funding

Our lab is funded through a variety of sources, and we are grateful to the following groups in their support of our various projects.

Center for Evolutionary Science (CES)
Supporting Thomas’ work on the evolutionary pressures of conjugation in bacterial populations, under a Pilot Grant (2025)

Resnick Sustainability Insitute (RSI)
Supporting Thomas’ work on plasmid dynamics in microbial populations, under an Explorer Grant (2025)

Center for Environmental Microbial Interactions (CEMI)
Supporting Thomas’ work on engineering new plasmid population dynamics, under a Pilot Grant (2024)

National Institute of Aging (NIA)
Supporting our work on mitochondrial DNA quality control, aging and Alzheimer’s disease

Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration (DARPA)
Supporting our work on engineering the plant mitochondrial genome

California Cherry Board and the WA Tree Fruit Research Commission
Supporting our work on gene drive for population alteration and suppression

Caltech Division of BBE
Supporting our work on the mitochondrial basis of aging and quality control

Private Philanthropists Charlie Trimble and George Rappolt

National Insitute of Health (NIH)
Supporting the work of Tobin Ivy, under grant 5T32GM007616-39

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) OB428/1-1
Supporting the work of Georg Oberhofer, under a Postdoctoral Fellowship