Kiseok Lee

Graduate student. Ecology & Evolution UC

Kiseok is a microbial ecologist working on design and control of complex microbial communities

Kyle Crocker

Post doc. Ph.D. Physics (Ohio State)

Kyle is working on denitrifying bacterial communities

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

PI

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.