Biology
Date:
01/26/2015
MSI Principal Investigator Daniel Bond (Biotechnology Institute; College of Biological Sciences, College of Science and Engineering) is studying how Geobacter microbes use metals for energy. In a recent paper in mBio, he and his co-authors discuss their discovery of a protein that helps the bacteria utilize these metals as they grow underground. The paper’s lead author, Caleb Levar, and co-author Chi Ho Chan are also MSI users. The paper was also written up on the U Discover blog.
The Bond group uses MSI resources for genome assembly of metal-reducing bacteria and for data analysis.