Research areas:

• 100K Pathogen Genome Project
• Molecular ecology of Salmonella in ready-to-eat foods and animals;
• Molecular diagnostics development using lipids, artificial cells, and genomics;
• Metagenomics of extreme environments, skin, and gut;
• DNA/RNA modification in bacteria;
• Signal transduction and genomics of bacterial association with eukaryotic cells;
• Effect of the redox potential on bacterial metabolism during host association;
• Metabolism of infection and commensalism;
• Natural antibacterial compound discovery;
• Computing regulartory neteworks for metabolic control analysis using flux, gene expression ane metabolomics