Djordje Bajić

TL;DR: Monitoring the assembly of hundreds of soil- and plant-derived microbiomes in well-controlled minimal synthetic media shows that the community-level function and the coarse-grained taxonomy of the resulting communities are highly predictable and governed by nutrient availability, despite substantial species variability.

TL;DR: It is shown that soil and plant-associated microbiota, cultivated ex situ in minimal synthetic environments with a single supplied source of carbon, universally re-assemble into large and dynamically stable communities with strikingly predictable coarse-grained taxonomic and functional compositions.

TL;DR: Inspired by the study of complex genetic interactions, this work examines how the amylolytic rate of combinatorial assemblages of six starch-degrading soil bacteria depend on the separate functional contributions from each species and their interactions and proposes a quantitative framework that allows us to separate the effect of behavioral and population dynamics interactions.

TL;DR: Computation of microbial ecosystems in time and space (COMETS) as mentioned in this paper extends dynamic flux balance analysis to generate simulations of multiple microbial species in molecularly complex and spatially structured environments.

TL;DR: This protocol provides a detailed guideline for installing, testing and applying COMETS 2 to different scenarios, with broad applicability to microbial communities across biomes and scales.