While the fungus Candida albicans is a common colonizer of healthy humans, it is also
responsible for mucosal infections and severe invasive disease. Understanding the …

Just as mammals have coevolved with the intestinal bacterial communities that are part of
the microbiota, intestinal helminths represent an important selective force on their …

Microbial communities often display region-specific properties, which give rise to complex
interactions and emergent behaviors that are critical to the homeostasis and stress response …

Laboratory models are critical to basic and translational microbiology research. Models
serve multiple purposes, from providing tractable systems to study cell biology to allowing …

Microbial species colonizing host ecosystems in health or disease rarely do so alone.
Organisms conglomerate into dynamic heterotypic communities or biofilms in which …

Cells must access resources to survive, and the anatomy of multicellular structures
influences this access. In diverse multicellular eukaryotes, resources are provided by …

The oral microbiota is enormously diverse, with over 700 microbial species identified across
individuals that play a vital role in the health of our mouth and our overall well-being. In …

The nature of microorganisms and the efficiency of antimicrobials have witnessed a huge co-
dependent change in their dynamics over the last few decades. On the other side, metals …

Biofilms are complex microbial communities that have a critical function in many natural
ecosystems, industrial settings as well as in recurrent and chronic infections. Biofilms are …

The biofilm state is the preferred lifestyle of bacteria in nature. Within a biofilm, the resident
bacteria are protected from environmental stresses, antibiotics and other antimicrobials …