Graduate Field of Microbiology Faculty
| Beth A. Ahner | Detoxification mechanisms in aquatic microorganisms & phytoremediation of trace metal contaminants |
| Largus Angenent |
Bioenergy and Biofuels, digesters, microbial fuel cells |
| Esther R. Angert | Microbial ecology, microbial cellular biology, evolution of a novel bacterial developmental system and microbial phylogeny |
| Joel D. Baines | Assembly and replication of herpes simplex virus |
| Carl A. Batt | Biotechnology |
| Steven V. Beer | Plant pathology |
| Kathryn J. Boor | Food microbiology; food safety; food virulence determinants in Escherichia coli 0157:H7 and Listeria monocytogenes |
| Dwight D. Bowman | Biology of parasites, especially apicomplexan protozoa and nematodes |
| Daniel H. Buckley | Environmental genomics and microbial ecology of soils; ecological significance of microbial community structure and microbial diversity in soils |
| James W. Casey | Eukaryotic gene regulation; oncogenic transformation; molecular genetics, viral replication; viral pathogenesis |
| Ruth Collins |
Cell ultrastructure and signal transduction |
| Alan R. Collmer | Biotechnology; microbial genetics; phytobacteriology |
| Matthew DeLisa | Biotechnology; Biomolecular engineering and cellular machinery |
| Edward J. Dubovi | Animal virology; pathogenic microbiology |
| William C. Ghiorse | Environmental microbiology, microbial ecology, physiology, and biogeochemistry |
| James M. Gossett | Environmental engineering |
| Yong D. Hang | Biotechnology (located at the Geneva Campus) |
| Anthony G. Hay | Environmental microbiology; metabolism of man-made pollutants, with specific applications to environmental toxicology |
| John D. Helmann | RNA polymerase; transcriptional control in Bacillus subtilis; regulation of gene expression by metal ions |
| Ian Hewson |
Marine microbiology; biogeochemistry, diversity, and distribution of marine microorganism; metagenomics and metatranscriptomics |
| Ruth Ley |
Microbial ecology of the mammalian gut; host-microbial interactions and co-evolution |
| Leonard W. Lion | Environmental engineering; groundwater contamination; aquatic chemistry |
| Rosemary Loria | Molecular genetics and evolution of pathogenicity, Streptomyces molecular biology |
| Eugene L. Madsen | "who", "what", "how", "where", "when", and "why" of microbiological processes in water, soil, sediments, and ground water; biogeochemistry of naphthalene- and chlorinated solvent-contaminated aquifers |
| Hélène Marquis | Pathogenesis of Listeria monocytogenes, mechanisms of regulation of specific virulence factors, signaling during bacterial cell-to-cell spread. |
| Klaus Osterrieder | Molecular pathobiology of lytic and tumorigenic herpes virus infections |
| Alice Pell | Gastrointestinal/ruminal microbiology; tolerance of secondary plant compounds by ruminal bacteria especially proanthocyanidins (condensed tannins) and alkaloids found in legumes consumed by ruminants in the tropics |
| Joseph E. Peters | Chromosome integrity (Transposition; DNA Replication, Recombination and Repair); Functional Genomics |
| Ruth Richardson | Bioenvironmental engineering; application of molecular techniques to assist biodegradation processes; communication and cooperation in microbial communities |
| Jeffrey W. Roberts | Procaryotic gene expression; transcription mechanisms; control of DNA repair |
| David G. Russell | Interaction between intracellular pathogens and their host cell; biology of microbe/host interplay |
| Marci A.Scidmore | The biology of Intracellular Infection by the Chlamydia bacterium |
| James P. Shapleigh | Electron transport proteins of bacteria, in particular those proteins involved in the anaerobic respiration of nitrogen oxides |
| Michael L. Shuler | Biotechnology |
| Gary R. Whittaker | Influenza viruses, virus-cell interactions, nuclear transport |
| Martin Wiedmann | Molecular bacterial pathogenesis; evolution of bacterial pathogens; molecular epidemiology; molecular detection and typing methods; Listeria monocytogenes |
| David B. Wilson | Microbial biochemistry |
| Stephen C. Winans | Use Agrobacterium tumefaciens as a model to study how cells detect other cells; this plant pathogen detects a variety of chemical signal molecules released from host plant cells and also uses a type of bacterial pheromone called an autoinducer to estimate its population densities |
| Randy W. Worobo | Antimicrobial proteins and peptides (bacteriocins) that target food borne pathogens such as Listeria monocytogenes, Staphylococcus aureus, Clostridia spp., Salmonella and E. coli 0157-H7; genes responsible for export, maturation, induction and regulation of bacteriocins; production of multiple bacteriocins (located at the Geneva campus) |
| Joseph B. Yavitt | Ecology; microbial ecology; biogeochemistry; wetlands |
| Stephen H. Zinder | Our laboratory studies microorganisms, particularly anaerobes, which carry out chemical transformations. Present areas of interest include physiology and molecular biology of nitrogen fixation in methanogenic archaea and ecology and physiology of microbial reductive dechlorination of toxic chemicals |