Research Summary
Lab Members
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Andre Ribeiro
Andre is a computer scientist studying causality and game theory. He did his masters at MIT, his PhD at Cambridge, and his 1st postdoc at Harvard. He is currently doing his 2nd postdoc at UCL.
He enjoys solving puzzles and playing the saxphone.
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Roman Zapien-Campos
Roman specialises in stochastic processes and wants to be trained as an experimentalist. He did his PhD at the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Biology.
He enjoys football and running, watching movies, building electronics, and cooking.
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Sonal
Sonal is interested in understanding how metabolic interactions in microbial communities are shaped by nutrient stress. Currently, she (willingly!) studies yeast populations interacting via stinky gases.
In her free time, she enjoys social dancing and hiking.
Consultant
Alex Yuan
Alex is currently developing statistical technique to infer relationships between ecosystem players purely based on observational time series. He did his PhD in the Shou lab.
Alex’s favourite terrible science joke: What’s a pirate’s favorite molecular biology tool? P-C-Arrrghh!
PhD student
Jamila Rowland-Chandler
Jamila investigates how different ecological dynamics can be induced through modifying the statistical properties of species interactions (e.g. through environmental manipulations). She previously studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge.
In her spare time, Jamila enjoys singing opera and playing D&D.
PhD student
Botond Major
Botond is an EPSRC student researching how epistasis can be predicted from minimal statistical models.
Research Assistant
Chi-chun Chen
Chi-chun (not depicted) works on fundamental problems in evolution using experimental microbial systems.
Resident Physicist
David Skelding
David designs robots and other equipment to make previously challenging experiments much easier.In his spare time, David enjoys homesteading and gigging.
Undergraduate student
Andy Sun
Andy is working on our liquid handling robot.
Undergraduate student
Xiaoheng Xu
Xiaoheng is working on our liquid handling robot.
Undergraduate student
Sun Yu
Sun is a trainee experimentalist working with Sonal on genomic robustness in yeast.