Dr. Kyle Floyd
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- About
- Education
Current Courses
499.029Independent Research For The Master's Thesis
499.129Independent Research For The Master's Thesis Last Term
260.001Microbiology
260.002Microbiology
260.003Microbiology
260.004Microbiology
260.005Microbiology
290.015Research In Biological Sciences
599.029Research In The Biological Sciences
499.011Independent Research For The Master's Thesis
290.015Research In Biological Sciences
599.011Research In The Biological Sciences
Teaching Interests & Areas
Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Biotechnology
Research Interests & Areas
My lab is interested in the dynamics of bacterial surface attachment, mediated by adhesive macromolecular structures known as pili, which underly biofilm formation and bacterial pathogenesis. Our research seeks to understand how the facultative human pathogen and causative agent of the gastrointestinal disease cholera, Vibrio cholerae, regulates surface adhesion to mediate both environmental and host colonization.