Interview With Professor Conway

Abstract

Professor Tyrrell Conway, Ph.D., is the regents professor and head of the microbiology and molecular genetics department at Oklahoma State University. Professor Tyrrell Conway currently has about eleven undergraduate researchers working under him on his two main projects at this time. His current areas of study consist of two main goals. One goal is figuring out how Escherichia coli (a type of bacteria) gets its nutrients in the intestine and the other primary goal is comparing how different bacteria in the gut use their genes to compete with each other. All that said the main publication that was discussed during our interview was Professor Tyrrell Conway’s publication entitled Quantitative bacterial transcriptomics with RNA-seq, this article was co-published by James P. Creecy in 2015.