal heterogeneity shapes compatibility.

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.

This study identifies how competition and protection in microbial communities influence resistance evolution, using mathematical models and experiments with E. coli and M. liquefaciens.

The paper shows that trace metabolites enable coexistence of bacterial species in chemostats, challenging the expectation of competitive exclusion.

The paper demonstrates that acidifying bacteria can enhance antibiotic efficacy against pathogens by lowering pH, with stronger effects at higher glucose concentrations.

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

This study evolves four bacterial species in isolation and community to examine how positive interactions influence evolution, finding weakened interactions and resource specialization.