ARKADY KHODURSKY

Associate Professor
Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics

PhD, Biophysics, University of California Berkeley, 1997

khodu001@umn.edu
cbs.umn.edu/contacts/arkady-b-khodursky

Research Interests

Functional genomics, analysis of gene expression patterns, microarray applications; signal processing in relation to gene position on the chromosome. Mechanisms of adaptation in antibiotic-resistant bacteria and genomic landscape of starvation-recovery transitions in bacterial populations.

Bio

In his research, Arkady Khodursky focuses on mechanisms of adaptation in antibiotic resistant bacteria and the genomic landscape of starvation-recovery transitions in bacterial populations. His lab recently began investigating metabolic consequences of the acquired antibiotic resistance using topologically constrained metabolic modelling with the goal of identifying key modulators of the phenotypic variation. The lab also develops and tests experimental designs and statistical approaches to the basic analysis of transcriptomics data.

FRIEDRICH SCRIENC

Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

PhD, Biotechnology, Technical University Graz, 1980

srienc@umn.edu
cems.umn.edu/people/faculty/friedrich-srienc

Research Interests

Fundamental processes of gene expression, protein synthesis, and metabolic networks and how these relate to the growth physiology of cells. Flow cytometry to measure properties at the single cell level and to monitor and control cultures in bioreactors.

Bio

Friedrich Srienc’s research focuses on the physiology of cell growth and the formation of certain cell products of interest in microorganisms. His lab’s research extends into both experimental approaches and theoretical tools with the goal of obtaining experimental data on the composition of individual cells and how this composition is distributed within the population of cells.