School of
Biology

J. Choi

Plant molecular genetics, protein kinases and cell surface proteins in plant development and regeneration.

T. DiChristina

Molecular biology and biogeochemistry of anaerobic bacteria that inhabit marine and freshwater environments, with interests in anaerobic bacteria that utilize transition metals (iron, manganese, uranium, selenium) as alternate terminal electron acceptors for anaerobic respiration.

P. Edmonds

Describing molecular mechanisms used by pathogens to mediate adhesion to surfaces during the formation of biofilms.

S. Harvey

Macromolecular structure and dynamics and the relationship of these to biological function.

K. Lobachev

DNA repair, recombination, replication, genome stability.

N. McCarty

Structure-function of ion channels, molecular physiology of cystic fibrosis, regulation of ion channels by synaptic proteins, human physiology.

S. Spiro

Stress responses in prokaryotic organisms, and especially in the roles and mechanisms of proteins that detect environmental signals, and proteins that regulate gene expression in order to coordinate an appropriate adaptive response.

I. Zhulin

Use of computational genomics to derive meaningful information from completely sequenced microbial genomes.