Martina Dal Bello receives Human Frontier Science Program award for international collaboration
Dal Bello arrived at Yale in 2024.
Congratulations to Martina Dal Bello, faculty member at the Yale Microbial Sciences Institute, who has received a prestigious Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) award for a collaborative microbial science project connecting scholars in three countries.
Dal Bello is an Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. She arrived at Yale in 2024.
The project - Decoding the evolution of anticipation and decision making in uncertain environments – connects Dal Bello with Jacopo Grilli of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Itlay, and Shawn McGlynn from the Institute of Science, Tokyo, Japan.
The primary interest of the Dal Bello lab is to learn how bacteria respond to and modify their environment, and how this, in turn, shapes species interactions, assembly processes, and the structure of microbial communities.
Based at Yale’s West Campus, her lab leverages bench experiments, data from natural communities, and theory, integrating ideas and tools from community ecology, microbial physiology, and systems biology.
Dal Bello completed a PhD at the University of Pisa and a postdoc at MIT. At Yale, she aims to build an ecological toolbox for the management and manipulation of microbiomes.
The HFSP promotes international collaboration in basic research focused on the elucidation of the sophisticated and complex mechanisms of living organisms.
Three-year Human Frontier Science Program Research Grants are awarded to teams of scientists who embark upon a new collaborative projects that leverage expertise that is different from their own to create novel approaches to problems in fundamental biology.