My group is broadly interested in how microbes adapt to novel environments, including surfaces, stresses, and hosts. We’ve been part of a NASA Astrobiology Institute studying how multicellular life evolves using microbial model systems, and I’ve been a reviewer and Chair of the Microbiology program within Space Biology, aiming to understand various aspects of microbial and microbiome growth in space. Our current interests include how microbial biofilms grow at low gravity and how these properties influence stress tolerance and interactions with hosts, as mutualists, commensals, or pathogens.
We are broadly interested in how microbes adapt to novel environments, including surfaces, stresses, and hosts. We’ve been part of a NASA Astrobiology Institute studying how multicellular life evolves using microbial model systems, and I’ve been a reviewer and Chair of the Microbiology program within Space Biology, aiming to understand various aspects of microbial and microbiome growth in space. Our current interests include how microbial biofilms grow at low gravity and how these properties influence stress tolerance and interactions with hosts, as mutualists, commensals, or pathogens.
