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.
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
- Hening Lin -- chemistry, biology, and application of enzymes
- Ruth Richardson -- bioenvironmental engineering; biodegradation
- Martin Wiedmann -- food microbiology; dairy science; food science
- Randy Worobo -- antimicrobial proteins and peptides
- Laura Goodman -- diagnostics, surveillance, and comparative genomics
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
- Marian Schmidt -- microbial ecology; Genomics; Limnology
- Joseph Yavitt -- biogeochemistry; wetlands
Host-Microbe interactions
Understanding the beneficial and pathogenic interactions between microbes and host organisms.
- Hector Aguilar-Carreño - eukaryotic viral entry; therapeutics
- Craig Altier -- Salmonella/host interaction; virulence regulation
- Adam Bogdanove -- TAL effectors; plant pathogens
- Kathryn Boor -- food microbiology, safety, and quality
- Dwight Bowman -- biology of parasites; apicomplexan protozoa
- Ilana Brito -- Human Microbiome, mobile genes
- Nicolas Buchon -- bacterial pathogenesis; genetics
- Pamela Chang -- gut microbiota; small molecule metabolites
- Tory Hendry -- genome evolution; microbe interactions
- Elizabeth Johnson -- bioactive lipids, gut microbiome, infant nutrition
- Andrew Moeller -- Coevolution in host-microbe relationships
- Teresa Pawlowska -- fungal biology; plant-microbe interactions
- Angela Poole - gene-diet-microbe interactions
- David Russell -- intracellular pathogens; biology of microbe/host
- 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
- njc222 [at] cornell.edu (Nate Cira) -- microfluidics, bioengineering, synthetic biology
- Sarah Caddy -- virus-antibody interactions
Molecular Microbiology
Understanding the fundamental molecular processes of microbes.
- Ruth Collins -- microbiology
- Tobias Doerr -- stress pathways; antibiotic resistance/tolerance
- Heather Feaga -- ribosome maintenance, molecular biology, biochemistry
- Patrick Gibney -- yeast metabolism and stress; wine microbiology
- John Helmann -- stress responses, metal homeostasis, antibiotic resistance
- Ailong Ke -- crystallography; biochemistry
- Yuxin Mao -- membrane trafficking; phosphoinositide signaling
- Joseph Peters -- genome stability; transposition; CRISPR-Cas
- Stephen Winans -- biotechnology; phytobacteriology
- Cedric Feschotte -- mobile genetic elements, transposons and endogenous virus
- Lori Huberman -- fungal genetics and genomics; regulatory pathways
- Kelley Gallagher -- regulation of sporulation; c-di-GMP signaling; molecular evolution