Faculty studying bacteria and other microbes
Matt Anderson
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Medical Genetics
Gene families, Intraspecies variation, genome evolution, population dynamics, microbiomes
Jean-Michel Ané
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Bacteriology/Plant and Agroecosystem Sciences
Symbiotic associations between plants and microbes (bacteria and fungi)
Kerri Coon
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Bacteriology
Insect-microbe interactions, impacts of gut microbes on the biology of disease vectors
David Hershey
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Bacteriology
Mechanisms of surface colonization in bacteria and production of complex polysaccharides
Gaelen Hess
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Biomolecular Chemistry
High-throughput functional genomics to investigate DNA repair and pathogenic effectors
Tu-Anh Huynh
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Food Science
Bacterial signaling mechanisms, stress response, antibiotic resistance, pathogenesis
Robert Landick
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Biochemistry
RNA polymerase structure/function; regulation of RNA chain elongation
Carol Eunmi Lee
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Integrative Biology
Rapid Evolutionary responses to global change, including biological invasions, climate, and pollution. Genetic architecture of invasive species, functional ecological and evolutionary genomics
Mark Mandel
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Medical Microbiology and Immunology
Bacterial genetics, colonization of host epithelial tissue, signal transduction, Vibrio fischeri-squid symbiosis
Caitlin Pepperell
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Medicine
Ecological and evolutionary interactions between humans and human pathogens
Nicole Perna
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Genetics
Systems-scale evolutionary genomics of agriculturally, biomedically and industrially significant bacteria
Jason Peters
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Pharmaceutical Sciences
Roles of bacterial gene networks in antibiotic resistance and biofuel production
Vatsan Raman
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Biochemistry
High-throughput functional assays, variant effect prediction, human and microbial genomics
David Schwartz
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Genetics and Chemistry
Discovery of fundamental molecular phenomena, which are harnessed within fully integrated systems for comprehensive genome analysis; creation of a cell-free system (“GenSyn”) for the direct fabrication of synthetic chromosomes, which adapt/advance micro- and nanofluidics technologies previously developed for genome analysis by the Schwartz group
Jue D. (Jade) Wang
Address:
Bacteriology
Bacterial Stress Response, Nucleotide Signaling, Mutagenesis, Antibiotic Resistance