B.A., Stanford University, 1993; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997. Clare Booth Luce Assistant Professor, Caltech, 2000-05; Associate Professor, 2005-06; Professor, 2006-16; HHMI Investigator, 2005-07, 2010-16; Binder/Amgen Professor, 2016-; Davis Leadership Chair, 2017-; Executive Officer, 2017-.

Bioenergetics and cell biology of metabolically diverse, genetically-tractable bacteria

Biochemistry, Structural, and Molecular Cell Biology; Developmental Biology and Genetics; Microbiology and Immunology; Evolutionary and Organismal Biology