Smruthi Karthikeyan
Gordon and Carol Treweek Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering; William H. Hurt Scholar
Btech, Anna University (Chennai), 2012; M.S., Columbia University, 2014; Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020. Visiting Associate, Caltech, 2022; Treweek Assistant Professor, 2023-; Hurt Scholar, 2023-.
Overview
Dr. Karthikeyan's research interests lie at the interface of microbial ecology, computational biology and engineering. She builds predictive models that integrate physicochemical and transport data with multi-omic (DNA, RNA and metabolome-level) data to make accurate predictions of microbial community responses to environmental perturbations.
Publications
- Cobián Güemes, Ana Georgina;Ghatbale, Pooja et al. (2023) Jumbo phages are active against extensively drug-resistant eyedrop-associated Pseudomonas aeruginosa infectionsAntimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
- Lin, Tuo;Karthikeyan, Smruthi et al. (2023) Optimizing campus-wide COVID-19 test notifications with interpretable wastewater time-series features using machine learning modelsScientific Reports
- Fielding-Miller, Rebecca;Karthikeyan, Smruthi et al. (2023) Safer at school early alert: an observational study of wastewater and surface monitoring to detect COVID-19 in elementary schoolsLancet Regional Health - Americas
- Usyk, Mykhaylo;Peters, Brandilyn A. et al. (2023) Comprehensive evaluation of shotgun metagenomics, amplicon sequencing, and harmonization of these platforms for epidemiological studiesCell Reports Methods
- Levy, Joshua I.;Andersen, Kristian G. et al. (2023) Wastewater surveillance for public healthScience
- Shaffer, Justin P.;Nothias, Louis-Félix et al. (2022) Standardized multi-omics of Earth's microbiomes reveals microbial and metabolite diversityNature Microbiology
- Karthikeyan, Smruthi;Levy, Joshua I. et al. (2022) Wastewater sequencing reveals early cryptic SARS-CoV-2 variant transmissionNature
- Knyazev, Sergey;Chhugani, Karishma et al. (2022) Unlocking capacities of genomics for the COVID-19 response and future pandemicsNature Methods
- Karthikeyan, Smruthi;Levy, Joshua I. et al. (2021) Wastewater sequencing uncovers early, cryptic SARS-CoV-2 variant transmission
- Karthikeyan, Smruthi;Hatt, Janet K. et al. (2021) A novel, divergent alkane monooxygenase (alkB) clade involved in crude oil biodegradationEnvironmental Microbiology Reports
Related Courses
2023-24
ESE/Ge/Bi/IDS 184 – Computational Tools for Decoding Microbial Ecosystems