Research Interests
Diversity of Microbes and Microbiomes
A major area of emphasis in my lab is in the study of the ecology, evolution and function of microbes and microbial communities. Our work in this area includes topics such as those listed below:

The genomic basis for the origin and evolution of new functions.
The ecology and evolution of microbial communities.
The co-evolution of microbes and their carrying vessels (i.e., hosts).
Variation in “evolvability.”
The development of phylogeny-driven computational tools to analyze genomic and metagenomic sequence data.