Department of Microbiology Faculty

Microbial ecology, microbial cellular biology, evolution of a novel bacterial developmental system and microbial phylogeny.

Interest in bacterial stress pathways, with a special interest in peptidoglycan remodelign in Vibrio cholerae.

Environmental microbiology, microbial ecology, physiology, and biogeochemistry.

Environmental microbiology; metabolism of man-made pollutants, with specific applications to environmental toxicology.

Host-microbe interactions, Bacterial genomic evolution, Ecology of microbiomes.
 

Marine microbiology; biogeochemistry, diversity, and distribution of marine microorganism; metagenomics and metatranscriptomics.

Moved to the Department of Microbiome Science, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany.

It is with the greatest of sadness that we inform you of the death of our longtime colleague and friend, Dr. Eugene (Gene) Madsen on Wednesday, August 9th.
 
This is truly a great loss to our department and to the Cornell community as a whole. He will be profoundly missed by everyone whose lives he touched.
 
Click here to view his obituary and details regarding his memorial service.
 

Chromosome integrity (Transposition; DNA Replication, Recombination and Repair); Functional Genomics.

Electron transport proteins of bacteria, in particular those proteins involved in the anaerobic respiration of nitrogen oxides.

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.

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.