Faculty, program staff, instructors, and mentors listed for this program year.
Faculty sponsor · Department of Microbiology
Tom has been interested in phages since graduate school, where he studied how phages lyse bacterial hosts. His lab studies bacterial cell biology, cell-surface biogenesis, and corynebacterial phages as tools for understanding how this group of bacteria grows.
Faculty partner · Biomedical Informatics and Microbiology
Michael studies bacterial evolution and computational genomics, with a focus on antibiotic resistance, horizontal gene transfer, and the roles phages play in both.
Program operations and lab manager · Bernhardt Lab
James is a former bench scientist and current lab manager. He coordinates lab setup, materials, safety, schedule support, and daily operations so students and instructors have what they need for the summer research work.
Past instructor · Bernhardt Lab alumna
Amelia studies how phages interact with host bacteria during infection, and how those interactions teach us about bacterial growth, division, pathogen evolution, and microbial communities.
Past instructor · Baym Lab
Siân studies how phages can rapidly alter bacterial biology and drive bacterial evolution. She has been a strong advocate for communicating the excitement of phage research.
Past instructor · Baym Lab
Natalia studies mobile genetic elements in bacteria using both wet-lab and bioinformatics approaches. She is especially interested in conflicts between conjugative plasmids and bacteriophages.
Past instructor · Bernhardt Lab
Kate studies how bacteria coordinate expansion of their multi-layered cell envelope during growth and division. She is interested in the diversity and complexity of microbial life.
Past instructor · Bernhardt and Rudner Labs
Thomas studies how basic cellular processes such as growth, division, and cell separation organize in bacteria. He began his scientific training in a community college setting and has been committed to research access for community college students.