Karine Gibbs Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology microbiology, microbial development, molecular genetics, biochemistry, microbial social behaviors, bacterial communities / microbiomes, collective behaviors
Rachel Brem Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology molecular evolution, ecological genetics, genetics and genomics, fungal genetics
Arash Komeili Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology microbiology, Biomineralization, bacterial organelles, magnetic nanoparticles
Ignacio Chapela Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management agriculture, biotechnology, environmental science, microbial biology, policy and management
Michael B. Eisen Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology genomics, genome sequencing, bioinformatics, animal development
Daniel A. Portnoy Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology microbiology, bacteriology, infectious diseases, intracellular pathogens, innate immunity, adaptive immunity, vaccines, cell biology
Matt F. Traxler Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology bacterial interspecies interactions, specialized metabolism
Michi Taga Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology molecular biology, genetics, microbial biology, chemical biology, cofactors, nutrient exchange, microbial communities, bacteria
Krishna K. Niyogi Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology genetics, plant and microbial biology, algae, photosynthesis, CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing, carbon sequestration
Douglas Koshland Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology higher order chromosome structure, genome integrity, sister chromatid cohesion, chromosome condensation, desiccation tolerance, microbial genetics
Norma Cecilia Martinez-Gomez Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology microbial physiology, one-carbon metabolism, microbial molecular biology, bacteria, enzymes, enzyme activity, enzymology, enzyme kinetics, protein biochemistry, protein characterization
Patricia Lang Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology plant climate change adaptation, plant development, molecular biology, RNA silencing, herbarium genomics, genetics
Anastasios Melis Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology photosynthesis, Metabolic Engineering, synthetic biology, bioproduction R&D
Rebecca Bart Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology agricultural sustainability, plant–microbe interactions, plant immunity, crop disease resistance
Kimberley Seed Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology interactions between bacteria and their viral predators
Yan Gong Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology plant development, cell biology, single-cell transcriptomics, evolutionary genomics
John W. Taylor Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology evolution, fungi, phylogenomics, mycology, population genomics, ecology
Benjamin Blackman Dept of Integrative Biology Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology evolution, adaptation, domestication, phenotypic plasticity, flowering time, evo-devo, genomics, plant biology
Oskar Hallatschek Dept of Physics biophysics, evolutionary dynamics, soft matter, statistical physics, theory and experiments
Matthew Welch Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology biology, cell motility, role of the actin cytoskeleton in cell locomotion, shape change, actin filament assembly, bacterial and viral pathogens
Wenjun Zhang Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Dept of Chemistry chemical biology, microbiology, natural product biosynthesis, enzyme discovery and characterization, drug discovery, human microbiome, specialized metabolism
Sabeeha Merchant Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology chloroplast, photosynthesis, algae, trace metals, genomics, synthetic biology, designer lipids, Chlamydomonas, Auxenochlorella, Dunaliella