Area of research
Pharmacology · Molecular Biology
Research interest
Research interests include Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Marine Sponges and Natural Products, and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology.
Discovery of a lagriamide polyketide by integrated genome mining, isotopic labeling, and untargeted metabolomics
Critical Assessment of Metagenome Interpretation: the second round of challenges
Horizontal Gene Transfer to a Defensive Symbiont with a Reduced Genome in a Multipartite Beetle Microbiome
An antifungal polyketide associated with horizontally acquired genes supports symbiont-mediated defense in Lagria villosa beetles
Accessing chemical diversity from the uncultivated symbionts of small marine animals
Origin of Chemical Diversity in Prochloron-Tunicate Symbiosis
Species specificity of symbiosis and secondary metabolism in ascidians
A Bacterial Source for Mollusk Pyrone Polyketides
Bacterial Endosymbiosis in a Chordate Host: Long-Term Co-Evolution and Conservation of Secondary Metabolism
Genome streamlining and chemical defense in a coral reef symbiosis
Structure and Biosynthesis of the Antibiotic Bottromycin D