Research Areas
- Evolution
- Genomics and Bioinformatics
- Microbial Cell Biology and Environmental Responses
- Microbial Interactions and Pathogenesis
The Newton Laboratory is broadly interested in host-associated microbes. We study who those microbes are, what those microbes are doing , how they persist and infect and what the consequences are to their genomic evolution. Projects in the laboratory range from highly mechanistic and cell biological to ecological and bioinformatic.
Current Projects
- Molecular Mechanisms of Pathogenesis and Mutualism
- Metabolic Function in the Microbiome
- Exploring How Host Genetics, Society and Development Interact to Form the Microbiome
- Evolutionary Genomics
- Bioinformatics