Hugo Sentenac: Biofilms, an underrated yet important way of life

In this new post, Hugo Sentenac, a PhD student at Labaoratoire Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Environnement (LEFE), Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, France, discusses his review paper: The significance of biofilms to human, animal, plant and ecosystem health—recently shortlisted for the 2022 Haldane Prize for Early Career Researchers. About the paper Microbes are everywhere: in soil, on rocks, in—and on—us, animals, plants, etc. All this is … Continue reading Hugo Sentenac: Biofilms, an underrated yet important way of life

Louise S. Nørgaard

Louise S. Nørgaard: Energetics, population density and pathogen performance

Louise S. Nørgaard is currently working as a Research Fellow at the centre of Geometric Biology at Monash University, Melbourne. In this Insight, she talks about her recent publication in Functional Ecology, ‘Energetic scaling across different host densities and its consequences for pathogen proliferation’. About the paper What’s your paper about? Using the freshwater Daphnia magna and its gram-positive bacteria Pasteuria ramosa, we explore how … Continue reading Louise S. Nørgaard: Energetics, population density and pathogen performance