Lingchong You

Professor of Biomedical Engineering

The You lab uses a combination of mathematical modeling, machine learning, and quantitative experiments to elucidate principles underlying the dynamics of microbial communities in time and space and to control these dynamics for applications in computation, engineering, and medicine.

Appointments and Affiliations

  • James L. Meriam Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering
  • Professor of Biomedical Engineering
  • Professor in Molecular Genetics and Microbiology

Contact Information

Education

  • B.S.E. Chengdu University of Science and Technology (China), 1994
  • M.S. University of Science and Technology of China (China), 1997
  • Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2002

Research Interests

Quantitative biology, synthetic biology, machine learning, antibiotic resistance, microbiome

Courses Taught

  • PHARM 394: Research Independent Study
  • MGM 593: Research Independent Study
  • EGR 393: Research Projects in Engineering
  • CBB 574: Modeling and Engineering Gene Circuits (GE, MC)
  • BME 792: Continuation of Graduate Independent Study
  • BME 791: Graduate Independent Study
  • BME 713S: QBio Seminar Series
  • BME 590: Special Topics in Biomedical Engineering
  • BME 574: Modeling and Engineering Gene Circuits (GE, MC)
  • BME 494: Projects in Biomedical Engineering (GE)
  • BME 493: Projects in Biomedical Engineering (GE)
  • BME 394: Projects in Biomedical Engineering (GE)
  • BIOLOGY 293-1: Research Independent Study

In the News

Representative Publications

  • Li, Zongru, Qionghua Shen, Emery T. Usher, Andrew P. Anderson, Manuel Iburg, Richard Lin, Brandon Zimmer, et al. “Phase transition of GvpU regulates gas vesicle clustering in bacteria.” Nature Microbiology 9, no. 4 (April 2024): 1021–35. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-024-01648-3.
  • Hamrick, Grayson S., Rohan Maddamsetti, Hye-In Son, Maggie L. Wilson, Harris M. Davis, and Lingchong You. “Programming Dynamic Division of Labor Using Horizontal Gene Transfer.” ACS Synthetic Biology, April 2024. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssynbio.3c00615.
  • Luo, Nan, Jia Lu, Emrah Şimşek, Anita Silver, Yi Yao, Xiaoyi Ouyang, Stuart A. West, and Lingchong You. “The collapse of cooperation during range expansion of Pseudomonas aeruginosa.” Nature Microbiology, March 2024. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-024-01627-8.
  • Maddamsetti, Rohan, Yi Yao, Teng Wang, Junheng Gao, Vincent T. Huang, Grayson S. Hamrick, Hye-In Son, and Lingchong You. “Duplicated antibiotic resistance genes reveal ongoing selection and horizontal gene transfer in bacteria.” Nature Communications 15, no. 1 (February 2024): 1449. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-45638-9.
  • Baig, Yasa, Helena R. Ma, Helen Xu, and Lingchong You. “Autoencoder neural networks enable low dimensional structure analyses of microbial growth dynamics.” Nature Communications 14, no. 1 (December 2023): 7937. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-43455-0.