New paper on antibiotic resistance and pathoadaptation
We are very happy to share the first paper from our new lab. In this perspective article, led by the postdoc Juan Hernandez Bird, we explore key concepts in antibiotic resistance and pathoadaptation, focusing on how to balance complexity and control when using experimental evolution systems to study these phenomena. We discuss different experimental evolution…
Keep readingAnu Sharma joins us as a Postdoc
Anu is “a-new” postdoctoral researcher joining our lab. She received her B.S. in Zoology and M.S. in Biotechnology in India, followed by a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. As a graduate student in the Sanfilippo lab, she used microfluidics to understand how physical and chemical factors combine to impact bacterial behavior…
Keep readingJuan Hernandez Bird joins us as a Postdoc
Juan joins us as our 1st postdoc (or as postdoc number Juan, as he likes to say ;] ) Originally from Puerto Rico, Juan moved to the United States to pursue a bachelor’s degree in Microbiology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. As an undergraduate researcher in James Holden’s lab, he studied microbes collected from…
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