BTI directory

Synthetic cells, Cell-free protein expression, Engineering genetic pathways

Stabilization and preservation of biological materials within synthetic materials (bioencapsulation)

Regulatory mechanisms that allow organisms to thrive on potently toxic metabolites; bacterial physiology, metabolic stress, methylobacterium.

Microbial processes for bioremediation of (in)organic environmental contaminants and the recovery of resources from municipal/industrial wastes

Physiology and functional genomics of dissimilatory metal-reducing bacteria; Microbial interactions with electrodes

Molecular recognition and catalysis in the context of proteins, and the process of protein prenylation

Microbial enzymes and systems with potential use in industry or bio-remediation, specifically, the cellular phosphate uptake mechanism.

Natural product biosynthesis, microbial genetics, targeted metagenomics

Microbial physiology, synthetic biology, geomicrobiology

Protein engineering technologies to develop physiological molecular targeting agents for molecular diagnostics and targeted therapy

Microbial photosynthesis and biogeochemical cycles; genomic and functional studies of microbial ecosystems, ecology and evolution

Microbial interactions, Eco-evolutionary dynamics, Systems biology

Microbial ecology of natural and built environments. Occurrence and control of pathogens, including opportunistic pathogens in water supplies

Development of bioprocessing technologies to convert agricultural residue and waste materials to value-added chemicals and biofuels

Cell culture technology, tissue engineering, and metabolic engineering

Applied microbiology and biotechnology with focus on nitrogen pollution and occurrences of pathogens

Green (sustainable) chemistry, enzyme modeling, enzyme design, and enzyme engineering.

Microbiota-host interactions in health and disease

Ecology and evolutionary biology of plant-associated microbes

Model host-microbiome interactions; applied methods to find patterns in microbial communities that predict and diagnose human diseases.

Biological wastewater treatment, wastewater microbiology, environmental microbiology

Computational methods to categorize, visualize, and model biological data and systems

Studying metabolic biochemistry in plant and microbial organisms; focused on metabolite damage and repair associated with the TCA cycle.

Cell-free synthetic biology; cell-free gene expression; gene circuits; bacteriophages; synthetic cell systems; biological physics

Biological control of plant disease. Antibiotic resistance developed by biocontrol organisms.

Impact of microbial activity on geological and environmental processes

Using tools of biomolecular engineering, synthetic biology, and systems biology to design new molecular and cellular therapeutics

I study microbial decomposers, most often the fungi and their biology/biochemistry. 

Exploring and utilizing biosynthetic machineries to enable sustainable synthesis of valuable compounds for use as fine chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and chemical building blocks.

Molecular evolution to generate novel proteins for synthetic biology and biomedical applications, and the study of the origin and evolution of functional proteins

Natural product discovery, genome mining, genetic systems engineering

Impact of microbiota disruptions on diseases and conditions

Ecological and evolutionary dynamics, evolutionary genetics, microbial ecology and evolution; speciation of yeast in developing new microbial solutions

Biodegradation, bioremediation, biosynthesis of hydrocarbons, enzymology, and computational methods for predicting reactivity.