Michael Silverstein PhD Defense

My presentation for my PhD defense in Bioinformatics from Boston University, "Principles of Microbiome Structure and the implications for Climate Change Mitigation." Unfortunately, I did not record the live presentation, so this is a re-recording. You can learn more about myself and my research at https://michaelsilverstein.github.io/.

Sections
0:00 Introduction
3:16 Microbiome engineering process
5:17 Carbon use efficiency
9:35 Directed evolution
15:10 Divergence motivation
19:28 Divergence-complexity hypothesis
21:23 Divergence-complexity experiment
27:45 Consumer-resource model
34:45 Functional response motivation
37:42 Function response definition
40:35 Functional response analysis
44:36 Conclusion

Publications
Environmental microbiome engineering for the mitigation of climate change (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/f...)
Metabolic complexity drives divergence in microbial communities (https://www.nature.com/articles/s4155...)