Scientific Internship: Shedding light on fungal carbon transport from image data
Mycorrhizal Fungi are ubiquitous symbiotic soil organisms that are critical to the majority of terrestrial ecosystems. They form underground networks that account for 25-50 percentage of soil biomass worldwide and …
Scientific Internship: Criticality in the bacterial brain
Many biological systems, arguably even the human brain, are tuned at criticality, the tipping point between order and disorder. Recently, by measuring random (thermal) fluctuations in a protein signaling circuit …
Scientific Internship: Can bacteria learn by association?
Associative learning, the process by which an organism develops through experience a relationship between two environmental events, is a hallmark of animal behavior. It is well-established that diverse animals, from …
Postdoc: Biophysics of symbiotic networks and communities
Symbiotic partnerships can drive the evolution of remarkably complex social behaviors, even in simple organisms. Recent experiments provide evidence that symbiotic microbes demonstrate transport and trade behaviors reminiscent of human …
