Current lab members
Sergey Kryazhimskiy
Assistant Professor
PhD
Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University
Evolution by natural selection is a fundamental property of life. I want to understand, predict and control how microbes evolve and adapt to their environment.
Sandeep Venkataram
Postdoc
PhD
Ecology and Evolution, Stanford University
I am interested in how biotic interactions in microbial communities affect adaption. I currently study a simple community that consists of yeast S.cerevisiae and alga C.reinhardtii. I observe how these two species are adapting to living with each other.
Alena Martsul
PhD student
MSc
Biotechnology, Belarusian State Technical University, Belarus
I measure how the effects of mutations on fitness depend on the genetic background and on the environment in yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Huanyu Kuo
PhD student
MSc
Physics, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
I am interested in population genetics and quantitative biology. My research question is: How does the proteome allocation changes in bacterium E.coli as it adapts?
Michael Overton
PhD student
MSc
California State Polytechnic University Pomona
I am interested in developing and testing models that predict the fitness effects of new mutations. I am also pursuing an improved lineage tracking system for long-term evolution experiments.
Sean Guy
Research assistant
MSc
Molecular Biology, University of California San Diego
I study how the presence of a gene-drive element in the genome affects mutation rates and long-term evolution in yeast S. cerevisiae.