MicrobeRaman: a new repository for Raman spectroscopy data

Excited to annouce the publication of a correspondance in Nature Microbiology spear-headed by Dr Kang Soo Lee within the StockerLab at ETH Zurich. Raman microscopy is an advanced spectroscopic method which allows us to use the scattering of light to measure a “chemical fingerprint” of a sample, and has become an established tool for the…

Preprint: How viral infection alters microbial behaviour in the oceans

Excited to share the next installment from my time at Tufts University – our study of how viral infection alters bacterial foraging in the oceans, now live on Biorxiv! In this work, we investigated how viral infection of the cyanobacteria Synechococcus – one of the most abundant marine microorganisms and contributes to ~25% of our…

A new technology for rapidly screening bacterial chemotaxis

The paper mill keeps churning, excited to announce the second publication from my time at Tufts University with Prof. Jeffrey Guasto in eLife! This was work led by Michael Stehnach, a PhD student at the time at Tufts University, and now a postdoc at Brandeis University. Many microbes are capable of exploring their environment by…

From many to few: how modal analysis benefits active turbulence

Delighted to announce the publication of the first of our works from my time at Tufts University with Prof. Jeffrey Guasto in Physical Review Fluids! This work was driven by Olivia G. Martin, an exceptional undergraduate who joined our lab for their senior thesis. I’m particularly proud that this work has been highlighted as an…

Two new papers to Biorxiv!

Excited to say that two of my papers from my PhD have been accepted onto Biorxiv and are now publicly available! The first paper is a long-standing project where we, for the first time, characterise the swimming behaviour and light-dependent motion of the most globally prominent member of the phytoplankton community – Micromonas! The second…