Plant bacteria interactions

Bacillus subtilis is a Gram positive rhizobacterium, ubiquitous in soil and is known to form root-associated biofilms that protects plants against fungal and microbial infections.
My work focuses on the question of how self-produced and host-produced small molecules affect the assembly and disassembly of complex multicellular communities in B. subtilis.

A unique host produced-small molecule, reminiscent of bacterial signal, uniquely regulates colony morphology