Tropini Lab

In vitro host-bacterial analysis

Mechanistic analysis of the interaction between the host and microbiota
Spatial Organization of the Gut Microbiota

Understanding microbial communities in their environmental context
In vitro bacterial analysis

Mechanistic in vitro analysis of the bacterial response to changes in osmolality, pH, stiffness and other abiotic factors
Microfluidics studies of intestinal bacteria

Creating new technlogies for real-time analysis
Single-cell time-lapse imaging of intestinal bacteria

Assessing the dynamics of bacterial growth at the single-cell level
In vivo and In vitro models

Mechanistic analysis of host-microbiota interactions
In vivo imaging

Studying the biogeography of the gut during inflammatory diseases
High throughput analysis

Omics and parallelization
In vivo imaging

In situ analysis of host-microbiota interactions
In vitro analysis

Mechanistic analysis of microbial response to changes in the physical environment
Coliphage attacking E. coli

Understanding the effect of abiotic perturbations on the entire microbial ecosystem

UBC School of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Microbiology and Immunology

Our lab is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam people.