Research Summary

Andre is a computer scientist studying causality and new ways of thinking about epistasis. He did his masters at the 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.

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.

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.

Steven is interested in division of labour and metabolic cooperativity in microbial communities.

Jamila investigates how different ecological dynamics can be induced by 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.

Botond is an EPSRC student modelling evolution and division of labour within microbial communities.

Chi-chun (not depicted) works on fundamental problems in evolution using experimental microbial systems.

David designs robots and other equipment to make previously challenging experiments much easier.In his spare time, David enjoys homesteading and gigging.

Samantha is working with Chi-chun to study the evolutionary flexibility of genes with different levels of connectivity. 

Andy is working on our liquid handling robot.

Xiaoheng is working on our liquid handling robot.

Sun is a trainee experimentalist working with Sonal on genomic robustness in yeast.