November 16, 2024

Zach Celentano, a second year Biochemistry PhD student in the van Kessel Lab, recently published a paper titled Quorum sensing in Vibrio controls carbon metabolism to optimize growth in changing environmental conditions in PLOS Biology. These findings provide valuable insights into the evolutionary advantages of quorum sensing, highlighting the role of QS in optimizing gene expression related to methionine and tetrahydrofolate synthesis. Congrats Zach on advancing our understanding of microbial ecology!