Karna Gowda

Karna Gowda

Karna Gowda

Assistant Professor of Microbiology

gowda.51@osu.edu

(614) 688-3830

900 Riffe Building
496 W. 12th Ave

Areas of Expertise

  • Microbial Ecology & Evolution
  • Quantitative biology
  • Applied Mathematics

Education

  • B.S., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Ph.D., Northwestern University
  • Postdoc, University of Chicago

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Research

Microbial communities are the engines that drive the biosphere, playing critical biochemical functions in ecosystems and hosts, from soils to oceans to the human gut. The Gowda Lab's guiding star is the pursuit of natural design principles underlying these functions. Our view is that, by understanding how microbial physiology, ecology, and evolution conspire to “build” community functions, we will learn how to rationally manipulate and design complex microbiomes for the benefit of human health.

The Gowda Lab is an interdisciplinary team of researchers who use experiments with organisms and synthetic communities, statistical learning, and dynamical systems modeling approaches in the pursuit of natural design principles for microbial community functions. We try always to remain close to natural systems through collaborations with field scientists and bioinformatic investigations of environmental 'omics datasets.


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