Overview

I am interested in how systems of interacting parts (genes, organisms, environmental stresses,...) impact microbial behaviour. I try to marry microscope and optical instrument development with computation and synthetic biology to create tools to measure and control these systems in real-time. 

Qualifications

2005-2011     PhD (Systems Biology)       Harvard University

1994-1998     BA   (Mathematics)              University of California – Berkeley

Career

2019-present             Lecturer in Biosciences      University of Exeter

2012-2018                 Posdoctoral Fellow             IST Austria

Research group links

• Insect Evolutionary Ecology
• Microbial Evolutionary Ecology

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Research

Research interests

My research is oriented around measuring and manipulating interactions between genes and their cellular, genomic, environmental, and community contexts giving rise to microbial population behaviors such as antibiotic resistance. We incorporate diverse approaches in experimental evolution, mathematics, systems microbiology, engineering and instrumentation to understand how interactions between cells shape bacterial community behaviors, the value of environmental sensing and phenotypic variation in fluctuating environments, and how phenotypes broadly respond to mutation.

My research spans elements of microbial systems biology, evolutionary biology cybergenetics, antimicrobial resistance, and engineering.

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