What We Study
How microbes respond to and modify their environment, and how this shapes species interactions, assembly processes, and the function of microbial communities.
Our Approach
Laboratory experiments, data from natural communities, and theory—integrating ideas from community ecology, microbial physiology, and systems biology.
This is a space for free inquiry, pluralism, and growth.
News
July 2026
- Martina is invited to give a talk at the GRC: Unifying Ecology Across Scales in Easton
- Our paper on community robustness in the face of salinity stress is out in Nature Microbiology! See MIT News for a commentary on the paper.
- Zahraa Al-Tameemi has officially joined the lab as a postdoc funded by HFSP. Welcome!
June 2026
- Martina is invited to give a talk at ICBP in Genova
May 2026
- Martina is spending 5 weeks at KITP for the program Coarse-graining Microbial Ecology. She is one of the organizers.
April 2026
- New preprint: Resource availability explains the diversity and structure of microbial communities
- Martina gives the YIBS Friday seminar