Prof. Smruthi Karthikeyan — Research Profile
California Institute of Technology · Bioengineering
Graduate application deadlines
Bioengineering
PhD in Bioengineering (BE)
Fall 2027Application deadline
Dec 1, 2026
Source: bbe.caltech.eduChecked Nov 2, 2026
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Prof. Smruthi Karthikeyan at California Institute of Technology Bioengineering lists microbial ecology, computational biology as their registered research area.
Research keywords
Recent papers
- 73377 Discordance Between Modalities of Metagenomic Taxonomic Identification in Dermatologic Bacterial InfectionsJournal of the American Academy of Dermatology · Jul 1
- SIP-enabled multi-omics reveals soil microbiome responses to drought and rehydrationPreprintbioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · Mar 31
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