Traxler Lab Research

We seek to understand the roles of specialized metabolites in natural contexts, from warfare to communication to development.

Luis Cantu Morin: Regulation of specialized metabolism during interspecies interactions in Streptomyces coelicolor

What are the regulatory networks controlling specialized metabolism of Streptomyces during interspecies interactions?

Do post-fire soil bacteria produce antifungal secondary metabolites? What role does secondary metabolism play in mediating community succession?

How do fire-adapted microbial communities survive and re-establish in fire-effected soils?

How do fungi survive and thrive in post-fire soils?

What is the role of specialized metabolites in a natural microbiome and how do they impact microbial social behavior?

Discovering antibiotics by high-throughput screening of actinomycete interspecies interactions using microfluidics

How do Streptomyces control specialized metabolism during interspecies interactions?

How do S. coelicolor cells divide their labor?