Joe Larkin, PhD
Biography: Using microbial populations as a model, Larkin and his lab team seek to understand how new self-perpetuation strategies arise throughout the course of evolution. They study how the physical and chemical environment influences microbes and how microbes, in turn, engineer that very environment. More specifically, Larkin’s research examines how bacterial biofilms change local conditions […]
Zeba Wunderlich, PhD
Biography: Wunderlich and her lab team are studying gene regulatory networks, which are required for virtually every process in an animal from development to immunity. Specifically, they are exploring how a gene regulatory network’s tasks influence its architecture, robustness, and evolvability. To probe these questions, Wunderlich uses two model systems: the Drosophila early embryonic patterning […]