Gregory Kettler

Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Department of Biology
MIT 48-424
15 Vassar Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
Phone: 617-253-4124
Fax: 617-258-8850
Email: gkettler at mit.edu

Education:

2002 B.A. Biology, University of Chicago

Research Interests:
I am interested in how Prochlorococcus strains differ. What genes do they have in common, and how do the differences contribute to their adaptation to diverse environments? I am also interested in how a cell's metabolism is affected by viral infection. How does a phage keep a cell alive long enough to build more phage? I am using a computational approach to these questions. My hope is that they can be answered with the help of comparative genomics, metabolic network modeling, and the analysis of transcription data.