Jonathan Tang

Undergraduate, UChicago

Jonathan is an undergraduate biology major collaborating with Mahmoud Yousef.

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Vaibhhav Sinha

Post-doc, collaborating with Otto Cordero (MIT)

Vaibhhav is a theoretical biologist from NCBS Bangalore moving into experiment. 

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vai.sinh [at] gmail.com

Rudy Mendez Reina

Graduate student. Biophysics UChicago.  Joint with Arvind Murugan.

Rudy is a biophysicist working on understanding community structure in time-varying environments.

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rmmendezreina[at]uchicago.edu

Mahmoud Yousef

MD/PhD student. U Chicago Medicine.  Joint with Arjun Raman.

Mahmoud is interested in the rational design of functional microbial consortia

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mahmoudyousef [at] uchicago.edu

Kiseok Lee

Graduate student. Ecology & Evolution UC

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

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email: kiseoklee [at] uchicago.edu

Kyle Crocker

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

Kyle is working on denitrifying bacterial communities

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email: crocker [at] uchicago.edu

Zeqian Li

Graduate student. Physics UIUC

Zeqian is primarily a theorist and works on hot spring microbial communities and genome evolution.

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email: zeqianli [at] uchicago.edu

Karna Gowda

Post doc. Ph.D. Applied Mathematics (Northwestern)

Karna studies how genomic structure determines metabolic function in bacterial communities.

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email: kgowda [at] uchicago.edu

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.

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email: cg8 [at] illinois.edu

Luis Miguel de Jesus Astacio

Graduate Student. Physics, UIUC.

Luis studies self sustaining closed microbial communities using theory and experiment.

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email: ld6 [at] illinois.edu