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Synthetic ecology of microbiomes and beyond:
Navigating microbial community-function landscape based on beyond-pairwise interactions
Astract:
Microbes often exist as diverse, interacting communities known as microbiomes, which can exhibit unique and robust functionalities not observed in individual microbial species. Although harnessing microbiome functions is desirable in various fields such as agriculture, bioproduction, and human healthcare, progress is hindered by our limited understanding of which compositional patterns lead to specific functional outcomes. To address this challenge, Dr. Ishizawa and colleagues are developing a simple modeling framework to explain microbial community-level functions based on the information of microbial interspecies interactions. In this talk, he will discuss how to navigate the immense complexity of microbial interactions and design functional microbiomes for biotechnological applications.
Personal Profile:
Dr. Hidehiro Ishizawa currently works as an assistant professor at the School of Engineering, University of Hyogo, Japan. He received his PhD degree in Engineering from Osaka University in 2020. After obtaining his doctorate, Dr. Ishizawa served as a JSPS postdoctoral fellow at Shizuoka University before joining his current position. His research focus on establishing a practical framework to predict, explain, and understand microbial community assembly and functions. He utilizes several model systems including plant-microbiome symbiosis and microbial communities working on bioremediation.
