The Thompson lab studies Transmembrane signaling by chemotaxis receptors using solid state NMR

The Crane group studies structure, function and mechanism of protein systems that underlie signal transduction.

The Parkinson Lab studies the chemotactic behavior of E. coli to elucidate the molecular mechanisms that cells use to detect and process information about their chemical environment.

The Andersen lab develop DNA and RNA nanostructures for applications in diagnostics, drug delivery and synthetic biology.

The Claessen lab addresses fundamental questions related to multicellular growth and development in filamentous bacteria called streptomycetes.

The focus of the van Wezel lab is to provide novel insight into the complex regulatory pathways that control growth, development and antibiotic production of filamentous actinomycetes, and apply this knowledge for improved commercialization of these important industrial microorganisms.

The Meijer lab is interested in the immunobiology of host-pathogen interactions and work with zebrafish models for infection with intracellular bacterial pathogens, like Mycobacteria and Salmonella, to study mechanisms of host defense.

The Brouns lab is interested in the interaction between microbes and bacteriophages.

The McFall-Ngai lab studies host responses to interactions with beneficial microbes.

The Septer lab studies how interbacterial competition impacts community structure and function in marine ecosystems.

The Ruby group studies the behavioral, physiological and molecular events that characterize the bacterial colonization of animal epithelial tissue.

The Blokesch lab is interested in the environmental lifestyle of pathogenic bacteria and their evolvability. They focus primarily on Vibrio cholerae due to its dual lifestyle as the causative agent of cholera and as a common member of aquatic habitats.