I’m very happy to announce that our work on paired bacterial interactions in pL-droplets was finally published in Nature Communications! The result of a collaborative effort with Isaline Lucille Guex, Helena Todorov, Jordan Vacheron, Clara Margot Heiman, and the Vorholt lab; but also the first milestone in our journey to better understand how consortia of bacteria assemble in fragmented micro-scaled environments (such as in the soil)!
Find the publication on the following link: https://lnkd.in/eVXAWafv
The image below illustrates one of the bacterial combinations tested in pL-droplets: two strains of Pseudomonas protegens - CHA0 (green) and Pf-5 (magenta) - after 15h of competitive growth for succinate in droplets. The infrequent production of tailocin particles by CHA0 leads to the selective lysis of Pf-5 cells in a small proportion of droplet habitats and to the localized dominance of CHA0 - an effect undetectable in standard batch liquid cultures!
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6moNeeded this info! Thanks for the answers Jonathan Hollin!!!!