Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

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Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Immunology

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Investigate the genetic and environmental factors that underlie the mechanistic basis for the heterogeneity in outcomes in response to infection

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Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Plant and Microbial Biosciences

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We work on social interactions and mutualism using a microbial system so we can study cheating, conflict and cooperation at experimental and genomic levels, within and between species, in particular in social amoebae and their farmed bacteria

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social evolution; multicellularity; mutualism; symbiosis; experimental evolution; disease; social amoebae; Dictyostelium; science education; birds

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Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Computational and Systems Biology
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Molecular Genetics and Genomics

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protein design, protein engineering, influenza, RSV, machine learning , vaccines, antivirals

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Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

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Infectious causes of cancer and chronic diseases

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Computational and Systems Biology
Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

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Metabolism analysis and metabolic engineering of environmental microorganisms for biofuel/chemical production

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Metabolic flux analysis, bioenergy, metabolic engineering, algal bioprocess, bioremediation, kinetic modeling

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Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

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Pathogenic interactions between microbes and the gut

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bacteriology, evolution, genome analysis, inflammation, microbial pathogenesis

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Molecular Cell Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

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Epigenetic regulation of phenotypes by propagation of prions in yeast

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amyloid, chaperones, epigenetics, neurodegeneration, prion, yeast

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Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Computational and Systems Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Immunology
Cancer Biology

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We want to understand how microbes interact with humans so that we can identify new strategies to improve health. Our research integrates 'skinomics', metagenomics and host-microbial genetics to address how microbes influence skin physiology.

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microbiome, skin, dermatology, skin diseases, infection, skin cancer, wound healing, environmental exposures

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Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

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Biophysical mechanisms of infectious disease

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Immunology
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

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Cytokine-mediated tissue feedback loops that maintain homeostasis, and environmental factors that instigate inflammation and fibrosis.

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