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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.