Gralka lab

Thanks to recent advances in sequencing technologies, we have a good understanding of the composition of microbial communities from all corners of the world, including animal guts, oceans, or soils. However, we often do not know what individual community members do, how they interact with each other, and how these interactions drive the community dynamics and function, which limits our ability to predict and alter those dynamics. We tackle this problem by combining lab experiments with ecological modeling to uncover principles of how microbes work together to drive biogeochemical cycles.

We are embedded in the Systems Biology group at the A-LIFE department at VU Amsterdam. Click the links to learn more about the team, our current research and publications.