Core Faculty
| Faculty Member | Research Interests |
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| Scott Gardner | Phylogenetics and host-parasite coevolution | | John Janovy | Host-parasite relationships, parasite ecology |
Associated Faculty
Core Faculty
| Faculty Member | Research Interests |
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| James Alfano | Interactions of bacterial pathogens with plants | | Roy French | Molecular biology of RNA viruses utilizing wheat viruses and wheat as model systems | | Loren Geisler | Soybean and Urban Plant Diseases | | Amit Mitra | Vector, Plant Transformation | | Jim Partridge | Environmental Stress and Disease | | Tom Powers | Nematology | | James Steadman | Disease Management/Resistance | | James Etten | Molecular characterization of algal viruses.Viruses of Eukaryotic Algae | | Anne Vidaver | Biology of host plant-microbe interaction.Phytobacteriology | | Gary Yuen | Soilborne Diseases/Biological Control |
Associated Faculty
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Core Faculty
| Faculty Member | Research Interests |
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| Zoya Avramova | Relationship between chromatin structure and gene function in animal & plants | | Paul Blum | Molecular chaperones, thermophilic biology and metabolic engineering | | Heriberto Cerutti | Epigenetic silencing of nuclear transgenes; chloroplast DNA repair; nucleo-cytoplasmic interactions | | Alan Christensen | Plant mitochondrial genetics | | Etsuko Moriyama | Bioinformatics, molecular evolution, and molecular population genetics | | T. Morris | Virus diseases of plants; molecular genetics of plant viruses; comparative virology | | John Osterman | Gene structure and function in maize and Arabidopsis | | Bin Yu | | | Tom Elthon | Function of plant mitochondria; plant responses to the environment | | Sally Mackenzie | Plant mitochondrial genetics, nuclear-mitochondrial genetic interactions, genomics in legume species | | Chi Zhang | |
Associated Faculty
| Faculty Member | Research Interests |
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| James Alfano | Interactions of bacterial pathogens with plants | | Raymond Chollet | Regulatory protein phosphorylation in plants, Plant protein kinases and phosphatases, Photosynthetic/metabolic plant enzymes, Plant Biochemistry | | Steve Harris | Regulation of morphogenesis in the filamentous fungus Aspergillus nidulans | | Amit Mitra | Vector, Plant Transformation | | Paul Staswick | Plant Hormone Metabolism, Hormone Signaling, Disease resistance, Regulation of gene expression, Transgenic plants | | James Etten | Molecular characterization of algal viruses.Viruses of Eukaryotic Algae | | Thomas Clemente | Functional genomics & genetic engineering of plant germplasm | | Michael Fromm | Stress signaling and improvement of drought and salt tolerance of plants | | Julie Stone | Molecular mechanisms controlling programmed cell death (PDC) in plants | | Chi Zhang | |
Core Faculty
| Faculty Member | Research Interests |
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| Peter Angeletti | Replication and persistance of human papillomaviruses (HPVs),primarily those which are sexually transmitted, such HPV16 | | Audrey Atkin | Regulation of mRNA stability in yeast | | Zoya Avramova | Relationship between chromatin structure and gene function in animal & plants | | Paul Blum | Molecular chaperones, thermophilic biology and metabolic engineering | | Deborah Brown | CD4 T-cell responses to influenza virus, mechanism | | Heriberto Cerutti | Epigenetic silencing of nuclear transgenes; chloroplast DNA repair; nucleo-cytoplasmic interactions | | Catherine Chia | Membrane-cytoskeletal interactions | | Gregor Grass | Bacterial physiology of trace elements/metallophiles | | Hideaki Moriyama | | | T. Morris | Virus diseases of plants; molecular genetics of plant viruses; comparative virology | | Kenneth Nickerson | Microbial insecticides; fungal dimorphism | | R. Pardy | Cell biology and biochemistry of endotoxins | | Karrie Weber | Microbial Biogeochemistry, Microbial Ecology, Geomicrobiology | | Charles Wood | Molecular virology and virol oncology; pathogenesis of human immunodeficiency virus and human herpesvirus | | Luwen Zhang | Herpes virus latency, interferon regulatory factors |
Associated Faculty
| Faculty Member | Research Interests |
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| James Alfano | Interactions of bacterial pathogens with plants | | Raul Barletta | Genetics, antibiotics, mycobacteria | | Andrew Benson | Microbial genomics and population genetics | | Roy French | Molecular biology of RNA viruses utilizing wheat viruses and wheat as model systems | | Robert Hutkins | Microbial physiology, food safety, metabolism | | Clint Jones | Latency of a-herpes viruses, apotosis | | Michael Meagher | Recombinant protein production from the methyltrophic yeast Pichia pastoris during cell density fermentation and optimization of fermentation conditions | | Fernando Osorio | Animal virus pathogenesis | | Asit Pattnaik | Molecular biology of RNA viruses, virus-host cell interactions, attenuated viruses | | James Etten | Molecular characterization of algal viruses.Viruses of Eukaryotic Algae | | Anne Vidaver | Biology of host plant-microbe interaction.Phytobacteriology |
Core Faculty
| Faculty Member | Research Interests |
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| Alexandra Basolo | Sexual selection; life-history evolution; predator-prey interactions/Genetics and evolution of color patterns, of life history traits, and of sexually selected traits | | Alan Christensen | Plant mitochondrial genetics | | Lawrence Harshman | Genetics, evolution and DNA diagnostics | | Etsuko Moriyama | Bioinformatics, molecular evolution, and molecular population genetics | | Hideaki Moriyama | | | John Osterman | Gene structure and function in maize and Arabidopsis | | Diana Pilson | Ecological genetics of plant-insect interactions | | Jay Storz | Molecular evolutionary genetics, evolutionary genomics | | Anthony Zera | Evolutionary physiology; endocrine adaptations; wing polymorphism/Evolutionary genetics of wing polymorphism | | Chi Zhang | |
Associated Faculty
Core Faculty
| Faculty Member | Research Interests |
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| Gwen Bachman | Physiological and behavioral ecology | | Alexandra Basolo | Sexual selection; life-history evolution; predator-prey interactions/Genetics and evolution of color patterns, of life history traits, and of sexually selected traits | | Chad Brassil | Mathematical modeling of ecological interactions | | Jennifer Brisson | | | Robert Gibson | Behavior, ecology and evolution | | Lawrence Harshman | Genetics, evolution and DNA diagnostics | | Eileen Hebets | Animal behavior: complex signal evolution | | John Janovy | Host-parasite relationships, parasite ecology | | Alan Kamil | Behavioral ecology of learning and memory | | Johannes (Jean) Knops | Ecosystem and plant ecology; plant species impact on nutrient cycling | | Svata Louda | Ecology of insect herbivory; plant ecology and conservation | | Diana Pilson | Ecological genetics of plant-insect interactions | | Sabrina Russo | Ecology, especially of tropical forests, ecological statistics and modeling | | Jay Storz | Molecular evolutionary genetics, evolutionary genomics | | Brigitte Tenhumberg | Invasion ecology & optimal decisions in insect behavior and life history | | William Wagner | Behavioral ecology; sexual selection | | Karrie Weber | Microbial Biogeochemistry, Microbial Ecology, Geomicrobiology | | Anthony Zera | Evolutionary physiology; endocrine adaptations; wing polymorphism/Evolutionary genetics of wing polymorphism | | Alan Bond | Animal Cognition and Behavioral Complexity | | Sheri Fritz | Quaternary Paleoclimatology and Paleolimnology |
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