Contributed Talk: Dynamics of algae-bacteria interactions in artificial plankton communities

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• Marco Mauri (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)
• Thursday 13 October 2022, 10:10-10:30
• Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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UMCW06 - Microbial communities: current approaches and open challenges

Dynamics of algae-bacteria interactions in artificial plankton communities Marine phytoplankton is composed of unicellular algae and their associated bacteria. These algal communities are highly variable in species composition, but their patterns tend to recur seasonally. This diversity suggests the existence of ecological niches for the associated bacteria. To clarify the role of the bacterial community on the phytoplankton, we co-cultured several bacterial species with microalgae. We found that the inhibitory or stimulatory function of a particular bacterium depends on both the co-cultured partner and on the different growth phases of the algal culture. Using a generalized Lotka-Volterra model, we were able to predict the behaviour of an artificial community composed of C. radiatus diatoms and four bacterial species, and demonstrate the importance of pairwise bacteria-algae interactions.  Our study supports the idea that interactions between bacteria and algae are highly species-specific and depend on algal fitness, bacterial metabolism, and community composition. This species specificity may underlie the high complexity of the multi-species plankton communities observed in nature. Yun Deng1, Marco Mauri1,3, Marine Vallet2, Mona Staudinger1, Rosalind J. Allen1,3, Georg Pohnert1,2 – 1 Friedrich Schiller University Jena; 2 Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology Jena; 3 University of Edinburgh

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