Join us to study microlife as a physicist/biologist/engineer at CMU!

Our drive is to discover “biological laws” that can help us understand living systems in a quantitatively precise way. Towards this goal, we develop/adapt tools, do rigorous measurements, and define new concepts. We are currently searching for simple yet fundamental rules connecting the complicated form of bacterial cells and their fitness in different environments. Learn more…

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9/6/24 - We welcome Patrick Xue to our lab for undergraduate research! Patrick will explore bacteria's life in sub-optimal environments.

8/5/24 - Four of the Si lab members present their research as posters at the Bacteria and Phages Meeting in Madison, Wisconsin. Go Team CMU!!

7/1/24 - Gabrielle received an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology (PRFB) to support her research on microbial life in extreme conditions in the next three years. Congratulations!!

3/1/24 - Our rotation PhD student, Mo Zhou, decided to stay in our lab. Welcome, Mo!!

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