Jonathan Tang
Undergraduate, UChicago
Jonathan is an undergraduate biology major collaborating with Mahmoud Yousef.
Vaibhhav Sinha
Post-doc, collaborating with Otto Cordero (MIT)
Vaibhhav is a theoretical biologist from NCBS Bangalore moving into experiment.
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.
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
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.
email: kiseoklee [at] uchicago.edu
Kyle Crocker
Post doc. Ph.D. Physics (Ohio State)
Zeqian Li
Graduate student. Physics UIUC
Zeqian is primarily a theorist and works on hot spring microbial communities and genome evolution.
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.
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.
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.
email: ld6 [at] illinois.edu
CONTACT
Gordon Center for Integrated Science
929 E. 57th St.
Chicago, IL 60637
seppe (dot) kuehn (at) gmail
twitter: @SeppeKuehnLab
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.
Ahmed Selim -- Graduate student with John Novembre (UChicago)
Kaumudi Prabhakara -- Post doc, Max Planck Instititute for Evolutionary Biology