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Amy Vollmer's research focuses on stress response, i.e., the genetics and physiology of Escherichia coli as it encounters and overcomes challenges in its environment. These stresses include chemical and physical agents that damage cellular components, which require repair or degradation, and nutritional challenges, either too little or too much, which require metabolic adjustments. The Vollmer lab has hosted over 70 students, some of whom have used E. coli that have been engineered to produce light when they are stressed to indicate when the environment has been stressed. Other projects in the Vollmer lab involve the regulation of stress response as well as changes in microbiota (in small animals) that correlate with manipulation of nutrition and metabolism.

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