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Postdoctoral Fellow

Lexuan Liu

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research

I am interested in Quantitative Systems Biology.

During my PhD in France, I focused on the interaction of transcription and translation in bacteria exposed to antibiotics at the single-cell level. Before that, I gained experience in Synthetic Biology by building engineered bacteria to synthesize valuable compounds.

Currently, at the Cluzel Lab, I study the molecular response of cells under stress at the single-cell level. I use the Mother Machine to quantitatively measure the molecular phenotypes arising from exposure to antibiotics.

In the future I would like to integrate my data by building Neural Network Models to predict the response of E. coli to antibiotic combinations. With this approach we’ll be able to predict effective cocktails for patients treated for bacterial infections.