skauraulakh

Simran, a Research Associate in Prof. Kiran Patil’s group (University of Cambridge), has ~8 years of research experience in developing and combining high throughput methods for phenotyping, proteomics, metabolomics and metallomics with computational tools to address unanswered questions in microbial metabolism. During her PhD in Prof. Markus Ralser’s group at the Francis Crick Institute she employed these tools to assess the impact of metal availability on eukaryotic metabolism (Aulakh et al. 2024) and to develop novel metabolically interdependent intra-species co-culture systems that improve bioproduction efficiency of industrially relevant chemicals (Aulakh et al. 2023). At present, Simran is working on characterizing the assembly and evolution of multi-species microbial communities. She will lead this project and apply her diverse experimental skillset to set up a novel cultivation system to explore the metabolism of organisms she has never worked with before.

February 2025