Welcome!
The lab is moving east where Chris Todd Hittinger will serve as the Eddie Goldenberg Research Chair of Canada in Biodiscovery, Biodesign, and Bioproduction at the University of Guelph, one of Canada’s top universities for biotechnology and agricultural sciences. Thus, the lab will no longer be recruiting at UW. If you are interested in UW specifically, please consider applying to the labs of my colleagues in programs where I was a trainer. If you are interested in my lab specifically, we are recruiting for the new lab at all levels! It has been an honor and privilege to start my independent career at UW-Madison, and I look forward to continuing to see the outstanding science produced by this great university.
The Hittinger Lab uses yeast carbon metabolism as a model for basic bioenergy, biomedical, and evolutionary research. Our research interests and integrated approaches are at the intersection of biodiversity; biochemistry; biotechnology; and functional, ecological, and evolutionary genomics. Ongoing projects are focused on understanding the origin and evolution of aerobic fermentation, yeast ecology and biodiversity, genetic variation in natural and industrial yeasts, genome engineering and synthetic biology, and the metabolism of alternative carbon sources (e.g. galactose, maltose, xylose) that may have bioenergy and brewing applications.
To view a Genetics Colloquium given by Dr. Hittinger, visit The genomic making of metabolic niche breadth in a eukaryotic subphylum
