Shivali Vanodia has joined the lab as an undergraduate research student. She will be studying the effects of different environments on the distributions of fitness effects in bacteria.

Rachana Rao Battaje has joined the lab as a postdoctoral fellow. She will be studying the effect of antibiotics on bacterial growth under different environmental conditions.

Duhita Sant has joined the lab as a postdoctoral fellow. She will be studying the effect of cross-feeding on mutation effects, especially as mediated by spatial structure, in laboratory systems.

Dhru Desai has joined the lab as an undergraduate research student. He will be studying the effects of mutations under different nutrient (especially cross-feeding) environments using metabolic models.

Atharv Jayprakash and Kevin Thomas have joined the lab as undergraduate research students. They will both be exploring experiments using transposon-insertion mutant libraries to test the effect of cross-feeding on mutations.

Anastasia joined the group as a research assistant to work on transposon-insertion libraries and environmental effects on mutations.

Tomas joined the group as a research assistant to work on transposon-insertion libraries and the effects of cross-feeding on mutations. He previously completed his master’s in Food Science and Technology at the University of Copenhagen and his bachelor’s in Dietetics and Nutrition at Florida International University.