Rogier Braakman

The paper uses proteomic data to show that microbial growth rates are constrained by size-related factors, with intermediate-sized cells having the highest growth potential.

This study quantifies amine- and alcohol-containing exometabolites from six phytoplankton species, revealing taxonomic variation in exometabolite composition and its impact on marine carbon cycling.

The paper develops a sparse tensor decomposition method to analyze metatranscriptomes and identifies gene expression changes in marine cyanobacteria under nitrogen and iron scarcity.

This study shows that Alteromonas macleodii MIT1002 selectively uptakes specific metabolites from Prochlorococcus, highlighting the importance of transporter specificity in microbial interactions with dissolved organic matter.

The paper identifies purine and pyrimidine cross-feeding networks among ocean microbes, revealing niche partitioning and potential cryptic nitrogen cycles driven by Prochlorococcus and SAR11 interactions.

The paper isolates and characterizes four new Prochlorococcus strains, revealing physiological and genomic features that expand the understanding of its macroevolutionary history.

The paper introduces Digital Microbes, an integrative framework for collaborative research on microbes, demonstrating its application with two case studies involving genomic and transcriptomic data.

The paper shows that Prochlorococcus develops a dark-tolerant phenotype when co-cultured with Alteromonas, involving metabolic coupling and shifts in gene expression.