Duhita and Rachana attended the 2025 Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) and Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Microbial Population Biology in Andover, NH, USA. Duhita presented her work on “Cross-Feeding Interactions Alter Mutant Fitness in Communities of E. coli” (joint work with current lab member Atharv and former members Tomas and Anastasia) with a talk at GRS and as a poster at GRC. She was also elected as GRS co-chair for 2027. Rachana presented a poster titled “Rachana presented a poster on “How does nutrient availability affect bacterial susceptibility to antibiotics?” (joint work with our collaborator Noelle Held and former lab member Joelle Reich).