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Tenure Track Faculty
Norma Andrews, Chair of the Department and Professor. Ph.D. University of Sao Paulo, Brazil 1983. Molecular strategies utilized by intracellular pathogens, fundamental cell biological processes, calcium-dependent exocytosis of lysosomes, and the role of this process in plasma membrane repair .
Spencer Benson, Associate Professor. Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1978. Genetic analysis of bacterial surfaces; prokaryotic molecular biology; evolution.
Volker Briken, Assistant Professor. Ph.D. University of Paris (France), 1998. Molecular mechanisms of host-pathogen interactions and their importance for the virulence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Caren Chang, Associate Chair and Associate Professor. Ph.D. California Institute of Technology, 1988. Plant molecular genetics: signal transduction; hormonal signaling.
Todd Cooke, Professor. Ph.D. Cornell University, 1979. Plant development and evolution, generation of biological form, developmental mechanisms operating in the origin and diversification of land plants, nature of multicellularity.
Charles F. Delwiche, Associate Professor. Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1990. Molecular systematic; phylogenetic origin of land plants, and the evolution of chloroplasts.
Jeffrey DeStefano, Associate Professor. Ph.D. University of Connecticut, 1990. Mechanism of retroviral reverse transcriptases as it relates to replication and recombination.
Jonathan D. Dinman, Professor. Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University, 1988. Post-transcriptional control of gene expression.
Najib El-Sayed, Associate Professor. Ph.D. Yale University School of Medicine, 1993. Biology of parasitism and host-pathogen interactions using genomic approaches with the ultimate goal of better understanding infection and survival mechanisms.
Kenneth Frauwirth, Assistant Professor. Ph.D. University of California-Berkeley. T cell activation and peripheral tolerance mechanisms; regulation of lymphocyte metabolism.
Brenda Fredericksen, Assistant Professor. Ph.D. University of Tennessee Health Science Center-1997 Viral-host interactions, Defining the molecular mechanism(s) by which flaviviruses evade and/or block the host innate antiviral response, Molecular and cellular mechanisms of pathogenesis of flaviviruses, Model systems include West Nile virus, Kunjin and dengue virus.
Lian-Yong Gao, Assistant Professor. Ph.D. University of Kentucky, 1999. Molecular mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis and host defense; bacterial toxins, secretion mechanisms, and molecular/cellular interactions with host; zebrafish model of tuberculosis (TB) infection.
Steven W. Hutcheson, Professor. Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1982. Molecular plant pathology; molecular biology of Pseudomonas parasitism; role and regulation of Type III protein secretion systems; pathogenicity and non host plant resistance.
June Kwak, Assistant Professor. Ph.D. Pohang University of Science and Technology, 1997. Guard cell ABA and Ca2+ signal transduction/Single cell-type functional genomics.
Vincent Lee, Assistant Professor. Ph.D. University of California - Los Angeles, 2000
Zhongchi Liu, Associate Professor. Ph.D. Harvard University, 1990. Molecular genetics of flower development in Arabidopsis.
Kevin McIver, Associate Professor. Ph.D. University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center. Host-Bacterial pathogen interactions; Molecular mechanisms of virulence gene regulation in Streptococcus pyogenes; Protein secretion in Francisella tularensis.
David Mosser, Professor. Ph.D. North Carolina State University, 1983. The cell biology and immunology of macrophages and dendritic cells.
Stephen Mount, Associate Professor. Ph.D. Yale University, 1983 . Pre-mRNA splicing.
Anne Simon, Professor. Ph.D. Indiana University, 1983. Molecular biology of plant-virus interactions.
Wenxia Song, Associate Professor. Ph.D. Kansas State University, 1991. Immunology; processing and presentation of antigens by major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II in B cells.
Daniel C. Stein, Professor. Ph.D. University of Rochester, 1981. Molecular genetics; virulence mechanisms of pathogenic bacteria; Characterization of DNA Restriction and Modification Systems.
Richard Stewart, Associate Professor. Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1984. Microbial physiology molecular biology of bacterial motility; sensory systems in microorganisms.
David Straney, Associate Professor. Ph.D. Yale University, 1987. Fungal molecular biology: molecular biology fungal pathogenicity on plants; mechanisms of gene regulation.
Heven Sze, Professor. Ph.D. Purdue University, 1975. Biochemistry and physiology: membrane structure, function, and biogenesis; mechanism and regulation of solute transport; bioenergetics; proton-and calcium-pumping ATPases.
Stephen Wolniak, Professor. Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1979. Cell biology: cell motility; mechanisms of chromosome movement during mitosis; signal transduction in the regulation of mitotic progression.
Instructional Faculty
Edgar Moctezuma, Instructor. Ph.D. University of California,Berkeley, 1998. Plant physiology - fruit development, plant hormones,postharvest biology, plant genetic engineering.
Boots Quimby, Instructor. Ph.D. Emory University, Atlanta, GA. 1997.
David Rollins, Lecturer, Ph.D. University of Maryland
Patricia Shields, Instructor. Ph.D. University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 1985.
Ann C. Smith, Instructor, General Microbiology. Ph.D. University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, 1982.
Emeritus Faculty
George Bean, Emeritus Professor. Ph.D. University of Minnesota,1963. Plant pathology: occurrence, development, and control ofmycotoxins.
Rita Colwell, Emeritus Professor.
Thomas Cook, Emeritus Professor.
Raymond N. Doetsch, Emeritus Professor.
Elisabeth Gantt, Emerita and Distinguished University Professor. Ph.D.Northwestern University, 1958. Cell biology: photosynthetic apparatusand accessory pigments; physiology of algae; phylogenetic relationships.
