Welcome to the dal bello lab at Yale!
Our lab studies how microbes respond to and modify their environment, and how this, in turn, shapes species interactions, assembly processes, and the function of microbial communities. Our approach leverages laboratory experiments, data from natural communities, and theory, integrating ideas and tools from community ecology, microbial physiology, and systems biology. By linking metabolic traits to community properties, we aim at uncovering general principles for how microbial communities respond to environmental change.
This is a space for free inquiry, pluralism, and growth.
News
April 2025
We got out first grant! HFSP is funding research in the lab to decode the evolution of anticipation and decision making in uncertain environments. See this page for open positions!
Martina is giving a talk at the UConn EEB Departmental Seminar
March 2025
Martina is giving a talk at APS 2025
February 2025
Martina is giving a talk at the Princeton/CUNY/Yale Biophysics symposium
Martina is visiting UMich EEB to give a talk in their seminar series
January 2025
Cecilia joins the lab for a rotation!
Martina is giving a talk at the Stochastic Physics in Biology GRC
Spring Semester 2025
Martina is teaching Soft Skills Development E&EB 724
December 2024
Farah. joins the lab as a postdoc
Martina has been featured in YaleNews.
November 2024
Martina gives the keynote talk at the MSI retreat.
Fall Semester 2024
Martina is teaching Microbial Ecology E&EB 340
August 2024
Applications to the KITP Program Coarse-graining Microbial Ecology: from Genes to Physiological Strategies to Communities across Environments (May 18 - June 18 2026) are now open. Martina is one of the organizers.
Martina is at ESA presenting her work on temperature and the structure of the ocean microbiome.
July 2024
The lab officially opens its doors at Yale EEB and MSI!
May 2024
Martina is in Chicago at the workshop Ecological dynamics of microbial communities: new approaches
March 2024
Martina is speaking at the Population Dynamics Virtual Seminars. Here is the video of the talk!
Martina is giving a talk at the workshop Reimagining Ocean Ecology