Understanding and engineering bacteriophages by exploring sequence-function landscapes

Phil is a postdoctoral fellow in the Raman lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he studies bacteriophage host interactions. He investigates how genetic perturbations influence the sequence-function landscape of phages and their bacterial hosts. His current research extends his doctoral work using large unbiased libraries of phage variants with the goal of engineering programmable synthetic phages for diverse biotechnology applications.