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Professor Blackman in the field with sunflowers

Benjamin Blackman

Dept of Integrative Biology

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

evolution, adaptation, domestication, phenotypic plasticity, flowering time, evo-devo, genomics, plant biology

Rachel Brem

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

molecular evolution, ecological genetics, genetics and genomics, fungal 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

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

Lew Feldman in the Botanical Garden's Carnivorous Plant Greenhouse

Lewis J. Feldman

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

plant biology, plant physiology, Plant

Karine Gibbs

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

microbiology, microbial development, molecular genetics, biochemistry, microbial social behaviors, bacterial communities / microbiomes, collective behaviors

Britt Glaunsinger

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

virology, gene expression, herpesvirus

Yangnan Gu

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

plant biology, plant immunity, cell biology

Arash Komeili

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

microbiology, Biomineralization, bacterial organelles, Magnetic Nanoparticles

Ksenia Krasileva

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

genome evolution, innate immunity, plant health, fungi

Patricia Lang

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

plant climate change adaptation, historical functional genomics, plant development

An image of Dr. Lofgren standing outdoors

Lotus Lofgren

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

comparative genomics, bioinformatics, ecology, mycology

Sheng Luan

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

microbial biology, plant biology

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

Anastasios Melis

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

photosynthesis, Metabolic Engineering, synthetic biology, bioproduction R&D

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

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

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

Kathleen Ryan

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

bacterial envelope properties, biogenesis, stress responses

Kimberley Seed

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

interactions between bacteria and their viral predators

Patrick Shih

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

synthetic biology, plant biology, microbiology, evolutionary biology

Brian Staskawicz

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

biotechnology, plant and microbial biology

Michi Taga

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

molecular biology, genetics, microbial biology, chemical biology, cofactors, nutrient exchange, microbial communities, bacteria

John W. Taylor

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

evolution, fungi, phylogenomics, mycology, population genomics, ecology

Matt F. Traxler

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

bacterial interspecies interactions, specialized metabolism

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