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      The following is a list of the department's faculty with their areas of research activities. To obtain more details, click on a highlighted name for that individual's specific page.

    Faculty:  A  B  C  D  F  G  H  J  K L  M  N  P S  V  W  Y  Z  Emeritus

    Faculty

    Ibrahim Z. Ades, Chair of the Department and Director of the Molecular and Cell Biology Program. Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, 1976. Regulatory processes that govern eukaryotic cell development. 

    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.

    George Bean, Professor. Ph.D. University of Minnesota, 1963. Plant pathology: occurrence, development, and control of mycotoxins.

    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 Professor. Ph.D. California Institute of Technology, 1988. Plant molecular genetics: signal transduction; hormonal signaling.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    Charles F. Delwiche, Associate Professor. Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1990. Molecular systematics; 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.

    Kenneth Frauwirth, Assistant Professor. Ph.D. University of California-Berkeley. T cell activation and peripheral tolerance mechanisms; regulation of lymphocyte metabolism.

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

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

    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.

    Iqbal Hamza, Adjunct Assistant Professor. Ph.D. State University of New York School of Medicine, 1998. Cell Biology and Genetics of Micronutrient and Metal Metabolism.

    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.

    William R. Jeffery, Affiliate Professor. Ph.D. University of Iowa, 1971. Evolution of developmental mechanisms in chordates.

    Sam W. Joseph, 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.

    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.

    Ian Mather, Affiliate Professor. Ph.D. Univ. College of North Wales, 1971. Expression and function of mammary glycoproteins.

    Edgar Moctezuma, Instructor. Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1998. Plant physiology - fruit development, plant hormones, postharvest biology, plant genetic engineering.

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

    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.

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

    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.

    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.

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

    Stephen Wolniak, Professor. Ph.D. University of Caliornia, Berkeley, 1979. Cell bilogy: cell motility; mechanisms of chromosome movement during mitosis; signal transduction in the regulation of mitotic progression.

    Robert T. Yuan, 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.



    Emeritus Faculty

    Rita Colwell

    Thomas Cook

    Raymond N. Doetsch

    Frank M. Hetrick

    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

    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.

     

     
       
     
     

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