Department News

Associate Professor Nandita Garud has a paper published in Nature

Find out how Nandita Garud and recent EEB PhD grad, Richard Wolff, discovered pervasive gene-specific selective sweeps spreading across human gut microbiome around the world.

Nature Article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09798-y

UCLA Newsroom Article: https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/gut-bacteria-evolved-rapidly-digest-starches-ultra-processed-foods

Art credit to Maayan Visuals.

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