Recent News
2026-02 Join us! Open postdoc positions in quantitative flux analyses and physiological principles of growth. See open positions →
2025-12 New paper in Nature Communications: Maintenance of cytoplasmic and membrane densities shapes cellular geometry in E. coli. Read paper →
2025-09 Welcome to Théo Gervais!
2025-07 New paper in Cell: Quantifying the varying harvest of fermentation products from the human gut microbiota. Read paper →
2025-06 PRX Life paper on diurnal variations in gut microbial dynamics featured in a Physics Viewpoint by Anne-Florence Bitbol. Read viewpoint →
Research Themes
Human gut microbiota How do bacterial metabolism, diet, and intestinal physiology jointly shape the gut microbiome and its chemical exchanges with the human host?
Microbial cell physiology How do cells coordinate growth across thousands of molecular processes? We study the essential principles of microbial physiology in E. coli.
Physiology–ecology–evolution How do cell-physiological constraints shape ecological adaptation and determine what a species fundamentally is?