Research Interests

• Developing high-throughput functional discovery platform for thousands of microbial genes, phage genes and extending it to metagenomic samples  
• Discovery of bacteriophage-host interaction determinants, mechanistic insights into antibiotic resistance and phage resistance, and how they impact host fitness
• Approaches for doing esigned manipulation of microbial communities  
• Engineering of phages, phage particles for diverse applications
• Rational design of phage cocktails with antibiotics for phage therapy applications
• Synthetic genetic parts for phylogenetically distinct and industrially important microbes and rules for their functional composition.

PRESS:

Cataloging Nature’s Hidden Arsenal: Viruses that Infect Bacteria

https://naturemicrobiologycommunity.nature.com/posts/a-tale-of-tailocins-bacterial-stabbing-tools

https://mammoth.bio/2020/10/28/mammoth-interviews-vivek-k-mutalik-phd-scientist-at-lbnl-and-co-founder-of-felix-biotechnology/

https://phage.directory/capsid/interview-vivek-mutalik

How Do You Fight Antibiotic Resistance? Ask a Virus.

Dub-seq Flagship Paper Published in Nature Communications

Dub-seq Wins 2017 R&D100 Award

Predictability: The Brass Ring For Synthetic Biology

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