NEWS
May, 2025: New preprint! Weirdly, biodiversity of microbial communities tends to decrease with increasing nutrient diversity. But, we figured out why.
April, 2025: We got a new paper out in Nature Communications showing how communities can alter (and completely stop) microbial invasions in complex yet predictable ways.
February, 2025: Welcome Sunaina and Anna. Sunaina and Anna joined our lab as PhD students. Sunaina aims to reconstruct microbial interaction networks in complex communities and Anna will develop methods to investigate microbes in very high-throughput.
July, 2024: Or got an Innovation Grant of the University of Tübingen, to push our science towards founding a startup and get rich and famous.
May, 2024: Welcome Qiyun! Qiyun joined us as a postdoc to find out how unculturable these "unculturable bacteria" really are.
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RECENT SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
X. Ye, O. Shalev, C. Ratzke
"Biotic resistance predictably shifts microbial invasion regimes"
Nature Communications 16, 3952 (2025)
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)
