About
Ned S. Wingreen is the Howard A. Prior Professor in the Life Sciences and Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University. He serves as Associate Director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics and Director of the Quantitative and Computational Biology Graduate Program. His research focuses on biological modeling, intracellular networks, and molecular biophysics, with major projects on bacterial signaling, biofilm dynamics, and biomolecular condensates. He collaborates extensively with experimental groups such as Bonnie Bassler’s and Zemer Gitai’s labs on topics like quorum sensing and phage-bacteria interactions.
Key research interests include microbial communities, phase separation in cells, and systems immunology. Recent work explores how bacterial morphology influences collective behavior and how phage predation shapes microbial ecosystems. His lab develops computational models to analyze phenomena like chemotaxis and cell division accuracy in E. coli and Caulobacter crescentus. Wingreen has pioneered agent-based and continuum models for biofilm lifecycle stages and studies the physics of microbial pattern formation.
Publications highlight contributions to understanding bacterial colonization under fluid flow, protein turnover under nitrogen limitation, and phage infection dynamics via M3-Seq sequencing. He has advised over a dozen graduate students in quantitative biology and systems immunology. The Wingreen Lab is affiliated with the Lewis-Sigler Institute and collaborates across disciplines in biophysics, microbiology, and computational biology.
