Synthetic Structural Biology

Our research group investigates the design and engineering of biological systems through an integrated approach combining structural biochemistry,…

Biocomputation Lab

Microbial Population and Comparative Genomics

Our research group focuses on comparative genomics and population genomics of microorganisms to better understand their diversity, evolution and…

Host-microbiome Interactions Along the Gut-Brain Axis

My group focuses on understanding the role that bacterial amyloids produced by the gut microbiome play in promoting neurodegeneration to help develop…

Chromatin folding and nanoscopy

Our research group focuses on understanding the interplay between genome organization and gene function. We employ cutting-edge techniques such as…

Regulation of gene expression and metabolism in bacteria

Our work is aimed at identifying and characterizing the global regulatory networks that allow bacteria to modulate the expression of their genes in…

Intracellular bacterial pathogens

Our group is interested in deciphering at a molecular and cellular level the mechanisms involved in infectious processes caused by intracellular…

Bacterial engineering for biomedical applications

Our research is aimed to engineer E. coli bacteria for biomedical applications, including the selection of small recombinant antibodies and the…

Genetic Stability

The goals of the research group are to characterize the role of the repair (which are required for error-free DNA repair), and genetic recombination…

Stress and bacterial evolution

The major interest of the group is to understand the bacterial responses to stress. We specifically study hypermutation and hyperrecombination as…