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Name and position |
Project |
Next and current positions |
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Dhru Desai Undergraduate student (Biomedical Engineering) Rutgers University 06/2023–08/2024 |
Predicting the effect of amino acid cross-feeding on mutant fitness using metabolic models |
Undergraduate research in the lab of Jason Yang (Rutgers U.) |
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Shreya Bhardwaj Undergraduate student (Genetics) Rutgers University 06/2024–08/2024 |
Antibiotic sensitivity under different nutrient limitation conditions |
Transferred to Cornell University, undergraduate research in the lab of Charles Aquadro (Cornell U.) |
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Justus Fink Ph.D. student ETH Zurich 05/2019–06/2023 Postdoctoral fellow Rutgers University 01/2024–07/2024 |
Microbial Growth as a Function of the Environment: Nutrient Limitation, Selection Pressures and Community Interaction |
HFSP postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Victoria Orphan (Caltech) |
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Kevin Thomas Undergraduate student (Molecular Biology and Biochemistry) Rutgers University 01/2023–05/2023 |
Transposon-insertion mutant libraries |
Continued undergraduate studies at Rutgers University |
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Tomas Lio Grudny Research assistant ETH Zurich 03/2022–05/2023 |
Transposon-insertion mutant libraries and testing effects of cross-feeding on mutations; effect of protein chaperones on evolution under Muller's ratchet |
Ph.D. student (Program in Computational and Systems Biology, MIT) in the lab of Debora Marks (Harvard Medical School) |
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Anastasia Dragan Research assistant ETH Zurich 10/2022–03/2023 |
Mutation effects under different limitation conditions; growth of auxotrophs under different environmental conditions | |
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Jakob Löffler MSc thesis student (Biology) ETH Zurich 12/2021–06/2022 |
Modeling mutation effects in cross-feeding microbial communities | |
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Aswin Krishna MSc rotation student (Biology) ETH Zurich 02/2021–09/2021 |
Empirical measurements and models of resource colimitation |
Next: MSc thesis student in the lab of Uwe Sauer (ETH Zurich) Current: Ph.D. student in the lab of Sonja Lehtinen (ETH Zurich/U. Lausanne) |
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Alexander Stein MSc rotation student (Physics) ETH Zurich 09/2019–01/2020 |
Inferring single-cell lag times from barcoded lineage tracking |
Next: MSc thesis student in the lab of Niko Beerenwinkel (ETH Zurich) Current: Ph.D. student and Marie Curie Fellow in the lab of Benjamin Werner (Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London), co-advised by Kateřina Staňková (TU Delft) |
