Faculty bio | Parthasarathy Lab 

Raghuveer Parthasarathy is an academic expert in biophysics, the gut microbiome, microbes and bacterial population dynamics. He is a biophysicist who explores the physical structure of living things and how the laws and principles of physics govern how life works. Elected as a 2022 fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Raghu’s current research focuses on the organization of the zebrafish gut microbiome to answer fundamental questions about how gut microbes interact with each other and their host to shape an ecosystem that influences the overall health of the organism. His lab uses microscopy and 3D imaging to understand how perturbations to the microbiome from sources such as the introduction of new microbial species or antibiotics affect the system’s structure.

Recent Media:
Why elephants have bigger bones (The Harvard Gazette, Dec. 2, 2022)
UO biophysicist named a fellow of the American Physical Society (Around the O, Oct. 5, 2020)
Low-dose antibiotic alters bacteria behavior in zebrafish gut (Science Blog, Oct. 24, 2019)
Research uncovers new clues that could help fight cholera (Around the O, April 11, 2018)
Pub talk will dig into things that make gut microbes tick (Around the O, April 6, 2018)
cUriOus: Into The Bowels Of... Your Bowels (Jefferson Public Radio, Aug. 11, 2017)