 Faruque has proposed models to explain the role of environmental and host factors and lytic bacteriophages in the ecology of "Vibrio cholerae", that supports a self-limiting nature of seasonal cholera epidemics.Currently his team is conducting cutting edge research in CRISPR-Cas systems carried by bacterial viruses or bacteriophages.It is vital to generate more knowledge on the underlying diversity and functions of this system to fully realize the potential of technologies like CRISPR gene editing.