{"id":58,"date":"2016-06-02T16:19:56","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T16:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rj\/?page_id=58"},"modified":"2024-10-22T12:58:55","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T12:58:55","slug":"summary-of-current-research-interests","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rj\/research\/summary-of-current-research-interests\/","title":{"rendered":"Current Research Interests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many bacteria are exposed to a variety of environments during their lifecycles.\u00a0 Particular signals in these environments may activate expression of genes that result in changes that allow the bacterium to cope more effectively with a specific environment.\u00a0 Past work in the lab sought to understand how symbiotic bacteria survive in many distinct environments, including those encountered during the course of interaction with the host, by identifying and characterizing genes that are expressed in each environment. <strong>For our past work, click <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rjlab\/science\/what-we-used-to-study\/\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Beginning in 2006:\u00a0 The R-J lab began working the bacterium, <em>Sodalis glossinidius,<\/em>\u00a0 a facultative intracellular bacterium that is a secondary symbiont of the tsetse fly.\u00a0 We studied the the role and regulation of heme and iron tolerance mechanisms of <em>Sodalis.\u00a0 <\/em>We are completing work that addresses how <em>Sodalis <\/em>utilizes sugars, including the chitin-derived N-acetylglucosamine and have just received NIH funding in 2024 to more thoroughly investigate blood tolerance in <em>Sodalis.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Beginning in 2023:\u00a0 The R-J lab is starting projects in the area of food microbiology, particularly fermentation and cheese production. We are interested in working with cheesemakers and other fermenters to explore interesting and potentially beneficial microbes in fermented foods and to explore the biology of these microbes.<\/p>\n<p>Work in the R-J lab has been supported by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nih.gov\/\">National Institutes of Health<\/a>, the Thomas F. Jeffress and Kate Miller Jeffress Memorial Trust, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/as.richmond.edu\/\">University of Richmond School of Arts and Science.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many bacteria are exposed to a variety of environments during their lifecycles.\u00a0 Particular signals in these environments may activate expression of genes that result in changes that allow the bacterium to cope more effectively with a specific environment.\u00a0 Past work &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rj\/research\/summary-of-current-research-interests\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1960,"featured_media":0,"parent":39,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-58","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1960"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58\/revisions\/297"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}