WELCOME

Our laboratory is focused on how bacteria integrate diverse environmental signals and diverse metabolic modules to function at the whole cell level. We currently study:

• Biofilms – the mechanisms by which the secondary messenger c-di-GMP modulates the switch between a planktonic and sessile lifestyle. And how environmental signals stimulate c-di-GMP formation
  
  
• Novel acyl-homoserine lactone quorum sensing systems
  
  
• Regulation of photosynthesis
  
  
• Molecular determinants of survival in non-growing bacteria