Fungi

Faculty studying fungi

Fox, Catherine

Position title: Professor

Email: cfox@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-262-9370

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Biomolecular Chemistry
Mechanisms required for genome duplication and stability in eukaryotic organisms

Gasch, Audrey

Position title: Professor

Email: agasch@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-265-0859

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Medical Genetics
Elucidating the role, regulation, and evolution of eukaryotic stress responses

Hittinger, Chris Todd

Position title: Professor & Director, J.F. Crow Institute for the Study of Evolution

Email: cthittinger@wisc.edu

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Genetics
Evolutionary genomics of yeast carbon metabolism with applications in brewing and bioenergy

Hoskins, Aaron

Position title: Assistant Professor

Email: ahoskins@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-890-3101

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Biochemistry
RNA splicing, gene expression, fluorescence microscopy, RNA/protein complexes

Hull, Christina

Position title: Professor

Email: cmhull@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-265-5441

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Biomolecular Chemistry and Medical Microbiology & Immunology
Fungal pathogen biology, eukaryotic development and differentiation, host-pathogen interactions, molecular mechanisms of infectious spore germination

Keller, Nancy

Position title: Professor

Email: npkeller@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-262-9795

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Medical Microbiology and Immunology
Fungal genetics, fungal/bacterial interactions, mining fungal genomes for bioactive chemicals

Pepperell, Caitlin

Position title: Assistant Professor

Email: cspepper@medicine.wisc.edu

Phone: 608-262-6167

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Medicine
Ecological and evolutionary interactions between humans and human pathogens

Roy, Sushmita

Position title: Assistant Professor

Email: sroy@biostat.wisc.edu

Phone: 608-316-4453

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Biostatistics and Medical Informatics
Machine learning methods; the structure, function and evolution of regulatory networks; predictive models

Schwartz, David

Position title: Professor

Email: dcschwartz@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-265-0546

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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