Nutrient availability is a key control on the growth and activity of microbes. Usually nutrient limitations are considered individually, but this ignores the reality of nature: often, many nutrients are simultaneously deplete.
Our understanding of the phenomenon of microbial growth when multiple nutrients are dilute is limited by lack of a unifed framework. Together with our collaborators at Rutgers University and ETH Zurich, we are working to fill that gap.
Further work will focus on the molecular basis and biogeochemical implications of nutrient colimitation.
The project uses mathematical modelling, concepts in theoretical biology, physiology and molecular analysis.
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