Mitri Sara
Assistant Professor in PTC
Faculty of Biology and Medicine
University of Lausanne
Switzerland
Biography
I am a currently an independent research fellow, working in the Department of Fundamental Microbiology at the University of Lausanne on the evolution of microbial communities.
Research Interest
In the lab, we are currently disentangling the interactions within a five-species microbial community designed to digest toxic chemicals, which are used in large manufacturing facilities and later disposed to landfill. Understanding this comparatively simple microbial ecosystem will aid in studying more complex microbial communities in the future, with many important applications such as the control of microbial infections in humans, the engineering of fertilisers to increase crop efficiency and the purification of contaminated soil.
Publications
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Mitri S, Foster KR. (2016). Pleiotropy and the low cost of individual traits promote cooperation. Evolution. 2016 Feb 1;70(2):488-94.
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Schluter J, Schoech AP, Foster KR, Mitri S. (2016). The evolution of quorum sensing as a mechanism to infer kinship. PLoS computational biology. 2016 Apr 27;12(4):e1004848.
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Niehus R, Picot A, Oliveira NM, Mitri S, Foster KR. (2017). The evolution of siderophore production as a competitive trait. Evolution. 2017 Apr 1.
