Salim Timo Islam

Research Interests

• Bacteria–substratum interactions
• Mechanism of polysaccharide assembly-and-secretion
• Outer-membrane dynamics
• Cellular (kin) recognition

Current Research Projects

• Extracellular matrix polysaccharide assembly-and-secretion mechanism
• Mechanism of bacterial focal adhesion-based gliding motility in Myxococcus xanthus
• Click chemistry-based studies of outer-membrane dynamism in metabolically labelled bacteria
• Determinants of self vs non-self recognition in bacteria

Tools and Expertises

• Bacteriology
• Biochemistry
• Molecular biology
• Metabolic labelling & click chemistry
• Live single-cell microscopy & tracking (fluorescence & bright field)
• Fluorescent protein localization
• Microfluidics
• Integral membrane protein overexpression
• Membrane protein topology mapping