Faculty
Lisa Alvarez-Cohen (Dept. of Civil Engineering) Application of biological processes for the elimination of environmental contaminants. |
Jill Banfield (Dept. of Earth and Planetary Science) Our geomicrobiological research focuses on the fate of metals in the environment, with emphasis on microbe-mineral interactions that lead to mineral dissolution and precipitation. |
James Berger (Dept. of Molecular & Cell Biology) Structural and functional studies of protein/protein and protein/nucleic acid assemblies from microbial organisms. |
Carolyn Bertozzi (Depts. of Chemistry and Molecular and Cell Biology) My group studies cell surface interactions that contribute to human health and disease with specific projects in the areas of cancer, inflammation and mycobacterial infection. We are particularly interested in glycolipid virulence factors in Mycobacterium tuberculosis that contribute to host-pathogen interactions and pathology. |
Michael Botchan (Dept. of Molecular & Cell Biology) Strategies that animal viruses use to replicate in somatic cell. In particular DNA replication and gene expression mechanisms of DNA viruses that infect mammalian cells. |
Thomas Bruns (Dept. of Plant & Microbial Biology) Ectomycorrhizal ecology, fungal molecular systematics. |
Bob B. Buchanan (Dept. of Plant & Microbial Biology) Microbial physiology and biochemistry especially pertaining to bioremediation. |
Gertrude Buehring (School of Public Health) Bovine leukimia virus: its cellular effects and the possibility that it might cause human breast cancer. |
Richard Calendar (Dept. of Molecular & Cell Biology) Genectics and molecular biology of bacteriophages. Using site specific recombination in plant genetics. |
Zacheus Cande (Dept. of Molecular & Cell Biology and Plant & Microbial Biology) Mechanism of chromosome segregation during mitosis and meiosis. Analysis of the evolution of the cytoskeleton and mitosis using the basal eukaryote, Giardia intestinalis as a model organism. Analysis of meiotic prophase chromosome behavior in fission yeast and maize. |
Ignacio Chapela (Dept. of Environmental Science, Policy, & Management) Use of fungal components for pharmaceutical and agrochemical human use, development of bio control agent and the sustainable management of forests. |
Doug Clark (Dept. of Chemical Engineering) Physiological and biochemistry of extremophilic micoorganisms, particularly extremophiles from high temperature pressure environments. |
John Coates (Dept. of Plant & Microbial Biology) |
Laurent Coscoy (Dept. of Molecular & Cell Biology) the molecular mechanisms of immune evasion employed by KSHV (human herpesvirus 8). |
Nick Cozzarelli (Dept. of Molecular & Cell Biology) Mechanisms of chromosome partitioning and on topoisomerases. |
Mary Firestone (Dept. of Environmental Science, Policy, & Management) Physiological ecology of soil microorganisms; emphasis on nitrogen transformation trace gas production, water realtions, and biodegradation. |
Suzanne Fleiszig (School of Optometry) We study pseudomonas aeruginosa, a bacterium that causes human disease in compromised individuals. The research involves studies of host/pathogen interactions and the aim is to develop new methods for prevention and treatment of infection. |
Louise Glass (Dept. of Plant & Microbial Biology) Molecular genetics of sexual development and programmed cell death in filamentous fungi. |
Eva Harris (School of Public Health) Mechanism of dengue virus infection and pathogenesis: Molecular Epidemiology of infectious diseases. |
Andrew Jackson (Dept. of Plant & Microbial Biology) Genetics, replication and pathogenesis of RNA viruses infecting plants. |
David Jenkins (Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering) Microbiology of biological wastewater treatment processes including factors affecting the growth of nuisance microorganisms and the growth and metabolism of microorganisms that accumulate polyphosphates. |
Caroline Kane (Dept. of Molecular & Cell Biology) Gene regulation in eukaryotic microbes at the level of transcript elongation using biochemistry molecular biology and genetics. Both RNA polymerase 11 and factors that impact the elongation process are under scrutiny. |
Jay Keasling (Dept. of Chemical Engineering) Metabolic engineering of microorganisms for environmentally friendly synthesis of products or for biodegradation of environmental contaminants. |
Daniel Koshland (Dept. of Molecular & Cell Biology) Structure function relationship in receptors and bioengineering of novel proteins. |
Sydney Kustu (Dept. of Plant & Microbial Biology) Regulation and integration of bacterial metabolism particularly the nitrogen metabolism of enteric bacteria. |
Steve Lindow (Dept. of Plant & Microbial Biology) Molecular and ecological studies of plant associated bacteria. |
Sangwei Lu (School of Public Health) Pathogenesis and stress response of Salmonella serovars; foodborne diseases. |
Fenyong Liu (School of Public Health) Biology and therapeutic intervention of human herpes viruses. |
Terry Machen (Dept. of Molecular & Cell Biology) Interactions between Pseudomonas aeruginosa and airway epithelial cell in cystic fibrosis. |
Kris Niyogi (Dept. of Plant & Microbial Biology) Molecular genetics and ecophysiology of eukaryotic microalgae. |
Daniel Portnoy (Dept. of Molecular & Cell Biology and School of Public Health) Molecular and cellular basis of microbial pathogenesis. |
Lee Riley (School of Public Health) Our research links epidemiology with molecular biology to characterize pathogenesis of infectious agents of major international importance, including tuberculosis and diarrheal diseases. |
Jasper Rine (Dept. of Molecular & Cell Biology) Genetics and functional genomics of fungi. |
Kathleen Ryan (Dept. of Plant & Microbial Biology)Controlled proteolysis and protein localization in cell cycle control and asymmetric cell division in Caulobacter. |
Randy Schekman (Dept. of Molecular & Cell Biology) The mechanism of membrane assembly vesicular traffic in the secretory pathway of unicellular and multicellular eukaryotic cells. |
George Sensabaugh (School of Public Health) Biochemical and epidemological genetics related to problems of human health and diseases. |
Brian Staskawicz (Dept. of Plant & Microbial Biology) Molecular genetics of plant pathogen interactions. |
Richard Stephens (School of Public Health) Pathogenic mechanisms of intracellular agents that cause infections disease. |
John Taylor (Dept. of Plant & Microbial Biology) Molecular evolutionary biology of fungi. |
Jeremy Thorner (Dept. of Molecular & Cell Biology) The biochemistry, molecular genetics, and cell biology of signal transduction processes in the budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. |
Loy Volkman (Dept. of Plant & Microbial Biology) Baculovirus induced pathogenesis and cytoskeletal interactions. |
Pat Zambryski (Dept. of Plant & Microbial Biology) Agrobacterium-plant cell interaction. Arabidopsis (flower development), Plasmodesmata structure and function. |
David Zusman (Dept. of Molecular & Cell Biology) Cell-cell communication and signal transduction, and regulation of gene expression, in the fruiting bacterium Myxococcus xanthus. |
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