Faculty studying fungi
Fox, Catherine
Position title: Professor
Email:
cfox
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
Phone: 608-265-0859
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Medical Genetics
Elucidating the role, regulation, and evolution of eukaryotic stress responses
Gluck-Thaler, Emile
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email:
gluckthaler
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Plant Pathology
How fungi cause disease on animals and plants by integrating molecular genetics with evolutionary genomics and data science
Hittinger, Chris Todd
Position title: Professor & Director, J.F. Crow Institute for the Study of Evolution
Email:
cthittinger
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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
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
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
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
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
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
Phone: 608-265-0546
Address:
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