Naomi Iris van den Berg

This study examines how bacterial proteomes and metabolomes change in response to interspecies interactions in gut microbiota co-cultures, revealing extensive molecular reorganization and emergent metabolic pathways.

The paper identifies key microbial interactions and metabolic pathways that confer resistance to C. difficile invasion using synthetic and clinical communities.

The paper shows how species in gut bacterial communities can survive or go extinct based on resource availability and metabolic interactions, identifying emergent survival and community-driven extinctions.