CMDI labs’ publication are listed here.
CMDI labs study microbial interactions in diverse environmental and host systems, ranging from coral reefs to cystic fibrosis lung infections.
CMDI Director
Steve Diggle (School of Biological Sciences)
Microbial interactions and social behaviors and the implications for virulence, antimicrobial resistance and therapeutic interventions
Sam Brown (School of Biological Sciences)
Multi-scale dynamics of infectious disease
Jennifer Curtis (School of Physics)
Physics of cell-cell and cell-extracellular matrix interactions, immunophage therapy
Neha Garg (School of Chemistry and Biochemistry)
Microbial small molecules associated with host microbiome
Brian Hammer (School of Biological Sciences)
Microbial interactions at scales that span genes and genomes, regulatory networks, cells, populations, and communities
Mark Hay (School of Biological Sciences)
Community, marine, and chemical ecology in coral reefs
Joel Kostka (School of Biological Sciences)
Microbial processes that impact Earth’s biogeochemical cycles and provide ecosystem services to human beings
Julia Kubanek (School of Chemistry and Biochemistry)
Chemical biology and ecology of marine natural products
Rachel Kuske (School of Mathematics)
Spatio-temporal dynamics of microbial communities: testing control strategies via combined forward and inverse modeling
Abigail Lind (School of Biological Sciences)
Evolution and ecology of animal intestinal protists
Will Ratcliff (School of Biological Sciences)
Synthetic biology, directed evolution, and mathematical modeling to understand the evolution of multicellularity
Frank Rosenzweig (School of Biological Sciences)
Evolution of complex traits that augment biodiversity, control cell lifespan and drive major transitions in the history of life
Lauren Speare (School of Biological Sciences)
Microbial ecology, parasitism and predation in the coral holobiont
Shu Takayama (Department of Biomedical Engineering)
Microphysiological systems, bioassays, nano- and micro-scale manipulations
Marvin Whiteley (School of Biological Sciences)
Microbial physiology, ecology, virulence, and evolution in chronic infections
Peter Yunker (School of Physics)
Experiments, simulations, and theoretical models to study how groups of cells interact with each other and their environment
