Research and Teaching Interests
The Cardona lab is interested in the molecular mechanisms that regulate bacterial growth with the long-term goal of controlling bacteria in infection conditions or during biotechnological applications. One project involves genomic exploration of essential process in bacteria with the goal of predicting antibiotic activity of novel small molecules and identifying their mechanism of action. A second project is related to the use of CRISPR interference for exploring bacterial metabolic pathways relevant to bioremediation.