Faculty & Research

The overall goal of the Goodman lab is to dissect the mechanisms that commensal gut microbes use to compete, cooperate, and antagonize each other in the gut and to explore how microbiome variation impacts our response to external perturbations, including pathogenic infection and medical drugs.

The primary interest of the Dal Bello Lab is to learn how bacteria respond to and modify their environment, and how this, in turn, shapes species interactions, assembly processes, and the structure of microbial communities. Our approach leverages laboratory experiments, data from natural communities, and theory, integrating ideas and tools from community ecology, microbial physiology, and systems biology. We aim to build an ecological toolbox for the management and manipulation of microbiomes.

The Hatzios lab uses chemical and biological tools to identify proteins that are active during infection, determine how they respond to environmental cues, and characterize th

The Liu lab is dedicated to developing a high-throughput cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) pipeline for high-resolution structure determination of molecular machines in cells

The overarching goal of Malvankar lab is to define the mechanisms by which microbes interact with and manipulate their environment using hair-like surfaces appendages that fun

The Mougous lab defines the mechanisms and significance of interbacterial interactions in medical and environmental settings.

The Pi lab is interested in dissecting molecular mechanisms by which microbes, including Bacillus anthracis and Clostridioides difficile, sense and adapt to constantly changin