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Genomics

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

 

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