Karna Gowda

Karna Gowda studies how microbial communities—groups of bacteria and other microorganisms living together—organize themselves and carry out metabolic functions, using approaches from ecology, evolution, and data-driven modeling. Much of the work aims to predict how genetic makeup and interactions among microbes shape community-level outcomes like nutrient cycling and gene content patterns in natural environments such as soil. The research combines lab experiments, statistical modeling, and theory (e.g., evolutionary fitness landscapes) to understand and forecast microbial community behavior.

Publication output has been relatively steady but modest over the last decade, with occasional peaks (e.g., 2018, 2020) and an average of about 2-3 papers per year in the most recent five years.

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