Our group is highly interdisciplinary in the nature of our research efforts. Our main focus is to develop novel electrochemical techniques to investigate new frontiers in microbiology, such as the social behavior of microbes, otherwise known as quorum sensing. This collective behavior of bacteria, or quorum sensing, plays an important role in forming biofilm, which ultimately helps bacteria collectively overcome many adverse environmental conditions, including making the microbes resistant to antibiotics. We are interested in using new electrochemical techniques such as scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM) to study the microbial metabolites in real-time and in 3D space to elucidate the microbial behavior in the context of biofilm related diseases (cystic fibrosis) and infections in/on biomedical devices (catheters, artificial heart valves etc.). These findings will ultimately lead us to design the next generation smart biomedical devices
