Past Fellows
Inaugural Microbiome Initiative Fellows: 2020-2021
Alex Golden
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Mentors: Kirill Korolev and Pankaj Mehta
Research interests: Understanding how coarse-grained physical phenomena constrain the behavior and population structure of microbial communities
Chiara Ricci-Tam
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Mentors: Allison Sgro and Mo Khalil
Research Interests: how the social microbe Dictyostelium discoideum form robust spatial patterns despite order of magnitude variation in microbe numbers (microbe-microbe interactions) and environmental conditions (microbe-environment interactions), then apply these fundamental principles of microbial community dynamics to engineering synthetic communities based on these features in the non-social microbe Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Zoey Werbin
Pre-Doctoral Fellow
Mentors: Jenny Bhagnatar, Daniel Segrè, Kirill Korolev
Research interests: Soil microbial interactions, biogeochemistry, ecological forecasting