Welcome to Harwood Laboratory
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:
- Plant-Bacterial Communication
- Bacterial Longevity
- Bacterial Persistence Control
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