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Nkrumah Grant

Assistant Professor of Microbiology

UIUC

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College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

School of Molecular & Cellular Biology

Department of Microbiology

Nkrumah Grant is currently serving as a College Of Liberal Arts & Sciences Assistant Professor of Microbiology at Uiuc.

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Nkrumah Grant

UIUC

Assistant Professor of Microbiology

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evolutionary biology evolutionary applications adaptation genome biology biology genetics microbiology escherichia coli molecular evolution bacteria evolutionary ecology population genetics ecology evolution biological evolution evolutionary microbiology molecular adaptation genetic variation fitness theoretical biology molecular ecology gene evolution microbial genetics clinical microbiology functional ecology evolutionary dynamics evolutionary theory physiological plasticity evolutionary genetics natural selection molecular microbiology pathogen characterization evolutionary significance adaptive phenotypic plasticity microorganisms molecular genetics ecological applications bioenergetics communicable diseases antimicrobial agents infection control natural product research applied microbiology plo biology population dynamics fitness measure bacteriology prokaryotic system ecological modelling theoretical ecology microbial physiology disease outbreaks antibiotic resistance antimicrobial compounds antimicrobial chemotherapy antibacterial agents virulence factors behavioral plasticity population genomics paleoanthropology fitness trajectories escherichia coli populations hyperbolic model cell volumes cell size escherichia coli population maea gene adaptive plasticity phenotypic plasticity historical biases model system model systems mutation rates metabolic plasticity pathogenesis host response general virology infectious diseases

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Deployment of a Vibrio Cholerae Ordered Transposon Mutant Library in a Quorum-Competent Genetic Background. mBio (2025)

Nkrumah A. GrantGracious Yoofi DonkorJordan SontzWilliam SotoChristopher M. Waters

genome editingplo biologypathogen characterizationtransposon mutant librarypathogenesismolecular microbiologygenomicsmicrobiologyvirulence factorstransposon transfermicrobial geneticsmolecular biologyvibrio choleraegenome biologymicrobial pathogenesis

Deployment of a Vibrio Cholerae Ordered Transposon Mutant Library in a Quorum-Competent Genetic Background. bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (2023)

Nkrumah A. GrantGracious Yoofi DonkorJordan T. SontzWilliam SotoChristopher M. Waters

clinical microbiologyinfectious diseasespathogen characterizationtransposon mutant librarypathogenic bacteriamicrobiologybacteriapathogenscommunicable diseasescurrent onequorum-competent genetic backgrounddisease outbreaks

Discovery of Positive and Purifying Selection in Metagenomic Time Series of Hypermutator Microbial Populations. PLoS Genetics (2022)

Rohan MaddamsettiNkrumah A. Grant

real-time evolutionclinical microbiologyevolutionary microbiologymetagenomicsmolecular microbiologyevolutionary applicationsgenome biologyantimicrobial resistancemicrobiologymicrobial geneticsescherichia colihypermutator pathogensgenetics

The Evolution of Adaptive Phenotypic Plasticity Stabilizes Populations Against Environmental Fluctuations. The 2019 Conference on Artificial Life (2022)

Alexander LalejiniAustin J. FergusonNkrumah A. GrantCharles Ofria

ecology evolutionpopulation biologyevolutionary ecologyevolutionary applicationsbehavioral plasticitybehavioral ecologypopulation geneticsenvironmental fluctuationsadaptive phenotypic plasticityadaptationtheoretical biologynatural selectionevolutionary significanceecology and evolutionary biologyphysiological plasticityfitnessfunctional ecologyevolutionary biologyecology

Adaptive Phenotypic Plasticity Stabilizes Evolution in Fluctuating Environments. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (2021)

Alexander LalejiniAustin J. FergusonNkrumah A. GrantCharles Ofria

adaptive phenotypic plasticityecology evolutionadaptationbiological evolutionphenotypic plasticityevolutionary ecologyevolutionary dynamicsphysiological plasticityadaptive plasticitymolecular adaptationbiologyevolutionary biologymolecular evolutionpopulation geneticsgenetic variation

Changes in Cell Size and Shape During 50,000 Generations of Experimental Evolution With Escherichia Coli. Journal of Bacteriology (2021)

Nkrumah A. GrantAli Abdel MagidJoshua FranklinYann DufourRichard E. Lenski

theoretical biologyevolutionary microbiologymicroorganismsmicrobiologybiologybacteriaprokaryotic systemescherichia colievolutionary biologycell volumesbacteriologycell sizegenome biology

Maintenance of Metabolic Plasticity Despite Relaxed Selection in a Long-Term Evolution Experiment With Escherichia Coli. The American Naturalist (2021)

Nkrumah A. GrantRohan MaddamsettiRichard E. Lenski

relaxed selectionevolutionary applicationsbacteriagene evolutiongeneticsbiological evolutionevolutionary microbiologymicrobial physiologymetabolic plasticitymolecular adaptationbiologyescherichia colimolecular evolutionmicrobial ecologyadaptationbioenergeticsfitnessmolecular ecologyevolutionary biology

