Godoy Laboratory

The Godoy Lab seeks to understand the the mechanism(s) regulating the DNA damage response in bacteria. This mediates survival, antibiotic resistance, and bacterial development. We use as model systems opportunistic pathogens known to mediate persisten infections in hospitals, and in environmental isolates from the the extreme environments of the Atacama Desert and the Patagonia in Chile.

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  • Veronica Godoy-Carter

    The Godoy lab is interested in investigating the regulation of the bacterial DNA damage responses (DDR) and the mutagenic Y-family DNA polymerases that are part of the DDR. These evolutionarily conserved DNA polymerases are prone to making errors when copying DNA that has been damaged. However, the activity of these DNA polymerases permits cell survival. […]