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.

Much of the research in Dr. Garcia-Pichel’s lab involves microbial communities or key interactions between microbes, and Soumyadev will augment the lab’s capabilities in this area.

Suzuki’s research integrates evolutionary biology, microbiome science, and biomedical research to study the role of host-microbial interactions in animal biology.