Profiles in "Microbiology" Expertise Area

  • Full-time microbiology graduate student experienced with teaching and laboratory research. Pursuing a career in academia. Interested in bacterial genetics, cell physiology, and data science.
  • Marc Fontánez is a Graduate Service Assistant at the Biodesign Center for Fundamental & Applied Microbiomics.
  • The Wadhwa lab seeks to understand how bacteria sense mechanical cues from their environment and how these cues are transduced into biochemical signals to modulate behavior.
  • A northern California native, Candice McKenzie works to maintain the public health of those in the City of Napa and surrounding communities through drinking water and watershed analysis.
  • Sulfide, carbonate, hydrated salt systems, and their interactions with microorganisms. Individual projects - implication for energy/environment, biosensing/bioelectronics, and constraining biogeochemical evolutions.