However, the
quantitative response to freshwater inputs varies widely among models (Stouffer et al., 2006), which led the CMIP and Paleoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project (PMIP) panels to design and support a set of
coordinated experiments to
study this issue (http://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/~kd/CMIP.html and http://www.pmip2.cnrs-gif.fr/pmip2/design/experiments/waterhosing.shtml).
Terry Hwa's lab has been working on
quantitative descriptions of how genes, proteins and chemicals work together to
coordinate the physiological responses of the gut bacterium E. coli, and is more recently
studying the interaction of gut microbes with each other and with the host environments.