Expertise

Subject areas:

  • Molecular and Cellular Biology and Biochemistry
  • Integrative Organismal Biology
  • Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Conservation Biology

We are a systems microbial biology lab that investigates the role of mobile genetic elements and horizontal gene transfer  in microbial adaptation and evolution.

Past Affiliations

Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Alabama

Associate Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, College of Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology (past)

Associate Professor, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, School of Biological Sciences, College of Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology (past)

Associate Professor, Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, School of Biological Sciences, College of Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology (past)

Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences, College of Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology (past)

Chair, Department of Biological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Alabama

Communities
Biological Science
Degrees
PhD, University of Georgia, Microbiology, 1993
Keywords
microbiology
Associations
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Society for Limnology and Oceanography
American Society for Microbiology