Clare Abreu

Clare is a postdoctoral fellow in the Petrov lab (2020-now). After studying microbial ecology with model laboratory systems in her graduate studies in the Gore Lab, she has become interested in microbial evolution. Her previous work showed that small communities of soil bacteria responded in universal ways to environmental changes including increasing mortality and temperature. She is now interested in how environmental disturbances affect long-term eco-evolutionary dynamics in both model systems and natural communities. She is working with a community of yeast strains, subject to fluctuations in a spatially and temporally heterogenous environment, to determine how fitness is affected by the abiotic environment and biotic interactions.