Microbial communities down to a single-cell level
Current lab members.
The Kuchina lab is interested in technology development and studying microbial behavior on a single-cell level.
Check out our peer-reviewed science and preprints of our latest work.
We are always looking for new lab members, collaborators, and research opportunities.
Dr. Anna Kuchina holds an affiliate appointment in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Washington. She is also a member of the UW MolES Institute and the UW Center for Synthetic Biology.
The first paper out of the lab came out in Nature Protocols with detailed step-by-step guide to performing bacterial single-cell RNA sequencing using common lab equipment. Congratulations Karl Gaisser and Sophie Skloss!
Bacteria are much more than single-celled organisms swimming around. Bacteria also form communities called biofilm, and work together to maintain the microbial community. Biofilm is just one research area of ISB’s Kuchina Lab. In this Research Roundtable presentation, ISB Assistant Professor Dr. Anna Kuchina details her work studying biofilms.
Anna Kuchina is a co-PI of a UW-led five-year, $15 million Department of Energy grant that will enable an interdisciplinary team of synthetic biologists to engineer microbial genomes that transform carbon dioxide into high-value chemicals. Specifically, Kuchina will work on multiplexed single-cell transcriptomic profiling of CRISPR-engineered bacteria to determine if the reprogrammed cells behave as intended.