Our lab is interested in questions at the interface of physics and biology. We use a number of experimental techniques from molecular microbiology as well as computational methods to elucidate physical models of biological phenomena. Beyond these fundamental questions, we also have applied efforts to design new technologies for clinical, forensic, and environmental sampling. Some ongoing projects include:

• Studying the population dynamics and physical parameters for maintenance of mobile conjugative DNA elements in bacteria that enable inter- and intra- species exchange of DNA
  
• Comparative genomics design of molecular based clinical diagnostics to identify pathogenic microbes without the need for culturing or downstream sequencing
  
• High-throughput genetic screening of fungi to identify potential drug targets against pathogenicity
  
• Probing heritable error within populations of cells and its relationship to transient errors and fitness