Hi! I’m Katherine Xue.
I study microbial ecology and evolution as an assistant professor at UC Irvine (learn more about my lab here). I investigate the ecological forces and microbial interactions that shape colonization in the human gut microbiome by combining human studies and high-throughput, in vitro experiments. As a graduate student, I studied influenza evolution at the University of Washington and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. I have also written about science for The New Yorker, Harvard Magazine, and The Conversation.
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