Dr. Fangwei Si

Biography

Fangwei Si is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at Carnegie Mellon University, where he aims to uncover the biological laws that help understand living systems in a quantitatively precise manner. His research focuses on developing and adapting tools for rigorous measurements to define new concepts in biological physics. Currently, he studies the fundamental rules that connect the complex forms of bacterial cells to their fitness in varying environments, with particular attention to the interactions between bacteria and phages. His work employs single-cell microfluidics imaging and perturbation experiments to quantify basic membrane properties and the organization of membrane proteins, which are crucial for determining growth rates and adaptability to new environments. Furthermore, he investigates the physiological implications of bacterial-phage interactions and how these dynamics can offer insights into microbial growth at both single-cell and community levels.

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