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  • Microbiology
  • Environmental Science
  • Bioinformatics

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  • Microbial interactions are vital for ecosystems and human health.
  • Characterizing these interactions is challenging due to their complexity and context-dependency.
  • Environmental factors significantly influence microbial community dynamics.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a high-throughput and reproducible workflow for inferring microbial interactions.
  • To investigate how environmental chemical context alters microbial interactions in the lung microbiome.
  • To demonstrate the dynamic nature of microbial interactions.

Main Methods:

  • Integration of semi-automated image analysis with a colony stamping technique.
  • Development of a novel workflow for microbial interaction assays.
  • Application to bacterial species from the human lung microbiome.

Main Results:

  • The novel workflow significantly improved throughput and reproducibility of interaction assays.
  • The presence of benzo[a]pyrene altered the bacterial interaction network.
  • Demonstrated context-dependent microbial interactions within the lung microbiome.

Conclusions:

  • The developed workflow provides a robust method for studying microbial interactions.
  • Environmental chemicals, such as benzo[a]pyrene, dynamically modulate microbial interactions.
  • Microbial interactions are not static but responsive to their local chemical environment.