Research
Cell division, chromosome segregation, and the control of cell shape are some of the most fundamental problems in biology. The Errington lab uses an array of biochemical, genetical and microscopic methods to study these problems in the bacterium Bacillus subtilis. B. subtilis is an extremely tractable experimental system, being the best characterized bacterium after E. coli. B. subtilis also offers the advantage of having two distinct cell cycle processes.
