Welcome to the Engelstädter Lab

Microbial evolutionary dynamics

Welcome to the Engelstädter Lab, part of the School of the Environment at The University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.

Our lab studies how bacteria adapt to their environments. Current research themes include the evolution of antibiotic resistance, microbial recombination and host-parasite coevolution. We use a wide range of methodological approaches, including mathematical models, computer simulations and lab experiments.

Petri dish with the words ALJE LAB and a smiley face written in coloured bacterial coloniesWe share our lab with Dr Andrew Letten, whose group is also working on antibiotic resistance in bacteria but more from an ecological angle. Together we form the ALJE lab.