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Complex microbial communities: application of supply-demand principles to advance the science from describing diversity to explaining diversity
This project will involve collaboration with Jannie Hofmeyr (SU) on, amongst others the principles of supply and demand as driving force of metabolic activity, and incorporating them: 1) into existing experimental data sets to explore adaptive behavior amongst bacteria as a basis for the maintenance of microbial community function in environmental processes, and 2) a state-of-science review related to microbiological considerations for repository engineering and long-term safety of deep geological repositories of nuclear waste, as well as formulating recommendations for the way forward to predict the potential impact of microbial activity on the stability of these repositories.
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Bacterial community responses to micropollutants in chemically-stressed small rivers in Kenya using environmental DNA
Verbücheln, N., Schaufelberger, S., Cardis, T., Tanui, I. C., Kandie, F., Brack, W., Backhaus, T., & Inostroza, P. A. 2025. Bacterial co...
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Ecology drives the evolution of diverse social strategies in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Figueiredo, Alexandre R. T., Andreas Wagner, A and Rolf Kümmerli. 2021. Ecology drives the evolution of diverse social strategies in Pseudom...
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Competition for nutrients increases invasion resistance during assembly of microbial communities
Wagner, Andreas. 2022. Competition for nutrients increases invasion resistance during assembly of microbial communities. Molecular Ecology, ...
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Form and Function of Clostridium thermocellum Biofilms
Alexandru Dumitrache, Gideon Wolfaardt, Grant Allen, et al. 2013. Form and Function of Clostridium thermocellum Biofilms. Applied and enviro...
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Integration and Proliferation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA01 in Multispecies Biofilms
Mahtab Ghadakpour, Elanna Bester, Steven N. Liss, Michael Gardam, Ian Droppo, S. Hota and Gideon M. Wolfaard. 2014. Integration and Prolifer...