How Bacteria Get Into Shape
Kerwyn Casey Huang - Professor of Bioengineering and of Microbiology & Immunology
Bio-X Affiliated Faculty
The Huang group employs diverse interdisciplinary methods of inquiry to understand the relationships among cell shape detection, determination, and maintenance in bacteria.
Stanford Bio-X Seed Grants
Engineering the outside of the cell from within: Cytoskeletal control of cell wall structure and mechanics
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 6 - 2012
Precise Design of Synthetic Multicellular Communities using Optical Control
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 5 – 2010
Other Stanford Bio-X Supported Research
Research News
Scientists get a new view of digestion
May 23, 2023 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members KC Huang, David Relman, Susan Holmes, and George Triadafilopoulos,...
"Bellymount" for a See-Through Fly
January 27, 2020 - PLOS Biology
New technology from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Lucy O'Brien and KC Huang, Bio-X Fellow Andrés Aranda...
Bacterial armor could be a new target for antibiotics
July 18, 2018 - Stanford Engineering
A thin membrane around some bacterial cell walls has structural properties critical for survival, find...