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Koskella Lab at UC Berkeley – Understanding (co)evolution of hosts and their symbionts in the lab and in the field

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Understanding (co)evolution of hosts and their symbionts in the lab and in the field

The future of human health and sustainable agriculture rests on our ability to view microbial evolution as part of the solution rather than the problem. The Koskella lab takes on this challenge by combining discovery-based science on plant microbiomes and viromes with hypothesis-driven experimentation. Our research examines host-microbe and microbe-microbe interactions by first identifying patterns in nature and then, in line with current theory where available, generating predictions to explicitly test in the laboratory using a combination of field work, experimental evolution, microbial ecol

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