Omri M. Finkel

The paper identifies conserved inhibitory mechanisms in root-associated bacteria that affect both Arabidopsis thaliana and Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, using a scalable algal model to study cryptic inhibition.

This study shows that the functional composition of the nodule microbiome, not just the primary symbiont, better predicts legume performance in wild plants.

BBERT is a nucleotide large language model that accurately assigns taxonomic domains to short metagenomic reads without reference databases, improving assembly and downstream analysis.

The paper introduces an online-group-screening method to efficiently identify causal agents in high-throughput experiments, reducing the number of required tests by up to 80% in worst-case scenarios.