Ophelia Venturelli

Physics-constrained neural ordinary differential equation models to discover and predict microbial community dynamics Microbial communities play essential roles in shaping ecosystem functions and predictive modeling frameworks are crucial for understanding, controlling, and harnessing their properties. Competition an...

New Venturelli Lab preprint!
We develop physics-informed ML models to predict species and metabolite dynamics in microbial communities. By integrating biological knowledge, we outperform both standard ML & mechanistic models. Check out our preprint here! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Decoding the role of the arginine dihydrolase pathway in shaping human gut community assembly and health-relevant metabolites The arginine dihydrolase pathway (arc operon) provides a metabolic niche by transforming arginine into metabolic byproducts. We investigate the role o…

Excited to share our latest work studying and predicting the role of a key metabolic pathway in human gut microbiome assembly and its impact on health-relevant metabolites—powered by machine learning.
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