Liberal Arts and Sciences
Şimşek Lab
Led by Emrah Şimşek · Physics
What we study
The lab studies how bacteria respond to environmental changes like nutrients, antibiotics, and mobility. They use experiments, physical models, and machine learning to understand bacterial behavior.
What working here is like
- Wet lab
- Computational
- Bacteria & microbes
- Coding helps
- Project
- 1
- Papers
- 5
Current projects
Quantitative systems microbiology of environmental stress and antibiotic resistance
Investigating how bacteria adapt to environmental changes using experiments and models.
Summaries are written by AI in plain language from public symposium abstracts and may be imperfect.
Recent papers, explained
- Spatial proximity dictates bacterial competition and expansion in microbial communities
2025 · Nature Communications
Finds that spatial proximity helps bacteria expand in antibiotic-treated communities.
- The collapse of cooperation during range expansion of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
2024 · Nature Microbiology
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- A ‘rich-get-richer’ mechanism drives patchy dynamics and resistance evolution in antibiotic-treated bacteria
2024 · Molecular Systems Biology
Shows how a 'rich-get-richer' mechanism drives patch formation in antibiotic-treated bacteria.
- Mapping single‐cell responses to population‐level dynamics during antibiotic treatment
2023 · Molecular Systems Biology
Links single-cell filamentation to population-level responses in antibiotic-treated bacteria.
- Toward predictive engineering of gene circuits
2022 · Trends in biotechnology
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