PRISE Distinguished Speaker Series, Karine Gibbs

Professor Gibbs’s lab strives to harness P. mirabilis’s relative genetic simplicity and tractability to discern the molecular mechanisms underlying its self/non-self-recognition process. Their research leverages the bacterium’s sophisticated synthesis of sensing, signaling, and motility to advance understanding of the basic phenomena that give rise to social behaviors, such as cell-cell communication, cooperative migration, competition, and pathogenesis. Professor Gibbs’s research broadly addresses how cells define themselves, communicate their self-identity, and respond to others.