Tag: postdoc
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New preprint from Justus and Michael on quantifying microbial fitness
What is the best way to quantify fitness in laboratory measurements of microbes? Justus and Michael have posted a bioRxiv preprint about this titled “Quantifying microbial fitness in high-throughput experiments.”
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Rachana attends GRC on Microbial Stress Response
Rachana attended the 2024 Gordon Research Conference on Microbial Stress Response in South Hadley, MA, USA. She presented a poster on “Limiting microbial growth: The interplay of antibiotic stress and nutrient colimitation.”
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Justus leaves the lab for his next position
After five outstanding years as a Ph.D. student and then a postdoc, Justus has left the QEM Lab to start his next position as an HFSP postdoctoral fellow at Caltech in the lab of Victoria Orphan. We wish him congratulations on all his accomplishments and best wishes for the next stage of his career!
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Duhita and Michael attend ASM Microbe
Duhita and Michael attended the 2024 American Society for Microbiology Microbe meeting in Atlanta, GA, USA. Duhita gave a talk on “The Effect of Cross Feeding Interactions on Mutant Fitness in Communities of E. coli“ (joint work with lab members Atharv and Tomas) in the session on Microbial Experimental Evolution, and Michael gave a talk…
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Justus receives postdoctoral fellowship from the Human Frontier Science Program
Justus Fink, a current postdoc and former graduate student in our lab, has been awarded one of 59 postdoctoral fellowships from the Human Frontier Science Program. HFSP fellowships are intended to support new, high-risk projects in the life sciences and to cultivate international collaborations; fellows must carry out this work with a mentor that they have not…
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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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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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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.