“The distribution and composition of biomass on Earth”
Kian Faizi, Phillips Lab
“Mixtures of Gaussian latent variable models can identify multiple modes of gene coexpression”
Nicholas Markarian, Sternberg Lab

“Hydroxylamine-dependent nitrate reduction by the complete ammonia oxidizing bacteria Nitrospira inopinata”
Britt Abrahamson, University of Washington, Civil & Environmental Engineering Department

“Enzyme-tk: A computational and experimental pipeline for the identification of engineerable enzymatic starting points for wastewater bioremediation”
Ariane Mora, Arnold Lab

“Bacterial small RNAs: Key mediators of the molecular and cellular dialogue in the development of early host colonization”
Viridiana Avila-Magana, McFall-Ngai and Ruby Labs

“Evolution and ecology of gut microbial communities”
KC Huang, Professor of Bioengineering and Microbiology and Immunology and (by courtesy) Biochemistry; Director, Biophysics Program, Stanford University, Bioengineering Department

“Evolution of C. elegans - microbiome interactions”
Hinrich Schulenburg, Professor in Zoology, Kiel University & Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology

“Enabling biology by design with cell-free gene expression and bacteriophages”
Yan Zhang, Clemons Lab and Murray Lab
“Unraveling the hidden networks of AMR: From environmental hotspots to the gut microbiome” Grace Solini, Karthikeyan Lab

“An exploration of the ultrastructure of a unique manganese oxidizing co-culture”
Hannah Way, Leadbetter Lab
“Methane-based microbial lifestyles in and on seep carbonate rocks” Magdalena Mayr, Orphan Lab

“Towards declarative bioengineering”
Zach Martinez, Murray Lab
“Multiplexed ultrasound imaging of gene expression” Nivin Nasri, Shapiro Lab

“Revealing distinct microbial signatures of necrotizing enterocolitis using novel quantitative metagenomic technologies”
Kathy Gopalakrishna, Ismagilov Lab
“Streamlining megabase-scale bacterial genome engineering” Tomasz Gawda, Wang Lab

“Unraveling the role of microbiomes in photosynthetic marine holobionts”
Mónica Medina, Pennsylvania State University

“Building a bioisotopic model of central metabolism and amino acid biosynthesis to merge isotope biogeochemistry and metabolomics”
Yeonsoo Park
Sessions Lab
“In situ mechanisms of biological nitrogen fixation”
Rebeccah Warmack
Rees Lab

“Antibody 007: A best-in-class V3-targeting bNAb that utilizes avidity”
Andy DeLaitsch
Bjorkman Lab
“Tracing symbiont metabolic contributions to promote Drosophila tissue regeneration”
Judah Bates
Goentoro Lab

“Poking around the twilight zone”
Calvin Rusley
Fischer Lab
“Catalytic reduction of cyanide to ammonia and methane at a mononuclear Fe site”
Christian Johansen
Peters Lab

“Directed evolution for the enantio- and diastereodivergent synthesis of spirocycles”
Jae Kennemur
Arnold Lab
Bioenergetic suppression by redox-active metabolites promotes antibiotic tolerance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Richard Horak
Newman Lab

“Development of systemic rAAV tools for regenerative spiny mouse central and peripheral nervous systems”
Jin Hyung (Alex) Chung
Gradinaru Lab
“Altered microbial communities and their impacts on pathophysiology in a mouse model of Parkinson’s disease”
Anastasiya (Ana) Moiseyenko
Mazmanian Lab

“Inhibiting the GET pathway in H. sapiens and P. falciparum”
Juliet Lee
Clemons Lab
“Establishing symbiosis in the squid-vibrio system: The power of scRNA-seq and a look into the skin”
Vera Beilinson
McFall-Ngai Lab

“Droplet sequencing reveals virulence gene clusters in extracellular vesicles from human microbiota”
Sotaro Takano
Newman Lab
“Unveiling the microcosm: archaea in extreme environments”
Aidyl Gonzalez-Serricchio
Sternberg Lab

“Gene-microbiome interactions in mouse models of Parkinson’s disease”
Aubrey Schonhoff
Mazmanian Lab
“cryoEM structures of mechanosensitive channels of large conductance”
Xiang Feng
Rees Lab

“Cell-selective chemical proteomics enables targeted analysis of a low-abundance organism in a polymicrobial system”
Grace Z. Wang
Tirrell Lab
“Creation of bacterial genomic chimeras via megabase-scale genome expansion”
Raymond Zhang
Wang Lab

“Human blood-brain barrier receptor-guided evolution of AAVs for brain gene therapy”
Changfan Lin
Gradinaru Lab
“Engineered conductive proteins to facilitate microbial respiratory mechanisms”
James Wang
Manthiram Lab

“Towards discovering antibodies to target invariant domains in HIV-1”
Luis Caldera
Bjorkman Lab
“Microbial colonization dynamics and activities on marine particles”
Shaelyn Silverman
Orphan Lab

“Elucidating reaction network in carbon metabolism of soil bacteria: metabolomics-enabled explorations of natural carbon cycling to innovate engineered carbon recycling”
Professor Ludmilla Aristilde, Visiting Faculty

“Crossing the salty divide: the Great Oxidation event, cyanobacterial evolution, and the marine-terrestrial barrier?”
Professor Boswell Wing, Visiting Faculty

