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Will Payne
Auburn University
Brian Bachmann lab
In pursuit of natural product discovery, he is investigating the secondary metabolism capabilities of predatory myxobacteria . The research focuses on prey-dependent tailoring of metabolite expression and the regulatory systems underlying specialized predation.