NEWS
February, 2024: Welcome Elena! Elena joined us for her Bachelor's thesis to study collaboration in microbes.
December, 2023: Christmas came slightly early for us this year. We received a grant from the Volkswagen foundation to investigate the role of "unculturable" microbes in communities.
October, 2023: Welcome Sylvia! Sylvia is a Master student in our group and will setup a method to scan microbes in very high-throughput.
September, 2023: Welcome Veronika! Veronika joined us as an Erasmus Intern to explore how social microbes are.
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RECENT SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
C. Ratzke*, J. Barrere*, J. Gore
"Strength of species interactions determines biodiversity and stability in microbial communities"
Nature Ecology and Evolution 4, 376–383 (2020)
D. Amor, C. Ratzke, J. Gore
"Transient invaders can induce shifts between alternative stable states of microbial communities"
Science Advances, Vol. 6, no. 8 (2020)
C. Ratzke*, J.Denk*, J.Gore
"Ecological suicide in microbes"
Nature Ecology and Evolution 2, 867–872 (2018)
C. Ratzke, J. Gore
“Modifying and reacting to the environmental pH can drive bacterial interactions”
PLOS Biology 16(3): e2004248 (2018)
C. Ratzke, J.Gore
“Self-organized patchiness facilitates survival in a cooperatively growing Bacillus subtilis population”
Nature Microbiology, Article number: 16022 (2016)