William Harcombe
Office: 208 Ecology
Lab: 374 Gortner
harcombe AT umn DOT edu
twitter: @HarcombeLab
Postdoctoral Associates
Jeremy Chacón
374 Gortner
chaco001 AT umn DOT edu
The effects of spatial structure on microbial interactions using genome-scale metabolic models and high-throughput experiments.
Jonathan Martinson
374 Gortner
mart5885 AT umn DOT edu
Investigating how microbial interactions influence the composition of microbial communities, and the evolutionary response to perturbations such as antibiotics.
Graduate Students
Sarah Hammarlund
Ecology, Evolution and Behavior (EEB)
Gortner 374
hamma111 AT umn DOT edu
I’m studying how we can predict the composition and function of a three-species bacterial community from information about how species behave when alone and in pairs. I’m also interested in the evolution and maintenance of public good production.
Leno B. Smith Jr.
Ecology, Evolution and Behavior (EEB)
Gortner 374
smi00671 AT umn DOT edu
I’m studying the fitness consequences of the lysogenic cycle for phages, their hosts, and the greater microbial community.
Ave Bisesi
Ecology, Evolution and Behavior (EEB)
Gortner 374
bises004 AT umn DOT edu
I’m interested in the impacts of phage parasitism and spatial structure on the evolution of bacterial interactions.
Xianyi (Sen) Xiong
Gortner 374
Microbial Engineering (MicE)
xion1475 AT umn DOT edu
My research focuses on emergent behavior and system-level dynamics of bacterial communities.
Alumni
Dr. Brian Smith
Dr. Lisa Fazzino
Jeremy Anisman
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