:: Faculty Listing ::


J.M. Lopes, Department Head & Professor. Regulation of Gene Expression in Yeast.

J. Blanchard, Associate Professor. Bioinformatics, cell modeling, evolution.

S. Goodwin, Dean, College of Natural Sciences. Ecology and Physiology of Microorganisms in Anaerobic Ecosystems.

K. Griffith, Assistant Professor. Regulation of the Quorum Response in Bacillus subtilis.

E.A. Hamilton, Lecturer and Director of Microbiology Laboratory Teaching Services.

J.F. Holden, Associate Professor. Physiology and ecology of hyperthermophilic archaea, geomicrobiology of deep-sea hydrothermal environments.

M.M. Klingbeil, Assistant Professor. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, the replication and repair of mitochondrial DNA (kinetoplast DNA network) in African trypanosomes.

S.B. Leschine, Professor and Fifth Year Master's Program Coordinator. Microbial Physiology and Diversity: Cellulose and Chitin Decomposition, Biofilms on Natural Polymers, Fuels from Biomass.

D. R. Lovley, Distinguished University Professor. Systems Biology Approach to Optimization of Bioremediation and Microbial Fuel Cells and Physiology and Ecology of Anaerobes.

E. Martz, Professor Emeritus. Visualization and bioinformatics of 3D macromolecular structure in education and research.

K. Nevin, Research Assistant Professor. Microbial Fuel Cells Biology.

L.C. Norkin, Professor Emeritus. Virology: Analysis of the Interaction of DNA Tumor Virus SV40 with Permissive and Semipermissive cells.

K.R. Nüsslein, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director. Microbial ecology of terrestrial and aquatic environments; relating environmental influences to community structure and function.

S. Sandler, Professor. The Genetics of Recombination and DNA Replication in Bacteria and Archaea.

E.S. Stuart, Associate Professor. Microbial inclusions, mechanisms of infection and the generation of protective immunity.

S.C. Thibodo, Undergraduate Program Director and Lecturer

W.C. Webley, Assistant Professor. Entry, survival, and host range of the obligate intracellular pathogens, Chlamydiaceae.

Adjunct Faculty

Note: Adjunct faculty are located in Departments other than Microbiology but participate in the Microbiology Graduate Program.

C. Baldwin, Adjunct Professor. Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences. Cellular Immunity: Intracellular Microbes and gamma/delta T Cells.

J.P. Burand, Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Plant, Soil, and Insect Sciences. Baculoviruses: Host-Virus Interactions.

D.R. Cooley, Adjunct Associate Professor. Department of Plant, Soil and Insect Sciences. Plant pathogen ecology and development of environmentally sound plant disease management practices, including integrated pest managment and sustainable agricultural systems.

R. Guerrero, Adjunct Professor. University of Barcelona, Spain

W.J. Manning, Adjunct Professor. Department of Plant, Soil and Insect Sciences. Air Pollution Biology; Effects of air pollutants on plant growth and development, mycorrhizal formation and root diseases; biology and ecology of soilborne fungi.

L. Margulis Adjunct Professor. Department of Geosciences. Microbial Evolution and Organelle Heredity.

S.T. Petsch, Adjunct Assistant Professor. Department of Geosciences. Biogeochemistry, Organic Geochemistry, Geomicrobiology.

S.M. Rich, Adjunct Assistant Professor. Department of Plant, Soil and Insect Sciences. Molecular Evolution and Population Genomics of Arthropod-borne Microbial Pathogens.

M.A. Riley, Adjunct Professor. Department of Biology. In Vitro Generation of Novel Antimicrobials, Colicin Molecular Evolution, Enteric Bacteriocin Evolution, Molecular Ecology of Colicins, Molecular Evolution of Experimental Populations, Gene Trees, Genomics and a Microbial Species Concept.

R.M. Weis, Adjunct Associate Professor. Department of Chemistry. The structure of and function of biological membranes including transmembrane signaling mechanisms.

H. Xiao, Adjunct Assistant Professor. Department of Food Science. Diet-based strategies for cancer prevention.


 

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