Research

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Phage Therapy

Phage in infections.
What are phages doing during treatment? What are the impacts of the environment?
​Can we predict which phage will work in any given environment?

Co-evolution

Phage and bacteria co-evolve.
During treatment phage are not static.
There is selection on both the bacteria and the phage.
Can we manipulate coevolutionary dynamics to make better phage therapeutics? 

Evolutionary medicine

How can we use evolution theory to make better drugs.
Adjuvants and antibiotics.
What is the optimal dose of a combination therapy?
Can we use phage steering to reduce Virulence, Antibiotic resistance, and Transmission?
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Quorum sensing

I worked on QS for my PhD and occasionally still do some work on it.
Currently we are looking at two projects. What is the scale at which cheating can occur? How does combinatorial signaling impact multi species interactions.