Reena Debray
Group leader
Department of Primate Behavior and Evolution
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
phone: +49 (0) 341 3550 236
e-mail:
reena_debray@[>>> Please remove the text! <<<]eva.mpg.de
Background
I am broadly interested in microbiome ecology and evolution and have studied microbiomes in a variety of contexts, including agricultural settings and the model lab organism C. elegans. I received my Ph.D. in Integrative Biology from the University of California, Berkeley and then moved to the MPI-EVA for a postdoc. In 2023, I was awarded a Minerva Research Group by the Max Planck Society.
Selected publications
Debray, R., Dickson, C.C., Webb, S.E., Archie, E.A., Tung, Jenny. 2024. When is microbial strain sharing evidence for transmission? bioRxiv: 10.1101/2024.07.18.604082.
Debray R., Tung J., Archie E.A. 2024. Ecology and evolution of the social microbiome. Annual Reviews in Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, Vol 55:89-114.
Marinos, G., Hamerich, I.K., Debray, R., Obeng, N., Petersen, C., Taubenheim, J., Zimmermann, J., Blackburn, D., Samuel, B.S., Dierking, K., Franke, A., Laudes, M., Waschina, S., Schulenburg, H., Kaleta, C. 2024. Metabolic model predictions enables targeted microbiome manipulation through precision prebiotics. Microbiology Spectrum: e01144-23.
Debray, R., Conover, A., Dewald-Wang, E.A., Zhang, X., Koskella, B. 2023. Within-host adaptation alters priority effects within the phyllosphere microbiome. Nature Ecology and Evolution 7, 725-731.
Debray, R., Herbert, R., Jaffe, A.L., Crits-Christoph, A., Power, M.E., Koskella, B. 2021. Priority effects in microbiome assembly. Nature Reviews Microbiology 20, 109-121.