Bacterial physiology

Visualizing interactions in native-like microcosms

Cellular heterogeneity

Plant-microbe interactions

Chemical signaling

Bioinformatics of specialized metabolites

"I don't know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than the ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."
                                                                                                                                                  - Sir Isaac Newton