K. M. Wetmore

The paper shows that two-ecotype microbial communities can rediversify into two ecotypes after isolation, with similar patterns despite evolutionary time, but with differences in growth traits and transcriptional states.

The paper quantifies the adaptive potential of a bacterial community by measuring gene knockout fitness effects across different genetic backgrounds and ecological conditions.

This study uses RB-TnSeq to identify genetic requirements for magnetosome formation in Magnetospirillum magneticum AMB-1 under different growth conditions, revealing condition-specific gene functions.

The paper introduces BIMA, a method to analyze interspecific interactions in biofilm co-cultures by examining colony morphology, inhibition, invasion, and associated genes/metabolites.

This study characterizes the genetic essentiality and conditional phenotypes of Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough using a transposon mutant library under various metabolic and stress conditions.