Room 209, School of Arts and Sciences
Central Campus
Phages, the viruses that infect and kill microbes, are the most abundant life forms on Earth, playing essential roles in human health and ecosystems. They hold immense potential in biotechnology, especially in addressing the global challenge of antimicrobial resistance. However, phages remain vastly understudied due to the lack of standardized tools for their experimental and computational analysis.
In this presentation, I will showcase innovative frameworks from our lab that use machine learning and deep learning to transform how we study phages. This work paves the way for groundbreaking applications, including virus engineering, microbiome modulation, and phage therapy, unlocking the vast potential of phages in science and medicine.
Karthik Anathraman is a microbiologist with broad research interests in microbial ecology, virology, biogeochemistry, and genomics. His research spans environmental and human microbiomes, biogeochemistry, and bioinformatics, focusing on integrating microbial and viral ecology with data science to study human health, ecosystem change, and biogeochemistry. He and his lab study the basic biology and ecology of phage and microbial metabolic interactions in human and environmental microbiomes, and integrate omics approaches with ecological data to enhance our ability to predict microbiome, ecosystem, and host health states.
