Areas of Focus

• Bacterial genetics, physiology, and host-pathogen interactions by using an approach of genetics
• Biochemistry, biophysics, structural biology, and animal models
• Borrelia burgdorferi, a causative agent of Lyme disease
• Treponema denticola and Porphyromonas gingivalis, two keystone pathogens associated with periodontitis.

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