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Professor Thomas Bell is a Professor of Microbial Ecology in the Department of Life Sciences at Silwood Park, part of the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Imperial College London. His research focuses on the ecology and evolution of microbial communities, which are among the most complex and diverse groups of organisms. Professor Bell employs a combination of laboratory-based experiments and field-based manipulations to study naturally occurring microbial communities. His areas of particular interest include biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in bacterial communities, the development and analysis of large-scale biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments, spatial patterns in bacterial communities, and predator-prey relationships among microbial groups, especially the impact of protist predators on bacterial prey.
Professor Bell''s research focuses on the ecology and evolution of microbial communities, which are among the most complex and diverse groups of organisms. His work combines laboratory-based experiments with field-based manipulations of naturally occurring communities. Areas of particular interest include biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in bacterial communities, including the development and analysis of large-scale biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments; spatial patterns in bacterial communities; and predator-prey relationships among microbial groups, particularly the effects of protist predators on bacterial prey.