WILL HARCOMBE

Associate Professor
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior

PhD, Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Texas Austin, 2009

harcombe@umn.edu
wrharcombe.org

Research Interests

Cooperation and conflict, eco-evolutionary feedback, microbial communities, microbial interactions, and systems biology; interplay between ecological and evolutionary processes across multiple levels of biological organization with computational approaches to quantitatively investigate how behavior of metabolic networks influences the emergent properties of complex cells and ecosystems.

Bio

In his work, Will Harcombe uses synthetic communities to mechanistically dissect the interplay between ecological and evolutionary processes across multiple levels of biological organization. His lab uses computational approaches to quantitatively investigate how the behavior of metabolic networks influences the emergent properties of complex systems from cells and ecosystems.