Community Ecology of Bacteria

My research focus is on the community ecology of bacteria. I'm interested in identifying the bacterial species found in the carnivorous plant Sarracenia purpurea and understanding their geographic distribution. In parallel, I'm studying in the evolution of multicellular behavior of bacteria, using swarming motility in E. coli as a model system. I'm a joint post-doc with Anne Pringle in the Dept of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology.