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Kiran Raosaheb Patil Profile picture
Kiran Raosaheb Patil
@kiran_r_patil
Professor of Molecular Systems Biology, @MRC_TU @Cambridge_Uni MRC & ERC Investigator. Metabolic networks, Microbial communities, Evolution, Comp. modelling.
Feb 6, 2019 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
Our recent work uses #kefir – a natural milk fermenting community – to unravel mechanisms of coexistence in complex communities. Now on bioRxiv: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… (thread 1/5) We show how microbes poorly suited for milk surprisingly dominate the kefir community through metabolic cooperation. The kefir grain acts as a ‘basecamp’ for this complex community (30-50 species), from which they colonize the milk in a complex yet organized manner (thread 2/5)