The interest of Eisenbach’s lab is in guidance mechanisms of cells, focusing on those of bacterial and sperm cells. The topics studied are:

1. Molecular mechanisms of signal transduction in bacterial chemotaxis, using Escherichia coli as a model system.
   
   
2. Mechanism of function of the “gearbox” of the bacterial flagellar motor.
   
   
3. Physiological and molecular mechanisms of mammalian sperm chemotaxis and thermotaxis.