Our lab focuses on exploring the vast chemical space that exists within biological systems, especially in the microbial world, using the tools of mechanistic enzymology, analytical chemistry, bacterial genetics, and synthetic co-cultures.

Microbes have evolved over billions of years to thrive in varied environmental niches, a capacity enabled by a staggering diversity of metabolic reactions and the production of a rich repertoire of biomolecules. Using vitamins, the Hazra lab investigates the genetic pathways, molecular mechanisms, and enzymatic processes involved in metabolism and cross-talk within microbial systems.