Model Systems in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior: A Call for Diversity in Our Model Systems and Discipline. The American Naturalist (2021)

Meghan A. DuffyCarlos García-RobledoSwanne P. GordonNkrumah A. GrantDelbert A. GreenAmbika KamathRachel M. PenczykowskiMaría Rebolleda-GómezNina WaleLuis Zaman

ecology evolutionadaptationhistorical biasestheoretical ecologyevolutionary applicationsmodel systembiodiversityecological applicationsfunctional ecologyevolutionary biologyecologymodel systemsecological modellingecology and evolutionary biology

Divergent Evolution of Mutation Rates and Biases in the Long-Term Evolution Experiment With Escherichia Coli. Genome Biology and Evolution (2020)

Rohan MaddamsettiNkrumah A Grant

genetic recombinationbiological evolutionmutation ratesevolutionary applicationsgenome biologymolecular adaptationnatural selectionescherichia colievolutionary biologygeneticsmolecular evolutionpopulation geneticsgene evolutionevolutionary geneticsgenetic variation

Genomic and Phenotypic Evolution of Escherichia Coli in a Novel Citrate-Only Resource Environment. eLife (2020)

Zachary D BlountRohan MaddamsettiNkrumah A GrantSumaya T AhmedTanush JagdishJessica A BaxterBrooke A SommerfeldAlice TillmanJeremy MooreJoan L SlonczewskiJeffrey E BarrickRichard E Lenski

maea geneadaptationevolutionary microbiologyevolutionary applicationsgenome biologymolecular ecologybacteriamolecular geneticsmolecular adaptationescherichia coli populationmicrobial geneticsescherichia colievolutionary biologygeneticsmolecular evolutiongene evolutiongenetic variation

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Nkrumah Grant

Assistant Professor of Microbiology

UIUC

Affiliations

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

School of Molecular & Cellular Biology

Department of Microbiology

Nkrumah Grant is currently serving as a College Of Liberal Arts & Sciences Assistant Professor of Microbiology at Uiuc.

Honors

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Experiences

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Education

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Nkrumah Grant

UIUC

Assistant Professor of Microbiology

You can click a keyword to filter the displayed items

Notable Scholarly Works

Notable Federal Grants

Collaborators

Deployment of a Vibrio Cholerae Ordered Transposon Mutant Library in a Quorum-Competent Genetic Background. mBio (2025)

Nkrumah A. GrantGracious Yoofi DonkorJordan SontzWilliam SotoChristopher M. Waters

Deployment of a Vibrio Cholerae Ordered Transposon Mutant Library in a Quorum-Competent Genetic Background. bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (2023)

Nkrumah A. GrantGracious Yoofi DonkorJordan T. SontzWilliam SotoChristopher M. Waters

Discovery of Positive and Purifying Selection in Metagenomic Time Series of Hypermutator Microbial Populations. PLoS Genetics (2022)

Rohan MaddamsettiNkrumah A. Grant

The Evolution of Adaptive Phenotypic Plasticity Stabilizes Populations Against Environmental Fluctuations. The 2019 Conference on Artificial Life (2022)

Alexander LalejiniAustin J. FergusonNkrumah A. GrantCharles Ofria

Adaptive Phenotypic Plasticity Stabilizes Evolution in Fluctuating Environments. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (2021)

Alexander LalejiniAustin J. FergusonNkrumah A. GrantCharles Ofria

Changes in Cell Size and Shape During 50,000 Generations of Experimental Evolution With Escherichia Coli. Journal of Bacteriology (2021)

Nkrumah A. GrantAli Abdel MagidJoshua FranklinYann DufourRichard E. Lenski

theoretical biologyevolutionary microbiologymicroorganismsmicrobiologybiologybacteriaprokaryotic systemescherichia colievolutionary biologycell volumesbacteriologycell sizegenome biology

Maintenance of Metabolic Plasticity Despite Relaxed Selection in a Long-Term Evolution Experiment With Escherichia Coli. The American Naturalist (2021)

Nkrumah A. GrantRohan MaddamsettiRichard E. Lenski

Model Systems in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior: A Call for Diversity in Our Model Systems and Discipline. The American Naturalist (2021)

Meghan A. DuffyCarlos García-RobledoSwanne P. GordonNkrumah A. GrantDelbert A. GreenAmbika KamathRachel M. PenczykowskiMaría Rebolleda-GómezNina WaleLuis Zaman

Divergent Evolution of Mutation Rates and Biases in the Long-Term Evolution Experiment With Escherichia Coli. Genome Biology and Evolution (2020)

Rohan MaddamsettiNkrumah A Grant

Genomic and Phenotypic Evolution of Escherichia Coli in a Novel Citrate-Only Resource Environment. eLife (2020)

Zachary D BlountRohan MaddamsettiNkrumah A GrantSumaya T AhmedTanush JagdishJessica A BaxterBrooke A SommerfeldAlice TillmanJeremy MooreJoan L SlonczewskiJeffrey E BarrickRichard E Lenski

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