Computational genomics of bacterial gene regulation
We are interested in the evolution of transcriptional regulatory networks in bacteria, and to a lesser extent in archaea and eukaryotes. We are a fully computational lab, and we use publicly-available genome sequence data to perform various comparative genomic analyses to address questions on how sequence features and molecular functions that define transcription factors might have evolved.

While our core interest is in transcriptional regulatory networks, we also collaborate with other labs (Sunil Laxman, inStem) to understand the evolution of metabolic pathways across kingdoms of life.