Zeqian Li
Graduate student. Physics UIUC
Zeqian is primarily a theorist and works on hot spring microbial communities and genome evolution.
Ahmed Selim
Graduate student. Biophysics, UC.
Ahmed is jointly supervised by Arvind Murugan and studies the evolution of bacterial metabolism.
Kaumudi Prabhakara
Post doc. Ph.D. Physics (Cornell)
Kaumudi studies self-assembly in phototroph-heterotroph microbial communities and closed ecosystems.
Karna Gowda
Post doc. Ph.D. Applied Mathematics (Northwestern)
Karna studies how genomic structure determines metabolic function in bacterial communities.
Seppe Kuehn
I want to understand how microbial communities function from an evolutionary perspective - and to use these insights to design, predict and control how communities behave.
Chandana Gopalakrishnappa
Graduate Student. Physics, UIUC.
Chandana studies phototroph-heterotroph interactions at scale using droplet microfluidics.
Luis Miguel de Jesus Astacio
Graduate Student. Physics, UIUC.
Luis studies self sustaining closed microbial communities using theory and experiment.
CONTACT
Gordon Center for Integrated Science
929 E. 57th St.
Chicago, IL 60637
seppe (dot) kuehn (at) gmail
Lab Alumni
Diane Schnitkey - Undergraduate, MCB -- Graduate school, UChicago Biophysics program.
Dan Grober - Undergraduate, Physics -- Graduate school, UCSD Physics.
Jason Merritt -- Graduate Student, Physics. PhD (2018) Insight Data Science Fellow. Data Scientist @ CVS
Avery (Harry) Mickalide -- Graduate Student, Physics. PhD (2019). Now at Base5 Genomics.
David T. Fraebel -- Graduate Student, Physics. PhD. (2019) -- Now at Fluid-Screen.
Derek Ping -- Undergraduate UIUC. Physics. Graduate student @ Purdue Physics.