Frank M. Hetrick, Emeritus Professor.
Sam W. Joseph, Emeritus Professor. Ph.D. St. John's University (New York),1970. Bacterial toxins; mechanisms of virulence; emerging causes ofhuman gastroenteritis; chromosomal and extra chromosomal factorsrelated to bacterial pathogenesis.
James Kantzes, Emeritus Professor.
David Lockard, Emeritus Professor.
Glenn Patterson, Emeritus Professor.
Michael J. Pelczar, Emeritus Professor.
James Reveal, Emeritus Professor. Ph.D. Brigham Young University, 1969. Plantsystematics, taxonomy of Polygonaceae (Eriogonoideae), botanicalnomenclature and history of explorations.
Bob S. Roberson, Emeritus Professor.
Robert T. Yuan, Emeritus Professor. Ph.D. Albert Einstein College of Medicine,1966. Protein recognition of specific DNA sequences; reaction mechanismof restriction and modification enzymes; DNA methylation in mammaliancells.
Ronald M. Weiner, Emeritus Professor. Ph.D. Iowa StateUniversity, 1970. Marine bacteriology; degradation of complexpolysaccharides; molecular biology and morphogenesis of buddingbacteria; establishment of submerged marine surface communities.
Affiliate Faculty
Ibrahim Z. Ades, Affiliate Associate Professor. Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, 1976. Regulatory processes that govern eukaryotic cell development.
Marco Colombini, Affiliate Professor. Ph.D. McGill University, 1974. Structure and mode of action of membrane transport systems; molecular basis for voltage control of channel-forming proteins.
William R. Jeffery, Affiliate Professor. Ph.D. University of Iowa, 1971. Evolution of developmental mechanisms in chordates.
Ian Mather, Affiliate Professor. Ph.D. Univ. College of North Wales, 1971. Expression and function of mammary glycoproteins.
Iqbal Hamza, Affiliate Assistant Professor. Ph.D. State University of New York School of Medicine, 1998. Cell Biology and Genetics of Micronutrient and Metal Metabolism.
Daniel Perez, Affiliate Assistant Professor. Ph.D. University of Nebraska, 1995. The molecular basis of interspecies transmission, pathogenesis, and cross-protection of influenza A viruses.
Leslie Pick, Affiliate Associate Professor. Ph.D. Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, N.Y., 1986. Embryonic development, evolution and axon guidance in Drosophila.
Steven Salzberg, Affiliate Professor. Ph.D. Harvard University, 1989. Director of Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Comparative genomics, gene finding, genome sequence assembly, genome evolution, genome sequencing.
Adjunct Faculty
Eric Baehrecke, Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Medical School. Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1992. Steroid regulation of gene expression, differentiation, and programmed cell death during insect development.
James Culver, Adjunct Associate Professor, Center for Biosystems Research, UMBI. Ph.D. University of California, Riverside, 1991. Molecular plant-virus interactions; virion assembly, replication, and long-distance movement of tobacco mosaic virus.
Eric O. Freed, Adjunct Associate Professor, Chief, Virus-Cell Interaction Section-NIH. Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1990. HIV-1 assembly, release, and maturation.
Kim Y. Green, Adjunct Associate Professor, Senior Investigator, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases-NIH. (Ph.D.) Molecular studies of viral agents of gastroenteritis; relating to epidemiology and vaccine development; replication of Calciviruses.
Neil Hall, Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Liverpool, School of Biological Sciences. Ph.D. University of Liverpool, U.K.,1997. Genomics, Bioinformatics, Genome Databases, Eukaryotic parasitegenomics.
Alison McBride, Adjunct Professor, Head, DNA Tumor Virology Section-NIH. Papillomavirus Replication and gene expression. Virus-cell interaction and regulation of viral transmission in dividing cells.
Bernard Moss, Adjunct Professor, Chief, Laboratory of Viral Diseases-NIH. Ph.D. Mass. Inst. Technology, 1967. Poxvirus-host interactions; viral DNA replication; recombinant vaccines and gene therapy; assembly of virions; structure and function of the HIV envelope protein.
Donald Nuss, Adjunct Professor, Center for Biosystems Research, UMBI. Ph.D. U. New Hampshire, 1973. Engineering viruses to understand and control fungal pathogenesis.
Robert Owens, Adjunct Senior Research Scientist, Research Chemist, MolecularPlant Pathology Laboratory-USDA Viroids and other subviral RNAs; molecular mechanisms of viroid replication and pathogenicity; relationship between RNA structure and biological function.
Vikram Vakharia, Adjunct Professor, Center for Biosystems Research, UMBI. Ph.D. U. Kansas, 1983. Molecular virology and vaccine development.
Owen White, Adjunct Professor, University of Maryland School of Medicine. Ph.D. New Mexico State University, New Mexico, 1992. Genomics
Reed Wickner, Adjunct Professor, Chief, Laboratory of Biochemistry and Genetics-NIH. M.D. Georgetown University, 1966. Genetics, molecular biology, and biochemistry of prions, dsRNA viruses, and naked ssRNA replicons of yeast.
Louisa Wu, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Center for Biosystems Research, UMBI . Ph.D. University of California, 1995, San Diego. Host defense against pathogens; signal transduction and cell-cell signaling in the innate immune response in insects
Shunyuan Xiao, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Center for Biosystems Research, UMBI. Ph.D Plant Genetics, Huazhong Agricultural University, China 1992. Cellular and molecular bases of plant defense. UMBI at Shady Grove.
