Gregor, Rachel

Rachel Gregor, Assistant Professor (starting March 2025)

B.Sc. and Ph.D (Ben-Gurion University), Postdoc (MIT)

Principal Investigator, Microbial Chemical Ecology Lab and BioZone- Centre for Applied Bioscience and Bioengineering

Understanding and engineering environmental microbial communities through their chemistry.

Keywords: untargeted metabolomics, environmental and marine microbiology, drug discovery, natural products, mass spectrometry, high-throughput analysis, multi-omics, marine carbon cycle, microbiome engineering, microbial ecology.

Email: rgregor@mit.edu

New Projects Available

  • High-throughput mapping of specialized metabolite production by marine bacteria
  • Metabolic regulation of the bacterial degradation of marine polysaccharides

Accepting graduate students? Yes

  • PhD & MASc