Faculty
Tenured/Tenure Accruing Faculty
- Dr. Valerie de Crecy-Lagard - Comparative genomic, bacterial genetics, experimental evolution, genetic code.
- Dr. Jamie S. Foster - Communication in microbial mat symbioses; microbial adaption and response to extreme environmental stresses.
- Dr. Claudio Gonzalez - Gene expression and regulation; protein engineering, enzyme production and characterization.
- Dr. William Gurley - Functional analysis of heat shock transcription factors.
- Dr. Lonnie Ingram - Genetic improvement of alcohol fermentation.
- Dr. Howard Johnson - Structure-function studies of lymphokines (gamma interferon,interleukins).
- Dr. Byung-Ho Kang - Plant Cell Biology, Cellular Electron Microscopy/Tomography, Bio-imaging technology.
- Dr. Nemat O. Keyhani - Molecular mechanisms of fungal pathogenesis, development of molecular sensors.
- Dr. Peter E. Kima - Host-parasite interactions. Mechanisms by which intracellular pathogens evade activation of the cell mediated immune response.
- Dr. Joseph Larkin III - Immunology. The role of regulatory T cells in immune system tolerance.
- Dr. Graciela Lorca - Transcriptional regulation, comparative genomics.
- Dr. Volker Mai - Molecular biology applications in the public health sciences, beneficial and pathogenic microbesm, and cancer epidemiology.
- Dr. Zhonglin Mou - Plant Defense responses.
- Dr. Julie Maupin-Furlow - Genetics and biochemistry of ATP-dependent proteolysis.
- Dr. Wayne L. Nicholson - Bacterial spore resistance and longevity; Microoganism survival in extreme extraterrestrial environments.
- Dr. James Preston - Microbial genetics and biochemistry.
- Dr. K. T. Shanmugam - Genetics and regulation of nitrogen, hydrogen, and molybdate metabolism.
- Dr. Eric W. Triplett - Molecular microbial ecology, plant-microbe interactions.
- Dr. Nian Wang - Plant Pathology.
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Retired Faculty
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Affiliate Faculty
- Dr. Ernest Hiebert - Molecular biology of plant viruses.
- Dr. Shouguang Jin - Microbiology, type II secretion systems.
- Dr. Raphael Katzen - Biomass conversion to ethanol.
- Dr. James Maruniak - Virology, insect pathology. Insect virus molecular biology and phylogenetics.
- Dr. Ayalew Mergia - Molecular biology of retroviruses; Gene therapy.
- Dr. Andrew Ogram - Bacterial genetics of pesticide degradation, plasmid ecology.
- Dr. Gary E. Rodrick - Applied research concerning the recovery and control of public health important bacteria and parasites from seafood products.
- Dr. Anita C. Wright - Pathogenesis of food borne infections, particularly aquaculture-associated disease; the genetics of virulence factors with an emphasis on bacterial polysaccharides.
- Dr. Janet K. Yamamoto - Retrovirology and viral immunology with emphasis on AIDS vaccine development and antiviral therapy, cellular and transplantation immunology.
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