University of California, Berkeley | Plant & Microbial Biology
MTaga
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Michi
Taga
Microbial Interactions, Cofactor Synthesis
- Principal Investigator
Professor, Plant & Microbial Biology, UC Berkeley
Email:
taga@berkeley.edu
Ph.D. Molecular Biology Princeton University, 2003
B.A. Biology Carleton College, 1998
Michi Taga received her Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from Princeton University, where she investigated the function of the quorum sensing autoinducer AI-2 in the laboratory of Bonnie Bassler. She conducted postdoctoral research on bacteria-host interactions and vitamin B12 biosynthesis in the laboratory of Graham Walker at MIT and has been a faculty member at UC Berkeley since 2009.