People

Principal Investigator

Kit Pogliano
Professor  and Chair of Molecular Biology

 

 

 


Postdoc

Javier Lopez-Garrido (aka Emperor Don Javier)

I am interested in understanding how bacteria organize their cellular content. The process of sporulation in Bacillus provides an excellent model to tackle this question. During sporulation, the membrane of the mother cell migrates around the forespore in a phagocytosis-like process known as engulfment. I pursue to understand how different protein complexes interact to coordinate membrane movement during engulfment, using a combination of genetics, proteomics and cell biological tools.

 

Anne Lamsa (on the right)

I am interested in determining the mechanism of action of antibiotics and secondary metabolites through fluorescence microscopy.

 

 


Graduate Students

Eammon Riley

I study how metabolic processes are compartmentalized and coordinated between the mother cell and the forespore during sporulation of Bacillus subtilis. I’m also interested in defining additional mechanisms that generate asymmetric gene expression in these two compartments.

 

 

 

Ranmali Perera (on the left)

Secondary metabolites are key molecules essential for mediating interactions between microbes. I am interested in learning how the process of secondary metabolite detoxification plays a role in interspecies interactions.

 

 

 

Kanika Khanna

I am a joint student with Elizabeth Villa and work towards elucidating mechanisms driving engulfment and chromosome translocation in B.subtilis by using high resolution modality of cryo-electron tomography.

 

 

 


Undergraduate Students

 


Past Lab Members

Diana Quach
Graduate Student, Bioengineering

 

 

 

 

Julieta Aguilar
Postdoc, Biological Science

 

 

 

 

Matt Lundberg
Postdoc, Biological Sciences

 

 

 

 

Rachelle (Smith) Trial
Postdoc, Biological Sciences