Graduate Field Faculty
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.
Environmental Microbiology / Microbial Ecology
Understanding interactions between microbes and their environment
- Esther Angert -- novel bacterial development system; phylogeny
- Daniel Buckley -- environmental genomics; ecology of soils
- Andrea Giometto -- experimental evolution; quantitative microbiology
- Anthony Hay -- toxicology; metabolism of xenobiotics
- Ian Hewson -- marine biology and ecology; biological oceanography
- Rong Yang-- Infectious disease treatment; bacteria-material interactions; anti-biofouling materials.
- Joseph Yavitt -- biogeochemistry; wetlands
Available for Minor Membership only:
- Katie Edwards -- environmental toxicology; One Health; bioanalytical assay development
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
- April Gu -- Water systems, molecular biotechnology
- Laura Goodman -- diagnostics, surveillance, and comparative genomics
- Ruth Richardson -- bioenvironmental engineering; biodegradation
- Martin Wiedmann -- food microbiology; dairy science; food science
- Randy Worobo -- antimicrobial proteins and peptides
Host-Microbe Interactions
Understanding the beneficial and pathogenic interactions between microbes and host organisms.
- Craig Altier -- Salmonella/host interaction; virulence regulation
- Adam Bogdanove -- TAL effectors; plant pathogens
- Ilana Brito -- human Microbiome, mobile genes
- Nicolas Buchon -- bacterial pathogenesis; genetics
- Sarah Caddy -- virus-antibody interactions
- Pamela Chang -- gut microbiota; small molecule metabolites
- Nate Cira -- microfluidics, bioengineering, synthetic biology
- Amandine Gamble -- animal ecology, infectious disease ecology, wildlife epidemiology
- Tory Hendry -- genome evolution; microbe interactions
- Elizabeth Johnson -- bioactive lipids, gut microbiome, infant nutrition
- Satoshi Kimura -- Translation control, RNA modification, Bacterial pathogenesis
- Teresa Pawlowska -- fungal biology; plant-microbe interactions
- Angela Poole - gene-diet-microbe interactions
- Luis Schang -- comparative virology; viral pathogenesis, therapeutics
- 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
- Aisha Burton -- bacterial stress response; small proteins
- Ruth Collins -- microbiology
- Tobias Doerr -- stress pathways; antibiotic resistance/tolerance
- Heather Feaga -- ribosome maintenance, molecular biology, biochemistry
- Cedric Feschotte -- mobile genetic elements, transposons and endogenous virus
- Kelley Gallagher -- regulation of sporulation; c-di-GMP signaling; molecular evolution
- Patrick Gibney -- yeast metabolism and stress; wine microbiology
- John Helmann -- stress responses, metal homeostasis, antibiotic resistance
- Lori Huberman -- fungal genetics and genomics; regulatory pathways
- Yuxin Mao -- membrane trafficking; phosphoinositide signaling
- Lisa-Marie Nisbett -- nontuberculous mycobacteria, biofilm formation, bacterial signal transduction
- Joseph Peters -- genome stability; transposition; CRISPR-Cas
- Stephen Winans -- biotechnology; phytobacteriology