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, Interim Chair of the Department and 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.

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, 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.

Eric Baehrecke, Adjunct Associate Professor. 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. 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. Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1990. Molecular biology of HIV-1 replication; retrovirus assembly and release.

Kim Y. Green, Adjunct Associate Professor. Ph.D. Virology, Infectious Diseases - Epidemiology section at NIH

Neil Hall, Adjunct Assistant Professor. Ph.D. University of Liverpool, U.K., 1997. Genomics, Bioinformatics, Genome Databases, Eukaryotic parasite genomics. 

Bernard Moss, Adjunct Professor. Ph.D. Mass. Inst. Technology, 1967. Virus replication and host interactions.

Donald Nuss, Adjunct Professor. Ph.D. U. New Hampshire, 1973. Engineering viruses to understand and control fungal pathogenesis.

Vikram Vakharia, Adjunct Professor. Ph.D. U. Kansas, 1983. Molecular virology and vaccine development.

Owen White, Adjunct Professor. Ph.D. New Mexico State University, New Mexico, 1992. Genomics

Reed Wickner, Adjunct Professor. M.D. Georgetown University, 1966. Genetics and biochemical techniques. Laboratory of Biochemistry and Genetics - (LBG) at NIH

Louisa Wu, Adjunct Assistant Professor. Ph.D. University of California, San Diego, 1995. Host defense against pathogens; signal transduction and cell-cell signaling in the innate immune response in insects

Affiliates

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. University of Nebraska, 1995. The molecular basis of interspecies transmission, pathogenesis, and cross-protection of influenza A viruses

Steven Salzberg, Affiliate Professor. Ph.D. Harvard University, 1989. Director, Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Comparative genomics, gene finding, genome sequence assembly, genome evolution, genome sequencing
 

Emeritus

Rita Colwell

Thomas Cook

Raymond N. Doetsch

Elisabeth Gantt, Emerita and Distinguished University Professor. Ph.D. Northwestern University, 1958. Cell biology: photosynthetic apparatus and accessory pigments; physiology of algae; phylogenetic relationships.

Frank M. Hetrick

Sam W. Joseph, Emeritus Professor. Ph.D. St. John's University (New York), 1970. Bacterial toxins; mechanisms of virulence; emerging causes of human gastroenteritis; chromosomal and extra chromosomal factors related to bacterial pathogenesis.

James Kantzes

David Lockard

Glenn Patterson

Michael J. Pelczar

James Reveal, Emeritus Professor. Ph.D. Brigham Young University, 1969. Plant systematics, taxonomy of Polygonaceae (Eriogonoideae), botanical nomenclature and history of explorations.

Bob S. Roberson

Robert T. Yuan, Emeritus Professor. Ph.D. Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1966. Protein recognition of specific DNA sequences; reaction mechanism of restriction and modification enzymes; DNA methylation in mammalian cells.

Ronald M. Weiner, Emeritus Professor. Ph.D. Iowa State University, 1970. Marine bacteriology; molecular biology and morphogenesis of thermalvent budding bacteria; establishment of submerged marine surface communities.