In the media
Simple rules govern soil microbiome responses to environmental change (UChicago Biological Sciences News; 2025)
Want to find alien life? Look for patterns of energy (EarthSky.org)
How to (theoretically) spot an alien (WashU Ampersand; 2025)
Tikhonov wins NSF CAREER award (WashU Ampersand; 2024)
When predicting the function of microbial communities, simpler may be better (UChicago Biological Sciences News; 2023)
When more complex is simpler (WashU “The Source”; 2022)
Bacteria could learn to predict the future (WashU “The Source”; 2021)
Opinion: Microbiology Needs More Math (The Scientist Magazine; 2017)
Imagining a world without species (Harvard SEAS News; 2017)
Resource competition: When communities collide (eLife; 2016)
Cheers!
5/2025 - Fang defends her PhD, and accepts a job offer at Huawei. Congratulations, Dr. Yu!
4/2025 - Mateja is awarded the McDonnell Academy fellowship, and will join us in the fall.
4/2025 - Yunshi and Queenie win funding to do summer research with our group.
3/2025 - Mikhail is promoted with tenure.
1/2025 - Lucas is featured in the “department spotlight” newsletter for his work as the graduate Head Mentor.
7/2024 - Mikhail wins the NSF CAREER award.
3/2024 - Lucas is accepted into MBL Physiology course with full scholarship. 7 weeks of madness! Good luck!
9/2023 - Jake wins the prestigious Pioneer Postdoctoral Fellowship at UMichigan.
5/2023 - Jake becomes the group's first ever PhD graduate! Congratulations, Dr. Moran!
3/2022 - Devon accepts the graduate admissions offer from Yale Biophysics program. Congratulations!
1/2022 - Jake is selected as one of the speakers for Princeton’s “up-and-coming biophysicists” symposium.