Dahlstrom, Kurt
Kurt Dahlstrom
Assistant Professor, Department of 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 work focuses on understanding the regulation of cell envelope biosynthesis in bacteria using genetic, biochemical, and cell biological approaches.
Our lab seeks to uncover novel regulatory mechanisms of biofilm formation to undermine bacterial survival in chronic infections.
Bacterial adhesion and biofilm formation, dynamics of bacterial nanomachines, microbial subcellular organization.
A bacterial pathogenesis/food safety lab that specializes in the detection and characterization of pathogens from food animal sources that impact human and animal health.
We use genetic and genomic approaches to understand mechanisms of fungal pathogenesis and drug resistance.
Molecular epidemiology of bacterial pathogens using metagenomics; ecology of Salmonella serovars in host animals and environments.
Environmental microbiology, microbial ecology, marine systems, water quality and public health, disease ecology
Molecular mechanisms of plant immune action and bacterial pathogen virulence in model and crop pathosystems. Tool/technique development for phytopathogenesis systems biology and translational research.
Fermentation and biotechnology with emphasis on microbial processes to generate fuels and chemicals; nutrient-limited processes; central metabolism and the effect of redox constraints.