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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,
Associate Professor. Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University, 1988.
Post-transcriptional control of gene expression.
Jocelyne DiRuggiero,
Assistant Professor. Ph.D. University Claude Bernard in
Lyon, France, 1989. Archaeal molecular biology, comparative
and functional genomics.
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.
Zhongchi Liu,
Associate Professor. Ph.D. Harvard University, 1990.
Molecular genetics of flower development in Arabidopsis.
Vincent Lee,
Assistant Professor. Ph.D.
University of California - Los Angeles, 2000
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.
Edgar Moctezuma
Instructor. Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1998.
Plant physiology - fruit development, plant hormones,
postharvest biology, plant genetic engineering.
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.
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.
Anne Simon,
Professor. Ph.D. Indiana University, 1983. Molecular biology
of plant-virus interactions.
Ann C. Smith,
Instructor, General Microbiology. Ph.D. University of
Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, 1982.
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,
Interim Chair of the Department and
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.
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