“Spatiotemporal regulation of programmed cell death in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms”
Georgia Squyres
Newman Lab
"Genetically encoded reporters for multiplexed imaging of microbes on ultrasound"
Nivin Nyström
Shapiro Lab

“The role of modulating Drosophila microbiome to promote tissue regeneration”
Judah Bates
Goentoro Lab
"Deciphering the regulatory architecture of promoters in E. coli using high-throughput sequencing"
Tom Roeschinger
Phillips Lab

“Developing a flow-through culturing apparatus for the cultivation of a unique manganese oxidizing biofilm”
Hannah Way
Leadbetter Lab
"Molecular fingerprinting of microbial nitric oxide detoxification"
Zachery Lonergan
Newman Lab

“Probing Metabolism in an E. coli-Based Cell-Free System Reveals a Trade-Off between Transcription and Translation”
Manisha Kapasiawala
Murray Lab
"Catalytic transfer hydrogenation of nitrogen to ammonia via a photoredox catalysis strategy"
Emily Boyd
Peters Lab

“How is it killing me?": Using Viral-BONCAT genomics to identify the active viral fraction”
Dr. Fran Martinez
Orphan Lab
"Bacterial growth dynamics in a rhythmic symbiosis"
Liu Yang
Ruby and McFall-Ngai Labs

“Structural basis of phage single gene lysis proteins targeting bacterial cell wall biosynthesis”
Evelyn (Yancheng) Li
Clemons Lab
"Expanding systemic recombinant adeno-associated viral vectors to emerging model organisms"
Alex (Jin) Chung
Gradinaru Lab

“Enzymatic nitrogen insertion into aliphatic C–H bonds”
Shilong Gao
Arnold Lab
"Sequencing-based mutagenesis screening of C. elegans identifies modifiers of let-23 EGFR signaling"
Hillel Schwartz
Sternberg Lab

“Structure and function of the Dot/Icm T4SS”
Przemyslaw Dutka
Jensen Lab
"Towards the mechanism of a bacterial arsenite efflux pump ATPase, ArsA"
Shivansh Mahajan
Rees Lab

“Chemical and biological discovery in the microbial world”
Emily Balskus
Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of Chemistry
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Harvard University

“Hydra and the big picture: how microbes suppress pathogens, direct development and control the eating behaviour”
Thomas C.G. Bosch
Zoological Institute, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

“Global analysis of protein degradation in Escherichia coli”
Elliot Mackrell
Tirrell Lab
“Synthetic composition control using stochastic phenotype switching”
Matthieu Kratz
Murray Lab

“Development of mosaic nanoparticle vaccines to elicit broadly protective antibody responses”
Alexander Cohen
Bjorkman Lab
“Regenerative response in Drosophila limb induced by bacteria”
Zevin Condiotte
Goentoro Lab

“Towards a thermally self-regulating living material”
Lealia Xiong
Kornfield Lab
“The role of context-dependent metabolite toxicity in organizing microbial communities”
Steven A. Wilbert
Newman Lab

“Gut microbiome shapes mitochondria function in α-syn overexpressing mice”
Livia Hecke Morais
Mazmanian Lab
“Structure of Anabaena flos-aquae gas vesicles revealed by cryo-ET”
Shapiro Dutka
Orphan Lab

“Do microbes from cold methane seep sediments prefer sulfur redox intermediates over sulfate?”
Eryn Eitel
Sessions Lab
“Sediments, strains, and symbiosis: Unraveling the microbial ecology and evolution of a methane seep syntrophy”
Dan Utter
Orphan Lab

“Journey to the center of the nodule: Investigating the ultrastructure of a manganese-oxidizing chemolithoautotrophic co-culture”
Hannah Way
Leadbetter Lab
“Discovering the entire regulome of E. coli”
Grace Solini
Phillips

“Microbial enrichment method enables high-throughput metagenomic characterization from host-rich samples, including clinical biopsies”
Natalie Wu-Woods
Ismagilov Lab
“CaltechASM”
Kate Radford
CaltechASM

“Lyophilization of LAMP reagents for point-of-sampling wastewater-based epidemiology: A novel system for small, remote and developing system applications”
Sean McBeath
Hoffmann Lab
“Electrostatic Effects influence Fe-based catalyst selectivity for N2 fixation in protic media”
Lucie Nurdin
Peters Lab

“The influence of substrate complexity on structure and function of anaerobic marine microbial communities”
Sujung Lim
Orphan Lab
“Trajectories for the evolution of bacterial CO2-concentrating mechanisms”
Avi Flamholz
Newman Lab

“Generation of chimeric organisms through mega-base scale genetic engineering”
Bryan Gerber
Wang Lab
“Adventures of Get3 and friends”
Victor Garcia Ruiz
Clemons Lab

“Field-based measurements to quantify controls on the soil methane sink”
Hannah Dion-Kirschner
Fischer Lab
“Steinernema hermaphroditum as a genetic model to study inter- and intra-specific interactions”
Mengyi Cao
Sternberg Lab

“Directed evolution of a tyrosine synthase”
Patrick Almhjell
Arnold Lab
“Engineering the capsid of adeno-associated virus for diversified tropism”
David Goertsen
Gradinaru Lab

First annual CEMI spring Celebration of Science on May 12, 2021 at 4PM. The hour-long science program featured short lightning talks from CEMI graduate students and postdocs, followed by time to talk with the speakers and socialize with our CEMI colleagues.