Our approach

We employs an interdisciplinary approach to study processes that significantly impact the global carbon cycle, alternative energy sources, and biomedical applications. We work at the intersection of chemistry, anaerobic microbiology, and biophysics, exploring processes essential to these fields. A primary focus of our research is to develop a molecular understanding of the proteins involved in electron transport, energy conservation, and stress response in anaerobic microbes. The questions we investigate are addressed using a variety of methods, including molecular biology, genetics, protein expression and purification, spectroscopy, transient-state kinetics, and structural biology.