David A. Baltrus PhD

David is an evolutionary biologist interested in how bacteria adapt to new environments and novel hosts. His research group is focused on identifying genes that enable new interactions and investigating how these genes evolve across bacterial species. He completed his B.A. at the University of Delaware in 2001 Ph.D. at the University of Oregon in 2006. After completing an NIH-funded postdoctoral fellowship at UNC-Chapel Hill, he joined the faculty in the School of Plant Sciences at the University of Arizona in 2011.