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The Bacteriology Faculty / Instructional Staff

Name

Primary Affiliation

Field of Interest

Stephen Barclay

Bacteriology

Developmental microbiology of Dictyostelium, Pneumocystis, and Cryptosporidium

Glenn Chambliss

Bacteriology

Global regulatory controls in Gram positive bacteria and microbial degradation of energetic compounds.

Cameron Currie

Bacteriology

Evolutionary ecology of the attine ant-microbe quadripartite symbiosis

Timothy Donohue

Bacteriology

Process and regulation of cytochrome biosynthesis

Diana Downs

Bacteriology

Metabolic regulation and pathway integration

Jerald Ensign

Bacteriology (emeritus)

Developmental microbiology of actinomycetes; microbial insecticides; bacteria-nematode symbiosis.

Jorge Escalante-Semerena

Bacteriology

Genetics and biochemistry of anaerobic metabolism

Marcin Filutowicz

Bacteriology

"Reproductive cycle" and biology of plasmids, anti-microbial agents, bio-therapeutics

Katrina Forest

Bacteriology

Structural biology of pathogenesis.

Heidi Goodrich-Blair

Bacteriology

Molecular Mechanisms of Bacteria-Nematode-Insect Symbiosis

Richard Gourse

Bacteriology

Prokaryotic transcription/regulation of ribosome synthesis

Kenneth Hammel

Forest Products Laboratory

Lignocellulose biodegradation

Jo Handelsman

Bacteriology and
Plant Pathology

Bacterial diversity, metagenomics, community robustness, antibiotics and chemical signals.

Thomas Jeffries

Forest Products Laboratory

Bioconversion of renewable resources; metabolic engineering of pentose fermenting yeasts

Eric Johnson

Bacteriology

Clostridium botulinum and its toxins; food and industrial microbiology

Charles Kaspar

Bacteriology

Acidophiles; microbial ecology; host–pathogen interactions; antibiotic resistance

Robin Kurtz

Bacteriology

REU program director, teaching laboratory director, B.S. degree program advisor, and undergraduate teaching

Robert Landick

Biochemistry

Transcriptional regulation/RNA polymerase structure and function

John Lindquist

Bacteriology

Teaching laboratory director, undergraduate teaching, and culture collection curator

John Mansfield

Bacteriology

Immunology and molecular biology of infectious disease

William McClain

Bacteriology

tRNA structure and function

Michael Pariza

Food Research Institute

Conjugated Linoleic Acid and Food

Tim Paustian

Bacteriology

Teaching laboratory director, B.S. degree program advisor, and undergraduate teaching

Gary Roberts

Bacteriology

Genetics and biochemistry of nitrogen fixation and carbon monoxide oxidation

Jon Roll

Bacteriology

Undergraduate teaching and teaching laboratory director

Michael Thomas

Bacteriology

Biosynthesis of secondary metabolites

Kenneth Todar

Bacteriology

Undergraduate research

Karen Wassarman

Bacteriology

Small RNAs in bacteria

Paul Weimer

Dairy Forage Research Center

Rumen microbiology, anaerobic metabolism, biopolymer degradation

Amy Wong Bacteriology Identification, characterization and detection of enterotoxins of Bacillus cereus and Staphylococcus aureus.
Jaehyuk Yu Bacteriology Fungi and Mycotoxins: Molecular Genetics of Asexual Sporulation and Mycotoxin Biosynthesis in Filamentous Fungi

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