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Karine Gibbs, photograph by Adam Sings in the Timber Karine Gibbs
Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology
microbiology, microbial development, molecular genetics, biochemistry, microbial social behaviors, bacterial communities / microbiomes, collective behaviors
Ignacio Chapela Ignacio Chapela
Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management
agriculture, biotechnology, environmental science, microbial biology, policy and management
Matt F. Traxler Matt F. Traxler
Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology
bacterial interspecies interactions, specialized metabolism
Dipti Nayak Dipti Nayak
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
Michael Shapira, Integrative Biology Michael Shapira
Dept of Integrative Biology
aging, host-microbe interactions, Microbiome, C. elegans
headshot of Daniel Portnoy 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
Headshot of Leah Guthrie in outside setting Leah Guthrie
Dept of Bioengineering
microbial metabolism
John Coates in lab with equipment in background 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
headshot of Sheng Luan in outdoor setting Sheng Luan
Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology
microbial biology, plant biology
Professor Michi Taga with Petri plate Michi Taga
Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology
molecular biology, genetics, microbial biology, chemical biology, cofactors, nutrient exchange, microbial communities, bacteria
Brian Staskawicz in lab holding wheat stem Brian Staskawicz
Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology
biotechnology, plant and microbial biology
N. Cecilia Martinez-Gomez 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
Niyogi checking plants in the Oxford Tract greenhouse. Photo credit: Mathew Burciaga. Krishna K. Niyogi
Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology
genetics, plant and microbial biology, algae, photosynthesis, CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing, carbon sequestration
Lisa Alvarez-Cohen Lisa Alvarez-Cohen
Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering
environmental microbiology, biodegradation of environmental contaminants, microbial carbon cycling, molecular tools for microbial ecology, metagenomics, biological hazardous waste treatment, bioremediation of groundwater pollutants
Headshot of Anastasios Melis Anastasios Melis
Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology
photosynthesis, Metabolic Engineering, synthetic biology, bioproduction R&D
Patrick Shih Patrick Shih
Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology
synthetic biology, plant biology, microbiology, evolutionary biology
Bethanie Edwards Bethanie Edwards
Dept of Earth and Planetary Science
oceanography, chemical oceanography, environmental microbiology, molecular tools for microbial ecology, mass spectrometry, lipidomics, lipid metabolism, marine biogeochemistry, microbial carbon cycling, ocean carbon cycle dynamics
Yangnan GU Yangnan Gu
Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology
plant biology, cell biology, plant immunity
Lew Feldman in the Botanical Garden's Carnivorous Plant Greenhouse Lewis J. Feldman
Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology
plant biology, plant physiology, plant
man with light colored hair smiling at camera in outdoor setting; Douglas Koshland Douglas Koshland
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
higher order chromosome structure, genome integrity, sister chromatid cohesion, chromosome condensation, desiccation tolerance, microbial genetics
Steven E. Brenner 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
headshot of Patricia Lang Patricia Lang
Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology
plant climate change adaptation, plant development, molecular biology, RNA silencing, herbarium genomics, genetics
Picture of Professor Merchant 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
Mathew Welch 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
headshot of Yan Gong Yan Gong
Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology
plant development, cell biology, single-cell transcriptomics, evolutionary genomics
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