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Karthik Anantharaman is an Associate Professor of Bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, affiliated with multiple departments including Integrative Biology and Geoscience. He holds a B.Tech. from National Institute of Technology Karnataka, M.S.E. from University of Michigan, and Ph.D. in Earth and Environmental Sciences from the same university. His research integrates microbial ecology, bioinformatics, and biogeochemistry to study microbiomes in human health and environmental systems.
His primary research focuses on viral and microbial interactions, computational tools for genomic analysis (e.g., VIBRANT, ViWrap), and sulfur metabolism in diverse ecosystems. Key projects include studies of hydrothermal vent microbiomes, gut microbiota dynamics, and viral ecology in freshwater lakes. He leads the Anantharaman Lab, which collaborates with clinicians and environmental scientists to advance understanding of microbiome-driven processes.
Awards include the UW-Madison Vilas Early Career Award (2022) and NIH NIGMS Outstanding Investigator Award (2021). His lab develops software like V-Score-Search and Prophage-DB to analyze viral and microbial diversity. Current students include Etan Dieppa, Katherine Klier, and Cody Martin, focusing on topics like phage engineering and sulfur metabolism.
Recent work explores viral impacts on carbon cycling in deep-sea hydrothermal plumes and the role of gut microbiota in prostate cancer through androgen production. His lab's computational frameworks (e.g., Protein Set Transformer) enable scalable analysis of viromics and microbial genomics.
