• PhD Genetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• MSc Genetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• MSc Biotechnology (Bioengineering), Harvard University Extension
• BSc Molecular Biology & Bioinformatics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Research in the Chevrette Lab is focused broadly on secondary metabolism and how it relates to interspecies interactions.

We study secondary metabolism…​

in evolution

• Genome mining, including the development of new computational tools to identify and characterize biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) in microbial genomes

• Diversity and distribution of BGCs and biosynthetic enzymes across evolutionary space

• Ancestral reconstruction of biosynthetic domains, genes, and pathways

• Evolutionary dynamics of enzyme specificity and promiscuity

in natural systems

• Secondary metabolites and BGCs…​

  • from host-associated microbiomes, including amphibian skin, insect exoskeleton, and the rhizosphere

  • from soil bacteria, including those from Tiny Earth (see https://tinyearth.wisc.edu)

in experimental systems

• Metatranscriptomics and metametabolomics of synthetic microbial communities

• Genetic and regulatory mechanisms of secondary metabolite expression and interspecies interactions

• Specificity of interactions across synthetic microbial communities

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