Areas of Expertise
- Microbiome ecology
- Gut microbiome
- Apply principles from ecology and evolution to understand and manipulate microbial communities, with a focus on the human gut microbiome
Selected Publications
Estrela S, Long JZ & Huang KC (2025) How nutrient starvation impacts the gut microbiome Nature Microbiology doi.org/10.1038/s41564-025-02139-9
Aranda-Díaz A, Willis L, Nguyen TH, Ho P-Y, Vila J, Thomsen T, Chavez T, Yan R, Yu FB, Neff N, Sanchez A, Estrela S, and Huang KC (2025) Assembly of stool-derived bacterial communities follows “early-bird” resource utilization dynamics Cell Systems 16(4):101240
Chang C-Y, Bajic D, Vila JCC, Estrela S, Sanchez A (2023) Emergent coexistence in multispecies microbial communities Science 381, 343-348
Estrela S, Vila JCC, Lu N, Bajic D, Rebolleda-Gomez M, Chang CY, Goldford JE, Sanchez-Gorostiaga A, and Sanchez A (2021) Functional attractors in microbial community assembly Cell Systems 13(1):29-42.e7
Estrela S*, Sanchez-Gorostiaga A*, Vila J* & Sanchez A (2021) Nutrient dominance governs the assembly of microbial communities in mixed nutrient environments eLife 10:e65948
Goldford J*, Lu N*, Bajic D, Estrela S, Tikhonov M, Sanchez-Gorostiaga A, Segre D, Mehta P, and Sanchez A (2018) Emergent simplicity in microbial community assembly Science 361:469-74
Estrela S and Brown SP (2018) Community interactions and spatial structure shape selection on antibiotic resistant lineages PLoS Computational Biology 14(6): e1006179.
Estrela S, Whiteley M, and Brown SP (2015) The demographic determinants of human microbiome health. Trends in Microbiology 23(3): 134-141
All Publications
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