Great news: our group has been awarded a 2-year grant from NSF-Simons National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology (NITMB) to support our project on mathematical modeling of microbial communities (Sept 2025–Aug 2027). This should be enough to fund the rest of Zihan Wang until his defense and then fund someone else after his graduation!
Our experimental collaborator on this project is Seppe Kuehn from U Chicago.