Dahlstrom, Kurt

Kurt Dahlstrom
Assistant Professor
Microbiology
The rules of microbial community formation to restore and engineer beneficial communities for crops under climate stress and human disease states.
The rules of microbial community formation to restore and engineer beneficial communities for crops under climate stress and human disease states.
Our lab seeks to uncover novel regulatory mechanisms of biofilm formation to undermine bacterial survival in chronic infections.
High throughput genetics to better understand evolution of fungal pathogens and drive antifungal drug discovery.
Meiotic chromosome biology using Drosophila as a model system.
Bacterial adhesion and biofilm formation, dynamics of bacterial nanomachines, microbial subcellular organization.
Plant genome biology with a focus on crops and medicinal plants; Synthetic biology; Evolution of natural product biosynthesis
Cell differentiation during plant reproduction, genomics and gene regulatory networks, single-cell RNA-sequencing, reprogramming cell fate
We use the advanced genetic mouse models to study the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying several diseases: obesity, diabetics, muscle and heart diseases.
Nutritional Genomics; Human Genetics; Population and Quantitative Genomics;
Gene-Diet Interaction during human evolution and in metabolic diseases;