This research theme covers the large-scale ecological and computational side of our lab, focusing on how viruses behave across diverse microbial populations.

• Role in the Microbiome: Studying how phages shape microbial community structure, bacterial turnover, and ecosystem function

• Phage Dynamics: Tracking the temporal stability, turnover rates, and longitudinal behavior of phages in the human gut.

• AI-Powered Genomics: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models (LLMs), and advanced sequencing to decode highly complex metagenomic data and map phage populations at scale.