Bacterial physiology - Emory University
At Emory University, Dai worked on quantitative bacterial physiology and antibiotic-response research involving E. coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. His work focused on how bacterial physiological state affects chemical and antibiotic stress response, including protonophore-mediated dissipation of proton motive force, efflux-mediated feedback, intracellular drug-target kinetics, and population-level variability.
- Bacterial physiology
- Antibiotic response
- Proton motive force
- Efflux pumps
- Drug-target kinetics