Murugan group
- Email:
- adityam1@uchicago.edu
- Website:
- https://muruganlab.uchicago.edu/
Background
I did my PhD in physics at Stanford, working on the evolution of biodiversity in microbial communities. How do ecological dynamics, from resource competition to host-pathogen interactions, influence the trajectory of evolution? What evolutionary forces lead to the immense biodiversity we see across scales in nature? What are mechanisms for the coexistence of fine-scale diversity and how can we understand these theoretically? I arrived in Chicago in Fall 2025 and am currently exploring new directions in a range of subjects from the evolution of protein structure to the biochemistry of early life.