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4573
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Hellman Fellow

Overview

Britt Koskella is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a notable focus on Plant Science, Ecology, Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Microbiology.

The scientist's work covers several main topics including bacteriophages and microbial interactions, plant virus research studies, plant-microbe interactions and immunity, gut microbiota and health, evolution and genetic dynamics, plant parasitism and resistance, and legume nitrogen fixing symbiosis.

Among their recent published papers are the following:

  • Priority effects in microbiome assembly, 2021, Nature Reviews Microbiology
  • High-throughput mapping of the phage resistance landscape in E. coli, 2020, PLoS Biology
  • The study of host-microbiome (co)evolution across levels of selection, 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • The phyllosphere, 2020, Current Biology
  • Plant neighborhood shapes diversity and reduces interspecific variation of the phyllosphere microbiome, 2022, The ISME Journal

Frequent collaborators in their publications include:

  • Reena Debray
  • C. Jessica E. Metcalf
  • Dominique Holtappels
  • Elijah C. Mehlferber
  • Kyle Meyer

The most common venues for their research publications are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Current Biology
  • Nature Reviews Microbiology
  • The ISME Journal
  • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Britt Koskella has received the Hellman Fellow award in 2019.

Best Publications

  • Scientists' Warning to Humanity: Microorganisms and Climate Change

    Ricardo Cavicchioli;William J. Ripple;Kenneth N. Timmis;Farooq Azam

  • Bacteria–phage coevolution as a driver of ecological and evolutionary processes in microbial communities

    Britt Koskella;Michael A. Brockhurst

  • Mutation Pressure and the Evolution of Organelle Genomic Architecture

    Michael Lynch;Britt Koskella;Sarah Schaack

  • Priority effects in microbiome assembly.

    Reena Debray;Robin A Herbert;Robin A Herbert;Alexander L Jaffe;Alexander Crits-Christoph

  • Understanding bacteriophage specificity in natural microbial communities.

    Britt Koskella;Sean Meaden

  • A synthesis of experimental work on parasite local adaptation

    Megan A. Greischar;Britt Koskella

  • The Pathobiome in Animal and Plant Diseases

    David Bass;David Bass;David Bass;Grant D. Stentiford;Grant D. Stentiford;Han Ching Wang;Britt Koskella

  • The microbiome beyond the horizon of ecological and evolutionary theory.

    Britt Koskella;Lindsay J. Hall;C. Jessica E. Metcalf

  • Experimental coevolution of species interactions

    Michael A. Brockhurst;Britt Koskella

  • Successive passaging of a plant-associated microbiome reveals robust habitat and host genotype-dependent selection.

    Norma M. Morella;Francis Cheng-Hsuan Weng;Pierre M. Joubert;C. Jessica E. Metcalf

  • Heavy metal pollution and co-selection for antibiotic resistance: A microbial palaeontology approach.

    A.W. Dickinson;A.W. Dickinson;A. Power;M.G. Hansen;K.K. Brandt

  • Evidence for Negative Frequency-Dependent Selection During Experimental Coevolution of a Freshwater Snail and a Sterilizing Trematode

    Britt Koskella;Curtis M. Lively

  • Understanding the ecology and evolution of host–parasite interactions across scales

    Rachel M. Penczykowski;Anna‐Liisa Laine;Britt Koskella;Britt Koskella

  • Bacteria-phage interactions in natural environments.

    Samuel L Díaz-Muñoz;Britt Koskella

  • Thirteen Challenges in modelling plant diseases

    Nik J. Cunniffe;Britt Koskella;C. Jessica E. Metcalf;Stephen Parnell

  • High-throughput mapping of the phage resistance landscape in E. coli.

    Vivek K. Mutalik;Benjamin A. Adler;Harneet S. Rishi;Denish Piya

  • THE ORIGIN OF SPECIFICITY BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION: EVOLVED AND NONHOST RESISTANCE IN HOST–PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS

    Janis Antonovics;Mike Boots;Dieter Ebert;Britt Koskella

  • The costs of evolving resistance in heterogeneous parasite environments

    Britt Koskella;Britt Koskella;Derek M. Lin;Angus Buckling;Angus Buckling;John N. Thompson

  • Local Biotic Environment Shapes the Spatial Scale of Bacteriophage Adaptation to Bacteria

    Britt Koskella;John N. Thompson;Gail M. Preston;Angus Buckling

  • The study of host-microbiome (co)evolution across levels of selection.

    Britt Koskella;Joy Bergelson

  • Phage-Mediated Selection on Microbiota of a Long-Lived Host

    Britt Koskella

  • High-throughput mapping of the phage resistance landscape in E. coli

    Vivek K. Mutalik;Benjamin A. Adler;Harneet S. Rishi;Denish Piya

Frequent Co-Authors

C. Jessica E. Metcalf
C. Jessica E. Metcalf Princeton University
Angus Buckling
Angus Buckling University of Exeter
Curtis M. Lively
Curtis M. Lively Indiana University
Mike Boots
Mike Boots University of California, Berkeley
Michael A. Brockhurst
Michael A. Brockhurst University of Manchester
David Bass
David Bass Natural History Museum
Adam P. Arkin
Adam P. Arkin Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Kristian K. Brandt
Kristian K. Brandt University of Copenhagen
Nicole S. Webster
Nicole S. Webster University of Queensland
Richard Calendar
Richard Calendar University of California, Berkeley

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