Department of Microbiology Faculty
| Esther R. Angert | Microbial ecology, microbial cellular biology, evolution of a novel bacterial developmental system and microbial phylogeny |
| William C. Ghiorse | Environmental microbiology, microbial ecology, physiology, and biogeochemistry |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| Susan M. Merkel | Coordinate and teach General Microbiology Laboratory (BioMI 291), which teaches basic principles and techniques of laboratory practice in microbiology. Also involved in an international research project on coral reef diseases. |
| Joseph E. Peters | Chromosome integrity (Transposition; DNA Replication, Recombination and Repair); Functional Genomics |
| Carole C. Rehkugler | Teaches General Microbiology Laboratory (Biomi 291). This lab course teaches the basic principles and techniques of laboratory practice in microbiology |
| James B. Russell | Biochemistry, physiology, and taxonomy of rumen microorganisms and use this information to model rumen microbial ecology and fermentation |
| James P. Shapleigh | Electron transport proteins of bacteria, in particular those proteins involved in the anaerobic respiration of nitrogen oxides |
| 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 |
| 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 |