Dr. Cohen’s research involves microbial genetics, the molecular basis of the abilities of enteric bacteria to colonize the mammalian large intestine, and the molecular basis of bacterial pathogenesis. His laboratory focuses on bacterial genes involved in the abilities of both pathogenic and non-pathogenic Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium to colonize and/or cause intestinal disease. The goals of Dr. Cohen’s laboratory are to make effective bacterial vaccines (e.g. E. coli and S. typhimurium) and to construct commensal E. coli strains that can prevent E. coli pathogens (e.g. O157:H7 strains) from colonizing.

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