Karina
Gutierrez Garcia
Postdoctoral Associate // Ludington Lab
Research
The Ludington Lab investigates basic ecological principles in the context of gnotobiotic Drosophila melanogaster microbiomes in order to understand the complicated and often complex relationship between microbiome and host.
Get to know Biosphere Sciences and Engineering postdoc Karina Gutierrez Garcia, who recently published a paper in Science identifying genes that enable beneficial bacterial species to colonize specific regions of the gastrointestinal tract.