Nicole King Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology choanoflagellates, multicellularity, evolution of animals, host-microbe interactions, bacterial cues
Karine Gibbs Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology microbiology, microbial development, molecular genetics, biochemistry, microbial social behaviors, bacterial communities / microbiomes, collective behaviors
Daniel Rokhsar Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology genetics and genomics, evolution of animals, genetic diversity in animals and plants
Matt F. Traxler Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology bacterial interspecies interactions, specialized metabolism
David Weisblat Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology leech embryo, evolution & development, cell fate determination, lineage tracing, specification of neuronal phenotypes, genome evolution
Michi Taga Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology molecular biology, genetics, microbial biology, chemical biology, cofactors, nutrient exchange, microbial communities, bacteria
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
Ignacio Chapela Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management agriculture, biotechnology, environmental science, microbial biology, policy and management
Yan Gong Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology plant development, cell biology, single-cell transcriptomics, evolutionary genomics
Patricia Lang Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology plant climate change adaptation, plant development, molecular biology, RNA silencing, herbarium genomics, genetics
John D. Coates Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology precision fermentation, Bioprocess scale-up, environmental microbiology, Industrial bioprocesses, sustainability, carbon sequestration, Bioremediation, alternative energy production, biogeochemistry
Patrick Shih Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology synthetic biology, plant biology, microbiology, evolutionary biology
Rebecca Bart Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology agricultural sustainability, plant–microbe interactions, plant immunity, crop disease resistance
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
Ksenia Krasileva Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology genome evolution, innate immunity, plant health, fungi
Rachel Brem Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology molecular evolution, ecological genetics, genetics and genomics, fungal genetics
Lotus Lofgren Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology comparative genomics, bioinformatics, ecology, mycology
Arash Komeili Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology microbiology, Biomineralization, bacterial organelles, magnetic nanoparticles
Carole S. Hickman Dept of Integrative Biology systematics, evolutionary paleobiology, morphology, molluscs, macroevolutionary trends and patterns, Cenozoic Era, fossil record, evolutionary history and structure
Steven E. Brenner Dept of Bioengineering Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology molecular biology, computational biology, evolutionary biology, bioengineering, structural genomics, computational genomics, cellular activity, cellular functions, personal genomics
Benjamin Blackman Dept of Integrative Biology Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology evolution, adaptation, domestication, phenotypic plasticity, flowering time, evo-devo, genomics, plant biology