Microbial ecosytems and interactions
Dynamic diatom-bacteria consortia in synthetic plankton communities
Y. Deng, M. Mauri, M. Vallet, M. Staudinger, R. J. Allen and G. Pohnert
Appl. Env. Microbiol. (2022)
Resource spectrum engineering by specialist species can shift the specialist-generalist balance
C. G. Mills, R. J. Allen* and R. A. Blythe*
Theoretical Ecology 1-15 (2019)
Bacterial growth: a statistical physicist's guide
R. J. Allen and B. Waclaw
Reports on Progress in Physics 82, 016601 (2019)
Oxic-anoxic regime shifts induced by biogeochemical feedbacks in microbial communities
T. Bush, M. Diao, R. J. Allen, R. Sinnige, G. Muyzer and J. Huisman
Nature Communications 8, 789 (2017)
E. Pagaling, K. Vassileva, C. G. Mills, T. Bush, R. A. Blythe, J. Schwarz-Linek, F. Strathdee, R. J. Allen and A. Free
Environmental Microbiology 19: 3374–3386 (2017)
Resource spectrum engineering by specialist species can strongly disfavour generalists
C. G. Mills, R. J. Allen and R. A. Blythe (submitted)
- S. Widder, R. J. Allen et al.
ISME Journal 10, 2557-2568 (2016)
- This review article results from a 4-month programme "Understanding Microbial Communities" at the Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge University, which I co-organised in August-December 2014.
Redox regime shifts in microbially-mediated biogeochemical cycles
- T. Bush, T. B. Butler, A. Free and R. J. Allen
Biogeosciences 12, 3717-3724 (2015)
Competition for space during bacterial colonisation of a surface
- D. P. Lloyd and R. J. Allen
J. R. Soc. Interface 12, 20150608 (2015)
Selection history affects the predictability of microbial ecosystem development
- E. Pagaling, F. Strathdee, B. Spears, M. E. Cates, R. J. Allen* and A. Free*
ISME J. 8, 19-30 (2013) (*=equal contribution)
- B. S. Khatri, A. Free and R. J. Allen
J. Theor. Biol. 314, 120-129 (2012)
01/11/2022
A warm welcome to our new group assistant Mr Moritz Wiegand!
30/10/2022
Congratulations to Nia Verdon who has submitted her PhD thesis!
15/10/2022
We are advertising an experimental postdoc position on biophysics of microbial aggregation in the context of the human gut microbiome. Please publicise it! Deadline is 22nd November.
01/10/2022
Check out our student Patrick Sinclair's paper in Physical Review Letters presenting a model for stochastic initiation of bacterial biofilms - and a commentary on it in Nature Reviews Physics.
30/09/2022
Congratulations to Patrick Sinclair who has successfully defended his PhD thesis!