User:Todd Ciche

Contact Info



 * Todd Ciche, Assistant Professor
 * Michigan State University
 * Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
 * 2215 Biomedical Physical Sciences
 * East Lansing, MI, USA.
 * Email me through OpenWetWare

I am the PI of the Ciche lab at Michigan State University. I learned about OpenWetWare from interests in synthetic biology originating while a postdoctoral fellow at Caltech (Sternberg lab). I've joined because I believe in the open exchange of protocols, reagents and ideas.

Education

 * 2003-2005, Postdoctoral fellow, Sternberg lab, Caltech
 * 2000-2003, Postdoctoral fellow, Epel lab, Stanford
 * 2000, PhD, Bacteriology, Jerry Ensign adviser, University of Wisconsin-Madison
 * 1994, BS, Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Research interests

 * 1) Use of tractable invertebrate models to determine how microbial symbioses develop.
 * 2) Functional genomic analysis of Heterorhabdits bacteriophora nematodes.
 * 3) Host specificity and the evolution of virulence in Photorhabdus luminescens and Burkholderia

Publications

 * 1) Paper1 pmid=18281425
 * 2) Paper2 pmid=18050499
 * 3) Paper3 pmid=17803822
 * 4) Paper4 pmid=17475494
 * 5) Paper5 pmid=12902261
 * 6) Paper6 pmid=12676661
 * 7) Paper7 pmid=11325940

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