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SUMMARY:Plenary Lecture 3: Bacterial interactions in synthetic communities
  and in the wild - Bell\, T (Imperial College London)
DTSTART:20141126T144000Z
DTEND:20141126T151500Z
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CONTACT:Mustapha Amrani
DESCRIPTION:Predicting how bacterial community structure impacts ecosystem
  functioning requires quantifying how bacteria interact in natural environ
 ments. Our past research has used synthetic communities to characterise th
 e ecology and evolution of bacterial interactions. Results indicate that: 
 (i) interactions tend to be antagonistic\, (ii) community complexity molli
 fies antagonisms and favours positive interactions\, (iii) interactions ev
 olve rapidly with repercussions for ecosystem functioning\, and (iv) highe
 r-order interactions are relatively unimportant. However\, extrapolating t
 hese results to natural environments is challenging because of the complex
 ity these communities. I will discuss one potential solution\, which uses 
 common garden experiments to quantify interactions in complex communities 
 collected from nature. \n
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Newton Institute
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