Eric Alm, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Lab web site
E-mail: ejalm@mit.edu
Office: 48-317
Phone: (617) 253-2726
Administrative Assistant: Kristine Marzilli
Office: NE47-257
Phone: 617-324-4931
Education
- B.S., 1995, University of Illinois, Urbana
- M.S., 1997, University of California, Riverside
- Ph.D., 2001, University of Washington, Seattle
- Postdoc, 2005, University of California, Berkeley/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Research Focus
Research in my group includes both computational/theoretical and experimental approaches to understanding the evolution of microorganisms, emphasizing a 'systems-level' perspective. Some areas of special interest include:
- Tools for detecting natural selection in microbes
- The evolutionary origin of gene families
- Mining metagenomic sequence data
- Experimental evolution of microbes
- Modeling bacterial ecology
- Gene regulatory networks in bacteria
- Protein structure and design
Teaching Interests
I have enjoyed teaching a variety of classes at MIT, spanning my own diverse interests in microbiology, computer algorithms, and thermodynamics of biomolecules. I am currently looking forward to teaching a new class on microbial evolution and genetics.
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