The MS faculty trainers listed in the table below have demonstrated an interest in participating in the Bacteriology MS program and can serve as research mentors for research-track students. There are many additional microbiologists on campus who could serve as research mentors. A student interested in having an outside faculty member (i.e. one not listed in the table below) serve as research mentor must petition the MS advisory committee for approval of trainer status prior to initiating graduate work.
Are you a faculty member interested in becoming a trainer in the Bacteriology MS program? Information about expectations for trainers can be found here, and the trainer application form can be found here.
All Faculty Trainers
Daniel Amador-Noguez
Credentials: Bacteriology
Position title: Assistant Professor
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Metabolic regulation in biofuels
Karthik Anantharaman
Credentials: Bacteriology
Position title: Assistant Professor
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Microbial ecology, community interactions, biogeochemistry and metagenomics
David Andes
Credentials: Medicine/Medical Microbiology and Immunology
Position title: Professor
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Antifungal activity and drug resistance
Jean-Michel Ané
Credentials: Bacteriology
Position title: Professor
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Symbiotic associations between plants and microbes
Helen Blackwell
Credentials: Chemistry
Position title: Professor
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Quorum sensing in animal and plant-associated bacteria, artificial bacterial signaling molecules
Briana Burton
Credentials: Bacteriology
Position title: Associate Professor
Molecular mechanisms of macromolecule transport across membranes. Website
Silvia Cavagnero
Credentials: Chemistry
Position title: Professor
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Mechanism of protein folding, misfolding and aggregation in the bacterial cell
Kerri Coon
Credentials: Bacteriology
Position title: Assistant Professor
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Insect-microbe interactions, impacts of gut microbes on the biology of disease vectors
Joseph Dillard
Credentials: Medical Microbiology and Immunology
Position title: Professor
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Molecular mechanisms of disease caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Tim Donohue
Credentials: Bacteriology
Position title: Professor
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Bacterial renewable energy strategies
David Eide
Credentials: Nutritional Sciences
Position title: Professor
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Nutritional genomics and molecular responses to changes in nutrient status
Katrina Forest
Credentials: Bacteriology
Position title: Professor
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Structural biology of pathogenesis
David Hershey
Credentials: Bacteriology
Position title: Assistant Professor
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Mechanisms of surface colonization in bacteria
Chris Hittinger
Credentials: Genetics
Position title: Associate Professor
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Diversity and evolution of yeast carbon metabolism
Tu Anh Huynh
Credentials: Food Science
Position title: Assistant Professor
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Bacterial signal transduction, bacterial pathogenesis and stress response
Betul Kacar
Credentials: Bacteriology
Position title: Assistant Professor
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Origins and early evolution of life, ancient proteins, functional evolution over geologic time
Charles Kaspar
Credentials: Bacteriology
Position title: Professor
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Molecular and physiological basis of stress tolerance
Nancy Keller
Credentials: Medical Microbiology & Immunology
Position title: Professor
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Host and pathogen signals governing pathogenesis by fungi
Patricia Kiley
Credentials: Biomolecular Chemistry
Position title: Professor
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Transcriptional control of anaerobic gene expression in E. coli
Laura Knoll
Credentials: Medical Microbiology and Immunology
Position title: Professor
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Molecular mechanisms of development and pathogenesis of Toxoplasma gondii
Robert Landick
Credentials: Bacteriology
Position title: Professor
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Transcriptional regulation/RNA polymerase structure and function
Erica Majumder
Credentials: Bacteriology
Position title: Assistant Professor
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Anaerobic metabolism, microbe-metal and microbe-plastics interactions, biodegradation
Kinjal Majumder
Credentials: Molecular Virology and Oncology
Position title: Assistant Professor
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How viruses navigate the nuclear environment to establish viral replication centers
Mark Mandel
Credentials: Medical Microbiology and Immunology
Position title: Associate Professor
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Bacterial colonization of host epithelial tissue, Vibrio fischeri-squid symbiosis
Katherine McMahon
Credentials: Bacteriology
Position title: Professor
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Environmental microbiology and molecular microbial ecology
Jeniel Nett
Credentials: Medicine/Medical Microbiology and Immunology
Position title: Associate Professor
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Immune responses to fungal biofilm infection
Sabine Pellett
Credentials: Bacteriology
Position title: Research Associate Professor
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Bacterial virulence factors and toxins related to food and industrial microbiology
Brian Pfleger
Credentials: Chemical Engineering
Position title: Professor
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Synthetic biology, metabolic and protein engineering, natural products
Anne Pringle
Credentials: Botany and Bacteriology
Position title: Professor
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Evolution and ecology of natural populations of fungi
Vatsan Raman
Credentials: Biochemistry
Position title: Assistant Professor
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Design of synthetic bacteriophages for therapy and microbiome editing, engineering microbial transcription, protein design
Federico Rey
Credentials: Bacteriology
Position title: Associate Professor
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Diet-microbe interactions and human health
Eric Roden
Credentials: Geoscience
Position title: Professor
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Biogeochemistry and microbial ecology of soils, ecophysiology of anaerobic microorganisms
Garret Suen
Credentials: Bacteriology
Position title: Associate Professor
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Symbiotic microbes and microbial communities associated with herbivores
Marulasiddappa Suresh
Credentials: Pathobiological Sciences
Position title: Professor
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Position title: T cell responses to viral infections
Adel Talaat
Credentials: Pathobiological Sciences
Position title: Professor
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Molecular pathogenesis of tuberculosis and paratuberculosis
Michael Thomas
Credentials: Bacteriology
Position title: Professor
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Biosynthesis of bacterial secondary metabolites
JP van Pijkeren
Credentials: Food Science
Position title: Assistant Professor
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Microbiota-host interactions and development of biotherapeutics
Ophelia Venturelli
Credentials: Biochemistry
Position title: Assistant Professor
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Synthetic biology of microbial consortia, design and analysis of gene regulatory networks
Jae-Hyuk Yu
Credentials: Bacteriology
Position title: Professor
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Molecular genetics of asexual sporulation and mycotoxin biosynthesis in filamentous fungi
Mostafa Zamanian
Credentials: Pathobiological Sciences
Position title: Assistant Professor
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The study and treatment of parasite (helminth) infections