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The Chandler lab seeks to understand how complex behaviors like communication and cooperation evolve in bacteria. Such behaviors are considered social and studying these behaviors is pa...Read More »

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Over the last 25 years, global efforts have made substantial progress in reducing the rate of hunger and malnutrition; however, with the planet's continued population growth, 4.6 billion peop...Read More »

Postdoc Panel: Strategies and insights on the process of applying for and making the most of a postdoc position

Vibrio cholerae (Vc) is a Gram negative bacterium that colonizes the human gastrointestinal (GI) tract and expresses cholera toxin, which leads to the profuse watery diarrhea characteris...Read More »

I will discuss my scientific journey to my current position at the University of California Santa Cruz, including the importance of fishing approaches to identifying antibodies and mutants that g...Read More »

My lab investigates the molecular mechanisms used by germ cells to establish and maintain their identity, immortality, and totipotency.  We study germ cells in the model organism C. elegans ...Read More »

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A central pillar of molecular pathogenesis is that translocated bacterial effectors modulate host proteins to remodel the host cell and escape immunological defenses. We have recently uncovered a...Read More »