| Name |
Research Program |
| Aseem
Ansari |
Chemical approaches to dissect and direct
the genome decoding machinery |
| Frederick Blattner |
Molecular genetics/immunology |
Cameron Currie |
Microbial ecology and evolution, symbiosis, evolutionary genomics, and host-pathogen interactions |
| Diana
Downs |
Metabolic regulation and pathway integration |
| Brian
Fox |
Biochemical, catalytic, and spectroscopic
studies of redox active enzymes; protein engineering. |
Audrey Gasch |
Genomic expression in fungi |
| Jo
Handelsman |
Molecular and ecological basis of plant/bacterial
interactions |
Warren Heidman |
Using the yeast S. cerevisiae to understand how cells move from quiescence to growth. |
| Katherine
McMahon |
Environmental microbiology and molecular
microbial ecology |
| Ann
Palmenberg |
Molecular biology of RNA picornaviruses;
protein translation, proteolytic processing; RNA synthesis;
viral pathogenesis; viral vaccines, vaccine vectors; computer-based
sequence analysis. |
Nicole Perna |
Genomic and organismal evolution of plant and animal-associated enterobacteria; Bioformatics and computational biology. |
| Jennie Reed |
Metabolic and regulatory models of organisms involved in bioremediation, bioenergy, and pharmaceutical applications |
| Ned
Ruby |
Bacterial determinants of host-microbe
interactions |
| David
Schwartz |
We develop and apply new approaches based
on genomic science to important biological problems |
| Ben
Shen |
Secondary metabolite biosynthesis and
drug discovery |
| Michael
Thomas |
Biosynthesis of bacterial secondary metabolites |
| Adel
Talaat |
Functional genomics for understanding
the molecular pathogenesis of tuberculosis and paratuberculosis |