7/1/26: Jing Yuan has joined the lab as a postdoc! She arrives from the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. Welcome, Jing!
6/1/26: Yihe Yu has joined the lab! Welcome, Yihe!
5/31/26: Madeline Lucas has graduated with her master's degree! She has joined the Vosshall lab at Rockefeller as a Research Assistant II. Congratulations, Madeline!
5/27/26: Clare was invited to speak at the KITP Program: Coarse-graining Microbial Ecology: from Genes to Physiological Strategies to Communities across Environments. You can watch her talk and others at the link.
3/20/26: Clare and Ave spoke at the APS Global Physics summit.
2/13/26: Clare was invited to speak at the McGill Bellairs Research Station in Barbados.
1/26/26: JaCynto Walker has joined us for a rotation-- welcome, Jay!
1/15/26: We are hiring another postdoc! Apply here.
11/10/25: Katharina Klein is joining us for a rotation-- welcome, Katharina!
9/8/25: Tahj Starr is joining us for a rotation-- welcome, Tahj!
9/1/25: Ave Bisesi has joined the lab as a postdoc! He arrives from his PhD with Will Harcombe at the University of Minnesota. Welcome, Ave!
3/10/25: We are hiring a postdoc! Please apply here! We are looking for someone interested in working with model systems of yeast and bacteria to uncover fundamental rules of microbial ecology and evolution.
11/22/24: Madeline has joined the lab!
9/1/24: Clare will speak at the Simons Foundation symposium, "Function of Evolving Systems," in New York, NY on December 2.
8/24: Clare taught a Stanford mini-course with Dr. Marianna Karageorgi and Jess Rhodes, "Whole-genome sequencing and applications: from yeast to fruit flies." Materials are available on github.
7/17/24: Clare published a paper with Shaili Mathur and Dr. Dmitri Petrov, "Environmental memory alters the fitness effects of adaptive mutations in fluctuating environments." This paper shows that fluctuating environments generate new and dramatic fitness behaviors due to widespread memory, where growth in one cycle of an environment affects fitness in the following cycle. Moreover, the results reveal a pattern: the greater a mutant’s variation in fitness across static environments, the more memory it exhibits in fluctuating environments. Environment-sensing mutations are a potential genetic mechanism for the memory, and a mathematical model shows that these mutations may alter pre-growth lag times.