Department Research & Teaching Overview
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Biomass Deconstruction by Fungi; Fungal and Neurodegenerative Disease; Biomaterials Structural Durability
Physiology and ecology of hyperthermophilic archaea; Geomicrobiology of geothermal environments
Parasitology, the replication and repair of mitochondrial DNA (kinetoplast DNA network) in African trypanosomes
Systems Biology Approach to Optimization of Bioremediation and Microbial Fuel Cells and Physiology and Ecology of Anaerobes
Mycobacterial Pathogenesis: Glycobiology, Biochemistry, and Cell Biology
Molecular Evolution and Population Genomics of Arthropod-borne Microbial Pathogens
Entry, survival, and host range of the obligate intracellular pathogens, Chlamydiaceae
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Recent Publications
Upcoming Seminars
Patrick Pearson
Can an Antifibrinolytic Impact the Dissemination of Borrelia burgdorferi in vivo?
Malavika Prithviraj
The Role of Polyprenol Biosynthesis in the maintenance of Mycobacterial Membrane Domain
William Rodriguez
A Shift in the Tide: Characterizing the Mechanism of Action of C19ORF66 against KSHV Lytic Reactivation