While faculty are grouped by one major research focus, most work across many of these areas. Please see the individual lab pages for more details.
Applied Microbiology – The application of microbes to solve problems in agriculture and industry
- Beth Ahner -- detoxification mechanisms; phytoremediation
- Carl Batt -- biotechnology
- Matthew DeLisa -- biotechnology; biomolecular engineering
- Hening Lin -- chemistry, biology, and application of enzymes
- Leonard Lion -- groundwater contamination; aquatic chemistry
- Alice Pell -- gastrointestinal/ruminal microbiology
- Ruth Richardson -- bioenvironmental engineering; biodegradation
- Michael Shuler -- biotechnology
- Martin Wiedmann -- food microbiology; dairy science; food science
- Randy Worobo -- antimicrobial proteins and peptides
Environmental Microbiology / Microbial Ecology – Understanding interactions between microbes and their environment
- Esther Angert -- novel bacterial development system; phylogeny
- Ludmilla Aristilde -- biologically active organic molec.
- Daniel Buckley -- environmental genomics; ecology of soils
- William Ghiorse (Emeritus) -- aquatic microbiology; subsurface microbiology
- Anthony Hay -- toxicology; metabolism of xenobiotics
- Ian Hewson -- marine biology and ecology; biological oceanography
- Eugene Madsen -- biogeochemistry; biodegradation
- Joseph Yavitt -- biogeochemistry; wetlands
- Stephen Zinder -- microbial biochemistry; microbial ecology
Host-Microbe interactions – Understanding the beneficial and pathogenic interactions between microbes and host organisms.
- Adam Bogdanove -- TAL effectors; plant pathogens
- Kathryn Boor -- food microbiology, safety, and quality
- Dwight Bowman -- biology of parasites; apicomplexan protozoa
- Ilana Brito -- Human Microbiome, mobile genes
- Nicolas Buchon -- bacterial pathogenesis; genetics
- James Casey -- molecular virology; retro virology; herpes virology
- Pamela Chang -- gut microbiota; small molecule metabolites
- Alan Collmer -- biotechnology; phytobacteriology
- Angela (Searle) Douglas -- symbiotic microbes in insects
- Edward Dubovi -- animal virology; pathogenic microbiology
- Tory Hendry -- genome evolution; microbe interactions
- Helene Marquis -- signaling during bacterial cell-to-cell spread
- Teresa Pawlowska -- fungal biology; plant-microbe interactions
- David Russell -- intracellular pathogens; biology of microbe/host
- Kenneth Simpson - host bacterial interactions; intestinal inflammation
- Jeongmin Song -- pathogenic mechanisms; toxins
- Gillian Turgeon -- fungal biology; pathogenicity and mating
- Brian VanderVen -- Intracellular M. tuberculosis
- Gary Whittaker -- viral pathogenesis; virus-bacteria co-infection
Molecular Microbiology – Understanding the fundamental molecular processes of microbes.
- Ruth Collins -- microbiology
- Joshua Chappie -- Bacterial defenses systems
- Tobias Doerr -- Stress pathways; antibiotic resistance/tolerance
- John Helmann -- transcription factors
- Ailong Ke -- crystallography; biochemistry
- Yuxin Mao -- membrane trafficking; phosphoinositide signaling
- Joseph Peters -- genome stability; transposition; genomics
- Jeffrey Roberts (Emeritus) -- prokaryotic gene expression; transcription
- James Shapleigh -- microbial physiology; electron transport
- Stephen Winans -- biotechnology; phytobacteriology