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Daniel Padfield
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Microbial ecologist/carer. NERC Fellow at the University of Exeter in Penryn. I like warming up bacteria, open & reproducible science, making focaccia, and exercise.
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Here we characterise a stable 5-species community that we created by disassembling a start community of 46 isolates and seeing what could stick together at the end. We then experimentally checked that all species could coexist and found that the five species can be cultured together for >1 year!

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Crucially for evolutionary studies, the isolates have different colony morphologies so can be re-isolated to look at evolutionary and phenotypic changes which is neat. They vary in their species interactions and we have high quality reference genomes for each species.

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Daniel Padfield
@padpadpadpad.bsky.social
Microbial ecologist/carer. NERC Fellow at the University of Exeter in Penryn. I like warming up bacteria, open & reproducible science, making focaccia, and exercise.
234 followers366 following111 posts