Tag: news
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Duhita receives an award for her abstract at the annual RUMP retreat
Duhita received an award in the environmental microbiome category for her abstract on “The effect of cross-feeding interactions on mutant fitness in communities of E. coli” at this year’s annual retreat of the Rutgers University Microbiome Program. Congratulations, Duhita!
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New preprint from Aswin, Anastasia, and Michael on quantifying colimitation in microbes
With our collaborators Noelle Held and Donat Crippa and former lab members Aswin and Anastasia, Michael has posted a bioRxiv preprint titled “Nutrient colimitation is a quantitative, dynamic property of microbial populations.”
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Justus attends APS March Meeting
Justus attended the 2024 American Physical Society March Meeting in Minneapolis, MN, USA. He gave a talk titled “Quantifying microbial fitness under conceptual uncertainty” in the session on Evolutionary Dynamics.
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New preprint from Michael on concepts, causes, and consequences of microbial nutrient colimitation
With our collaborator Noelle Held, Michael has posted an EcoEvoRxiv preprint titled “Are microbes colimited by multiple resources?”
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Shivali joins the lab
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.
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Rachana joins the lab
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.
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Duhita joins the lab
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.
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Michael attends GRC on Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Michael attended the 2023 Gordon Research Conference on Applied and Environmental Microbiology in South Hadley, MA, USA. He presented a poster on “Are microbes colimited by multiple nutrients?”
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Dhru joins the lab
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.
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Michael gives seminars at TU Munich, University of Turku, and the University of Helsinki
Michael recently visited groups at the Technical University of Munich (Germany), the University of Turku (Finland), and the University of Helsinki (Finland) to present the lab’s work on the evolution of microbial population dynamics.