Dr. Rohan Maddamsetti received his undergraduate degree in Computational Biology from Brown University. He conducted his PhD with Richard Lenski at Michigan State University, where he worked on the long-term evolution experiment with Escherichia coli. Rohan’s work with the LTEE has shed light into the evolution of mutation rates, clonal interference dynamics, and led to new algorithms for detecting selection in evolution experiments. He did postdocs at Harvard Medical School and Duke University, where his work combined machine learning and bioinformatics with experimental microbiology to study the evolution of antibiotic resistance. Rohan joined the Dept of Biochemistry and Microbiology at Rutgers University, New Brunswick in January 2025. His current research focuses on how mobile genetic elements accelerate microbial evolution.