Christopher J. Marx

 Assistant Professor, Organismic & Evolutionary Biology
 

• Harvard University Center for the Environment
• Future of Energy at Harvard
• Dept. of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
• Microbial Sciences Initiative

Research Interests

Experimental evolution of microbes to explore the systems-level function and optimization of complex biological networks.

Environmental Courses

OEB 192: Microbial Evolution
OEB 365: Evolution of Microbes

Related Publications

Burkholderia xenovorans LB400 harbors a multi-replicon, 9.73 Mbp genome shaped for versatility. (2006)
Flux Analysis Uncovers Key Role of Functional Redundancy in Formaldehyde Metabolism. (2005)
Analysis of gene islands involved in methanopterin-linked C 1 transfer reactions, deduction of novel C 1 transfer genes, and new insights into the evolution of "archaeal" genes in bacteria. (2005)
Multiple formaldehyde oxidation pathways in Burkholderia fungorum. (2004)
The enigmatic Planctomyces may hold a key to the origins of methanogenesis and methylotrophy. (2004)