Rudy Mendez Reina

Graduate student. Biophysics UC

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

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rmmendezreina[at]uchicago.edu

Chin Yi Tan

Graduate student. Physics UC

Chin Yi is a physicist who is quantifying metabolite dynamics in microbial communities

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

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.

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email: khp1 [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