Julia A. Schwartzman

This study shows deep-sea microbes degrade chitin and couple it to extracellular electron transfer using syntrophic interactions in anoxic sediments.

This study shows multicellular bacterial groups out-compete single cells in resource competition due to a trade-off between resource encounter consistency and quantity, driven by physical constraints.

The paper shows bacteria use contact-dependent antagonism to acquire nutrients by lysing neighbors during starvation, enhancing growth in spatially structured environments.