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Microbial
​Ecology

Our main goal is to understand how microbial communities work: How do bacteria respond to environmental changes? How do they interact with other bacteria? Can we predict properties and functions that emerge in self-organising microbial communities?

We focus on bacteria that compose the human microbiome in order to understand their role in shaping the health and diseases of our species. We are interested in building a mechanistic understanding of how pathogenic strains are able to establish, grow, and survive in our bodies.

To achieve this, we combine theory, stochastic simulations, and experiments. In particular, we perform microfluidic experiments that allow the quantification of individual cell properties over space and time. We use machine learning algorithms to segment and track each individual cell for days. We combine large datasets of individual cell properties with mathematical models and theories (videos). This interdisciplinary approach to science is a core feature of our group. 

The group is led by Gabriele Micali. We will start in April 2022. We will be part of IRCCS Istituto Clinico Humanitas and have close collaborations with the Human Technopole. We will be located in Milano, Italy. 

We are going to have PhD and postdoc positions open soon.
​Learn how to join us!

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NEWS
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we are hiring two PhDs and a postdoc


- 31 January 2023: Hannah is leaving us (end of Master) and Abhishek is joining us (starting DASMEN PhD program)

- 16 August 2022: ISME18 - follow my presentation today at 12.00
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- May 2022: Hannah Raasch joined the group, welcome!  


- April 2022: first day at Humanitas

- January 2022:
Our new paper with Davide Ciccarese et al. is published in ISME J. 


- 06 October 2021:
Our new paper with Alexandra Colin, Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino and Sven van Teeffelen, on division control in E. coli, is published in eLife

- 28 September 2021:
We are among the five winners of the first Early Career Fellowships of the Human Technopole.  We will be working at Humanitas in Milan. News coverage.

- 03 August 2021:
Our new paper with Alyson Hockenberry and the MSE group, on microbiota-derived metabolites and their impact on Salmonella, is published in PNAS.

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