Cooperation vs competition in the face of perturbations by Kiran PATIL

Cooperation vs competition in the face of perturbations by Kiran PATIL

Abstract: A major challenge in synthetic ecology is to understand the principles of stability and resilience of competitive and cooperative interactions. This has direct implications for designing stable communities with desired emergent properties. However, theoretical and experimental work in this area remains inconclusive. I will present my lab’s work on synthetic communities of yeast and lactic acid bacteria that provide tools to ask this question from metabolic, regulatory, genetic, and evolutionary angles and will share the insights we have gained so far. 

Biography: Kiran studied Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (Mumbai, India). Following his PhD in Systems Biology at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Kiran was appointed as Assistant Professor at DTU where he worked on transcriptional regulation and metabolic engineering. In 2010, Kiran joined the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (Heidelberg, Germany) as a Group Leader. He moved to the MRC Toxicology Unit (University of Cambridge) in 2019 and was appointed Professor of Molecular Systems Biology in Dept. Biochemistry in 2022. His lab develops tools and model systems to decipher and engineer microbial interactions.

Kiran Raosaheb Patil is Professor at University of Cambridge, more details -> Kiran Patil