Microbiology

Microbiology

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

Yiyin Erin Chen
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Yiyin Erin Chen

Robert A. Swanson (1969) Career Development Professor of Life Sciences; Core Member, Broad Institute

Erin Chen studies how the microbes in our bodies educate our immune systems, in order to engineer microbial therapeutics for human disease.