Greenberg Lab

Greenberg Lab is focused on the emerging field of sociomicrobiology. It currently studies: Quorum sensing – intercellular communication; Biofilms – the mechanisms by which bacteria switch from a nomadic existence to a sessile biofilm lifestyle and the mechanisms underlying the ability of sessile biofilm bacteria to survive the action of antibiotics; Conspecific territoriality – the ways in which clonal populations of bacteria can discriminate themselves from other clonal populations. Greenberg Lab is interested in the genetic and molecular mechanisms of social behaviors and the evolution of sociality, but it is a fact that social activities the lab studies are of importance in pathogenesis.