Paul B. Rainey
Max Planck Society
235 Papers
1.2K Citations
Paul B. Rainey is an academic researcher from Max Planck Society. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biology & Pseudomonas fluorescens. The author has an hindex of 70, co-authored 222 publications. Previous affiliations of Paul B. Rainey include Massey University & Mansfield University of Pennsylvania.
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Papers
•Journal Article
Challenges in microbial ecology: building predictive understanding of community function and dynamics
Stefanie Widder,Rosalind J. Allen,Thomas Pfeiffer,Thomas P. Curtis,Carsten Wiuf,William T. Sloan,Otto X. Cordero,Sam P. Brown,Babak Momeni,Wenying Shou,Helen Kettle,Harry J. Flint,Andreas F. Haas,B atrice Laroche,Jan-Ulrich Kreft,Paul B. Rainey,Shiri Freilich,Stefan Schuster,Kim Milferstedt,Jan Roelof van der Meer,Jef Huisman,Andrew Free,Cristian Picioreanu,Christopher Quince,Isaac Klapper,Simon Labarthe,Barth F. Smets,Harris H. Wang,Orkun S. Soyer,Tobias Grosskopf,Otto X. Cordero Sanchez +30 more
TL;DR: It is argued that addressing this challenge requires close coordination of experimental data collection and method development with mathematical model building, and that such integration is needed to achieve significant progress in understanding of MC dynamics and function.
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Big questions, small worlds: microbial model systems in ecology
Christine M. Jessup,Rees Kassen,Samantha E. Forde,Ben Kerr,Angus Buckling,Paul B. Rainey,Paul B. Rainey,Brendan J. M. Bohannan +7 more
TL;DR: Recent studies that use laboratory-based microbial model systems to address ecological questions have significantly advanced the authors' understanding of processes that have proven difficult to study in field systems, including the genetic and biochemical underpinnings of traits involved in ecological interactions, and the ecological differences driving evolutionary change.
Biofilm formation at the air-liquid interface by the Pseudomonas fluorescens SBW25 wrinkly spreader requires an acetylated form of cellulose.
TL;DR: Quantitative analyses of biofilm structure showed that acetylation of cellulose is important for effective colonization of the air–liquid interface: mutants identical to WS, but defective in enzymes required foracetylation produced biofilms with altered physical properties.
Genomic and genetic analyses of diversity and plant interactions of Pseudomonas fluorescens
Mark W. Silby,Ana Cerdeño-Tárraga,Georgios S. Vernikos,Stephen R. Giddens,Robert W. Jackson,Robert W. Jackson,Gail M. Preston,Xue-Xian Zhang,Christina D. Moon,Christina D. Moon,Stefanie M. Gehrig,Scott A. C. Godfrey,Scott A. C. Godfrey,Christopher Knight,Christopher Knight,Jacob G. Malone,Jacob G. Malone,Zena Robinson,Andrew J. Spiers,Andrew J. Spiers,Simon R. Harris,Gregory L. Challis,Alice M. Yaxley,David Harris,Kathy Seeger,Lee Murphy,Simon Rutter,Rob Squares,Michael A. Quail,Elizabeth Saunders,Konstantinos Mavromatis,Thomas Brettin,Stephen D. Bentley,Joanne Hothersall,Elton R. Stephens,Christopher M. Thomas,Julian Parkhill,Stuart B. Levy,Paul B. Rainey,Nicholas R. Thomson +39 more
TL;DR: A functional genomic in vivo expression technology (IVET) screen provided insight into genes used by P. fluorescens in its natural environment and an improved understanding of the ecological significance of diversity within this species.
Automated Reconstruction of Whole-Genome Phylogenies from Short-Sequence Reads
TL;DR: A new method is developed that combines alignments from mappings to multiple reference sequences and shows that this successfully removes biases from the reconstructed phylogenies, which fully automates phylogenetic reconstruction from raw sequencing reads.