Publications
Microbial biofilms: An ecological tale of Jekyll and Hyde. Karna Gowda and Seppe Kuehn. Dispatch for Current Biology. PDF.
Commentary on work by Wilbert and Newman. PDF.
Algae drive convergent bacterial community assembly when nutrients are scarce. Kaumudi H. Prabhakara and Seppe Kuehn. (In review) bioRxiv.
The community-function landscape of microbial consortia. Alvaro Sanchez, Djordje Bajic, Juan Diaz,-Colunga, Abigail Skwara and Seppe Kuehn. (Invited review, submitted). Cell Systems (2023) PDF.
Genomic structure predicts metabolite dynamics in microbial communities. Karna Gowda, Derek Ping, Madhav Mani, and Seppe Kuehn. Cell. 185. 1-17. 2022. PDF.
Dispatch in Current Biology: PDF.
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Commentary on Waddington's landscapes. Seppe Kuehn. Cell Systems. 2022. (pdf)
An ensemble approach to the structure-function problem in microbial communities. Chandana Gopalakrishnappa, Karna Gowda, Kaumudi Prabhakara and Seppe Kuehn. (Invited review) iScience, 2022
Closed microbial communities self-organize to persistently cycle carbon. Luis Miguel de Jesus Astacio*, Kaumudi H. Prabhakara*, Zeqian Li, Harry Mickalide, and Seppe Kuehn. PNAS. 2021. *Equal contribution.
Evolution of generalists by phenotypic plasticity. David T. Fraebel, Karna Gowda, Madhav Mani, and Seppe Kuehn. iScience. 23, 11, 101678. 2020.
Hitchhiking, collapse and contingency in phage infections of migrating bacterial populations. Derek Ping, Tong Wang, David Fraebel, Sergei Maslov, Kim Sneppen and Seppe Kuehn. The ISME Journal . (2020)
Higher order interaction inhibits bacterial invasion of a phototroph-predator microbial community. Harry Mickalide & Seppe Kuehn. Cell Systems. (9) 6. p. 521-533. (2019). PDF. Commentary from Alvaro Sanchez.
Massively Parallel Screening of Synthetic Microbial Communities. Jared Kehe, Anthony Kulesa, Anthony Ortiz, Cheri Ackerman, Gowtham Thakku, Daniel Sellers, Seppe Kuehn, Jeff Gore, Jonathan Friedman, Paul C. Blainey. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 116 (26) 12804-12809 (2019)
Biophysical constraints determine the selection of phenotypic fluctuations during directed evolution. Hong-yan Shih, Harry Mickalide, David T. Fraebel, Nigel Goldenfeld and Seppe Kuehn. Physical Biology, 15 (6) 2018.
Frequency and amplitude dependent population dynamics during cycles of feast and famine. Jason Merritt and Seppe Kuehn. Physical Review Letters. 121, 098101 (2018). arXiv.
Dynamic structure of locomotor behavior in walking fruit flies. Alexander Y. Katsov, Limor Freifeld, Mark Horowitz, Seppe Kuehn, and Thomas R. Clandinin. eLife. (2017)
Environment determines evolutionary trajectory in a constrained phenotypic space. David Fraebel, Harry Mickalide, Diane Schnitkey, Jason Merritt, Thomas E. Kuhlman, and Seppe Kuehn. eLife. 2017;10.7554/eLife.24669
Quantitative high-throughput population dynamics in continuous-culture by automated microscopy. Jason Merritt and Seppe Kuehn. Scientific Reports. 6, 33173. (2016).
When communities collide. Jason Merritt and Seppe Kuehn. eLife 2016;5:e18753
Postdoc
Strongly deterministic population dynamics in closed microbial communities. Zak Frentz*, Seppe Kuehn* and Stanislas Leibler. Physical Review X 5, 041014 (2015)
Behavioral diversity in microbes and low dimensional phenotypic spaces. David Jordan*, Seppe Kuehn*, Eleni Ketifori and Stanislas Leibler. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 110 (34) 14018-14023 (2013).
Microbial population dynamics by digital in-line holographic microscopy.
Zak Frentz*, Seppe Kuehn*, Doeke Hekstra, and Stanislas Leibler, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 81, 084301 (2010).
Ph.D.
Quantifying Electric Field Gradient Fluctuations over Polymers Using Ultrasensitive Cantilevers. Showkat M. Yazdanian, Nikolas Hoepker, Seppe Kuehn, Roger F. Loring and John A. Marohn. Nano Lett. 9 (6) 2273–2279 (2009).
Advances in Mechanical Detection of Magnetic Resonance. Seppe Kuehn, Steven A. Hickman, and John A. Marohn. J. Chem. Phys. 128 (5) 052208 (2008).
Dielectric Fluctuations and the Origins of Noncontact Friction. Seppe Kuehn, Roger F. Loring, and John A. Marohn, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 156103 (2006).
Noncontact Dielectric Friction. Seppe Kuehn, John A. Marohn, and Roger F. Loring, J. Phys. Chem. B Letters. 110 (30) 14525-14528 (2006).
Force-gradient detected nuclear magnetic resonance. Sean R. Garner, Seppe Kuehn, Jahan M. Dawlaty, Neil E. Jenkins, and John A. Marohn, Appl. Phys. Lett. 84, 5091 (2004).
Batch fabrication and characterization of ultrasensitive cantilevers. Neil E. Jenkins, Lauren P. DeFlores, Jack Allen, Tse Nga Ng, Sean R. Garner, Seppe Kuehn, Jahan M. Dawlaty and John A. Marohn. J. Vac. Sci. Tech. B. (22), 909 (2004).
The direct production of CO(v=1-9) in the reaction of O3P with the ethyl radical<br>Jonathan P. Reid.,Timothy P. Marcy, Seppe Kuehn, and Stephen R. Leone. J. Chem. Phys. (113) (11) 4572-4580 (2000).