Ian Gooi

PhD Student

Hello there. I’m Ian, a microbe and data wrangler interested in the predictability and repeatability of antibiotic resistance evolution. My PhD work was based on the Gram-negative soil bacterium Acinetobacter baylyi, which I used as a model organism to understand evolutionary dynamics on a broader scale. Using a combination of experimental evolution and in-silico prediction, I explored both how A. baylyi evolves in response to antibiotic pressure, as well as the functional limits and challenges of trying to predict evolutionary trajectories from first principles. When I’m not in the lab, I’m also interested in (separately) sandwiches, tea, spiders, and Oxford commas.