The Metis Center for Infrastructure and Sustainable Engineering at ASU was created to help designers of transportation and other infrastructure — including water and power delivery — better understand today's complexities and create integrated systems that are more effective and resilient.

We’ve long known that bacteria kill each other; it’s part of microbial life. But new research reveals something even more gruesome: Some bacteria don’t just kill their neighbors — they eat them. Understanding these microbial weapons could help researchers develop new disease-fighting tools and improve models of Earth’s climate system.