About us

A group of young dedicated biochemists and microbiologists, passionate about microbes and how they can help us live healthier. Our research on microbial life is essentially guided by two questions:

1. What beneficial metabolites do microbes produce?

2. How can we use the microbial products to improve our life?

To address these questions, we are working on several projects with a variety of microorganisms including both beneficial and pathogenic microbes. Moreover, we make sincere efforts to communicate our research findings to the general public, the non-scientist audiences, via facebook, linkedin and blog posts with the goal to help them easily understand the importance of microbes for our wellbeing and for the ecosphere. Your feedback and suggestions on our research is much appreciated.

Focus

"Study of Microbes for Our Wellbeing"

While study of harmful microbes that cause us diseases is of great necessity, understanding of beneficial microbes is no less important as they provide us with essential health benefits. We seek to study (1) microbes that confer beneficial effects on our health such as the probiotic bacteria, and (2) microbes that are beneficial to the environment such as the plant growth promoting microbes.

We also find interest in microbial symbionts in various ecosystems such as rhizobacteria and endophytes, gastrointestinal microbiota, vertebrate microbial symbionts and microbes living in the extremes.

Additionally, we attempt to isolate and characterize microbes that produce extracellular metabolites which have important applications in industrial bioprocesses including enzymes involved in glycoconjugate metabolism, or those depolymerizing macromolecules.

Our fourth focus is on zoonotic pathogens particularly the food-borne pathogenic microbes related to the One-Health issues.

Click here for more on the projects.