Purushottam Dixit
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Office Address:
55 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 208260
New Haven, CT 06520
About Purushottam Dixit
Degrees
- BS: Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay 2002-2006
- PhD: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, 2006-2011
- Postdoc: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Columbia University 2011- 2019
- Assistant Professor: University of Florida, 2020-2023
Perspectives
Cellular signaling and population heterogeneity, ecological and evolutionary dynamics of bacterial communities, cellular metabolism, maximum entropy methods.
Selected Awards & Honors
- Maximizing Investigator's Research Award, NIGMS 2022-2026
Selected Publications
- Goetz*, Akl*, and Dixit, The ability to sense the environment is heterogeneously distributed in cell populations, to appear in eLife
- Cancer cells depend on environmental lipids for proliferation when electron acceptors are limited, Li*, Ji*, Dixit*, et al. Nature Metabolism (2022)
- Maximum Entropy Framework for Predictive Inference of Cell Population Heterogeneity and Responses in Signaling Networks, Dixit et al. Cell Systems (2020)
- Quantifying spatiotemporal variability and noise in absolute microbiota abundances using replicate sampling, Ji*, Sheth*, Dixit*, et al. Nature Methods (2019)