Area of research
Pharmacology · Molecular Biology
Research interest
Research interests include Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Reproductive tract infections research, and Bacterial Infections and Vaccines.
Culture-independent discovery of the malacidins as calcium-dependent antibiotics with activity against multidrug-resistant Gram-positive pathogens
Functional metagenomic discovery of bacterial effectors in the human microbiome and isolation of commendamide, a GPCR G2A/132 agonist
Global biogeographic sampling of bacterial secondary metabolism
Multiplexed metagenome mining using short DNA sequence tags facilitates targeted discovery of epoxyketone proteasome inhibitors
Chemical-biogeographic survey of secondary metabolism in soil
The Chemical Arsenal of <i>Burkholderia pseudomallei</i> Is Essential for Pathogenicity
Mapping gene clusters within arrayed metagenomic libraries to expand the structural diversity of biomedically relevant natural products
Discovery and Synthetic Refactoring of Tryptophan Dimer Gene Clusters from the Environment
Malleilactone, a Polyketide Synthase-Derived Virulence Factor Encoded by the Cryptic Secondary Metabolome of Burkholderia pseudomallei Group Pathogens