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Terry Hwa is a Distinguished Professor and the Presidential Chair II in the Department of Physics at the University of California, San Diego, with a joint appointment in the Section of Molecular Biology within the Division of Biological Sciences. He is trained in theoretical physics and initially entered biology to study genomics and biomolecular interactions as well as combinatorial gene regulation. Over the years, he launched a microbiology wet-lab that adopted a unique quantitative approach to examine bacterial physiology. His lab has established a series of bacterial growth laws and formulated principles regarding proteomic resource allocation. The studies from Hwa’s lab have led to a theory of bacterial growth control that quantitatively predicts bacterial behaviors, gene expression, and responses to various environmental and genetic perturbations, which addresses several long-standing mysteries in microbiology. The Hwa lab continues to extend this physiological approach to characterize bacterial species both individually and in a consortium, aiming to uncover the underlying principles that govern the spatiotemporal dynamics of microbial communities and to apply these principles to synthetic biology applications.
University of California, San Diego • La Jolla, CA
Joined the physics faculty and launched a microbiology biology wet-lab in the early 2000s.
Administered by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Curricular groups include Climate-Ocean-Atmosphere (COAP), Geosciences (GEO), and Ocean Biosciences (OBP).