The Dietrich Lab studies bacterial models for biological shape and pattern formation. The lab also focuses on molecular mechanisms of pattern formation in bacterial communities and mechanisms of membrane invagination and shape determination in purple phototrophs.
Past PMB Seminars
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Erica Newman: Erica Newman-Ecology in a Changing World: Differentiating the Effects of Natural Disturbance Regimes from Anthropogenic Changes on Ecosystems in Transition
Disturbances, such as wildfire, hurricanes, and floods have a fundamental role in structuring ecological communities, and the study of these processes and extension to novel ecological disruptions is of increasing importance due to global change. A better understanding of ecological perturbations and quantitative comparisons of their effects over multiple scales is required for both species-level...
Sibum Sung: Mechanisms controlling temperature-mediated developmental changes in Arabidopsis
The Sung laboratory works to understand how the environment affects gene expression resulting in different developmental fates in plants.
N. Louise Glass: Investigating fungal communication
The Glass laboratory is interested in cell specialization, communication and nonself recognition, all crucial mechanisms in microbial organisms such as filamentous fungi.
Hipsters, Hope, and Artisanal Mezcal: The Promise and Peril of Consumer-Based Movements
Sarah Bowen is Associate Professor of Sociology at North Carolina State University and author of Divided Spirits: Tequila, Mezcal, and the Politics of Production (University of California Press, 2015). Her work focuses on food systems, local and global institutions, and inequality in the United States, Mexico, and France.
Jeff Cox: Architecture of a lipid transport system that transverses the bacterial periplasmic space
The Cox Lab researches which pathogenic bacteria manipulate their host to cause infections.
Assessing benefits, costs, and tradeoffs of biologically-diversified farming systems in California's Central Coast
Our work will explore: (1) the ways that DFS influence ecosystem services and biodiversity; (2) how DFS affect the yields, economic performance, and socioeconomic resilience of farming operations; and (3) how growers perceive and experience the benefits, costs, and tradeoffs of DFS.