Gürol Süel

Molecular Biology

Professor

Research Focus
Molecular and cellular interactions and their impact on emergent dynamics in microbial systems, ion channel mediated electrical signaling in bacteria

Research Summary

Dr. Süel's lab is fascinated by how molecular and cellular interactions can give rise to emergent dynamics in microbial systems. In particular, their goal is to understand how dynamics at the cellular and population level improve bacterial fitness. They typically develop and utilize quantitative biology approaches to inform and constrain mathematical modeling. They use modeling to integrate across molecular, single-cell, and population-level scales to uncover fundamental principles of bacterial physiology, and more recently bacterial electrophysiology.

Gurol Suel
Lab Website
Email:
gsuel@ucsd.edu

Bio

Dr. Süel received his Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics from the University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center in the laboratory of Dr. Rama Ranganathan and conducted his postdoctoral studies in the laboratory of Dr. Michael Elowitz in the Department of Biology and Applied Physics at the California Institute of Technology.