Dustin Van Hofwegen

Assistant Professor of Biology & Biochemistry, University of Northwestern, St. Paul

Dustin Van Hofwegen, a biology professor at Azusa Pacific University in California, specializes in microbial genomics, bacterial evolution, and molecular mechanisms of gene regulation in bacteria. His research explores the role of post-transcriptional gene regulation mediated by small RNAs in bacterial model systems E. coli and Yersinia. He received his PhD from the University of Idaho and did postdoctoral research at Rocky Mountain Laboratories, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

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Dustin Van Hofwegen on Engineering and Evolution in Lilliput

Dustin Van Hofwegen
June 14, 2021
On today’s ID the Future we go behind the scenes at the recent Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, where host Jonathan Witt sat down with Dustin Van Hofwegen, a biology professor at Azusa Pacific University in California. The two discuss the private conference, which brought together biologists and engineers to study how engineering principles and a design perspective can and are being applied to biology — to plants and animals but also to Van Hofwegen’s area of focus, the Lilliputian realm of microbial biology. The two quickly move into a conversation about Van Hofwegen’s article in the Journal of Bacteriology, co-authored with Carolyn Hovde and Scott Minnich, based on research they did at the University of Idaho. As Van Hofwegen explains, the research focused on one of …