bacteria • viruses • fungi • protozoa • horizontal gene transfer • cell-cell signaling • microbial life cycle • microbe-environment interactions • biological niches • signaling • bacterial sex • microbial development • chromosome structure
Microbiology
Faculty Spotlight
Yiyin Erin Chen
Robert A. Swanson (1969) Career Development Professor of Life Sciences; Core Member, Broad InstituteErin Chen studies how the microbes in our bodies educate our immune systems, in order to engineer microbial therapeutics for human disease.