Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Program affiliation
Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Molecular Cell Biology

Research summary
Defining how ubiquitin and other post-translational modifiers contribute to cellular regulation and turnover and how the phytochrome photoreceptor system controls plant and microbial development.

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Program affiliation
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Molecular Cell Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Research summary
Intracellular replication of Legionella pneumophila within macrophages

Key words
bacteriology, pathogenesis, macrophage, intracellular trafficking, immunology

Program affiliation
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Immunology
Computational and Systems Biology
Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Research summary
Discovery and Characterization of Novel Viruses

Key words
microbial pathogenesis, functional genomics, virology, genome analysis, computational biology

Program affiliation
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Research summary
Antibiotic drug discovery

Key words

Program affiliation
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Molecular Cell Biology

Research summary
Mechanism of translational fidelity and its impact on cellular fitness and codon evolution

Key words
Translation, Ribosome, RNA, Fidelity, peptide-bond formation, pre-steady state kinetics, translational regulation

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

Research summary
Synthetic biology for advanced biofuels, biomaterials, and chemicals.

Key words
Synthetic biology, Metabolic engineering, regulatory systems, biomaterials

Program affiliation
Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Molecular Cell Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Research summary
Understand how photosynthesis and photosynthetic cells respond to high temperatures and what factors limit heat acclimation by using both green algae and land plants as models

Key words
Photosynthesis, heat stress, green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, C4 plant Setaria viridis

Program affiliation
Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Computational and Systems Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Research summary
Epigenetic regulation of plant traits and environmental adaptation

Key words
Epigenetics, DNA methylation, Histone modification, gene silencing