Caetano Antunes

Caetano Antunes
  • Assistant Professor
  • MOLECULAR BIOSCIENCES

Contact Info

Haworth Hall, Room 4031
1200 Sunnyside Ave.
Lawrence, KS 66045

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Education —

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia, 2012, Vancouver, BC, CA
Ph.D., University of Iowa, 2007, Iowa City, IA
M.S., Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 2002, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
B.S., Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 2000, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Research —

Caetano´s research group is interested in the role of small molecules in host-microbe interactions. In particular, they study the impact of microbiome-derived small molecules on bacterial pathogen gene expression and behavior. Caetano and his group have shown that the human gut is teeming with small molecules, and that the gut metabolome controls expression of various virulence attributes in enteric pathogens.