Abreu Lab

Welcome to the Abreu lab @ NYU!

Our goal is to formulate rules of how microbial communities respond to changing environments, using a combination of tractable experimental systems, high-throughput genomic tools, and mathematical models.


Latest news

11/22/24: Madeline joined the lab !

11/15/24: Dawson joined the lab !

9/1/24: Clare will speak at the Simons Foundation symposium, "Function of Evolving Systems," in New York, NY on December 2.

8/24: Clare taught a Stanford mini-course with Dr. Marianna Karageorgi and Jess Rhodes, "Whole-genome sequencing and applications: from yeast to fruit flies." Materials are available on github.

7/17/24: Clare published a paper with Shaili Mathur and Dr. Dmitri Petrov, "Environmental memory alters the fitness effects of adaptive mutations in fluctuating environments."

Contact us:


Dr. Clare Abreu

Assistant Professor of Biology

New York University

Center for Genomics and Systems Biology

12 Waverly Pl, Room 406

New York, NY 10003


email: clare dot abreu at nyu dot edu