Karine Gibbs Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology microbiology, microbial development, molecular genetics, biochemistry, microbial social behaviors, bacterial communities / microbiomes, collective behaviors
Ignacio Chapela Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management agriculture, biotechnology, environmental science, microbial biology, policy and management
Matt F. Traxler Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology bacterial interspecies interactions, specialized metabolism
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
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
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
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 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
Anastasios Melis Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology photosynthesis, Metabolic Engineering, synthetic biology, bioproduction R&D
Patrick Shih Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology synthetic biology, plant biology, microbiology, evolutionary biology
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
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 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
Patricia Lang Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology plant climate change adaptation, plant development, molecular biology, RNA silencing, herbarium genomics, genetics
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
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
Yan Gong Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology plant development, cell biology, single-cell transcriptomics, evolutionary genomics