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Dedicated to the ecology and evolutionary biology of the parasites of unicellular organisms (UOPs)
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Bacteriophage Ecology Group Members |
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Dedicated to the ecology and evolutionary biology of the parasites of unicellular organisms (UOPs) | ||
| © Stephen T. Abedon | ||
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| © Phage et al. | last updated on Tuesday, December 11, 2007 |
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| Stephen T. Abedon | PI | Department of Microbiology, The Ohio State University, 1680 University Dr., Mansfield, Ohio 44906 | |
| interests: | Phage ecology as applied to the phage life cycle and bacterial pathogenesis. Maintaining the Bacteriophage Ecology Group and TheBacteriophages.org web sites. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Hans-W. Ackermann | PI | Félix d'Hérelle Reference Center for Bacterial Viruses, Department of Medical Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Laval University, Quebec, Qc, Canada G1K 7P4 | |
| interests: | Phage morphology and classification, typing, and ecology. I have been ICTV vice-president and over many years chairman or vice-chairman of the ICTV Bacterial Virus Subcommittee. I have founded the Felix d'Hérelle Reference Center for Bacterial Viruses (essentially a taxonomical phage collection) and claim to be the individual on this planet who has seen the most bacteriophages in the electron microscope. I have a special experience with phages of enterobacteria, Bacillus, and Pseudomonas. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Zeiad Moussa Abd El-Moati Ahmed | PI |
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Bacterial Diseases Research Department, Plant Pathology Resarch Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Giza, Egypt |
| interests: | Isolation and characterization of phages active against bacterial plant pathogen, especially lytic phages active against Ralstonia solanacerum, the cause of brown rot disease of potato. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Yun-Can Ai | PI | Director, Lab of Molecular Microbiolgoy and Antimicrobial Drugs, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, Zhongshan University, Guangzhou 510275, P R China | |
| interests: | My lab is focusing on the Phage-bacteria community ecology in the South China Sea, Pacific Ocean Coast. The coevolution of phage and pathogenic bacteria, horizontal gene transfer, effects of stress induced by antibiotics. Bacteriophages isolation and their role in gene transfer within the bacterial community, particularly pathogenicity islands. Bacteriophage genomics and evolution. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Robert Armon | PI | Department of Environmental, Water and Agricultural Engineering, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000 Israel | |
| interests: | Bacteriophages in environmental engineering, interaction of lytic phages with biofilms, and rapid methods of phage detection and isolation. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Deepak Bala | PI | GangaGen Biotechnologies Pvt. Ltd., #5AC 705, II Block, Hennur Rd., Banaswadi Layout, Bangalore 560048 INDIA | |
| interests: | Phage Biology, Phage-based prophylaxis and therapeutics. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Botond Balogh | --- | 1453 Fifield Hall, PO Box 110680, Gainesville, FL 32611-0680 | |
| interests: | Control of tomato bacterial spot, caused by Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria with bacteriophage applications. In the future I will work on controlling citrus cancer, caused by Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. citri, with phages. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Dilip Bandyopadhyay | PI | Biotekk, Mumbai India | |
| interests: | Phage display as applied to cancer research. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Kalyan Banerjee | PI | Vice-President, MACS, Agharkar Research Institute, Agarkar Road, Off Law College Road, Pune 411 004, Maharashtra State, INDIA | |
| interests: | Study of bacteriophages of Salmonella spp. pathogenic to humans and poultry. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Ralph Bickerdike | --- | Comparative Immunology Research Group, Gatty Marine Laboratory, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews Fife KY16 8LB UK | |
| interests: | I am currently investigating the chemical ecology (antimicrobial defence) of microalgae, although my interest spans the whole microbial flora. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Jeffrey L. Blanchard | PI | Department of Microbiology, 203 Morrill Science Center IVN, University of Massachusetts, 639 North Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01003 | |
| interests: | Using microbial systems to test evolutionary theory, microbial systematics, genomic evolution, thermophilic phages. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Brendan J. Bohannan | PI | Department of Biology, 1210 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1210 | |
| interests: | Phage-bacteria community ecology, coevolution of phage and bacteria, ecological role of phage in natural microbial communities, phage and bacteria as model organisms to test ecological and evolutionary theory. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Bharat Bongale | --- | 211-41 Woodridge Crescent, Nepean, Ontario K2B 7T6, Canada | |
| interests: | Phage Therapy. Currently working on application of bacteriophages on Campylobacter. It is one of the major problem in beef, poultry and swine industry, in North America. My work includes collection, isolation and characterization of phages from environment. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Knut Yngve Børsheim | PI | Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Biotechnology, N-7491 Trondheim, Norway | |
| interests: | Aquatic microbial ecology (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Seth Bordenstein | PI | 7 MBL Street, The Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA 02543 | |
| interests: | Structure, function, and evolution of bacteriophages in obligate intracellular symbionts. My main study system is the widespread and heritable bacterium Wolbachia that infects numerous arthropod and nematode species. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Angus Buckling | PI | Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK | |
| interests: | Bacteria-phage antagonistic coevolution; phage as drivers of bacterial diversity; evolution of phage life histories. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| James J. Bull | PI | University of Texas at Austin, NSF Org DEB, P.O. Box 7726, Austin, Texas 78713-7726 | |
| interests: | Experimental evolution, phylogenetics, and molecular ecology. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Christina Burch | PI | CB# 3280, Coker Hall, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3280 | |
| interests: | I have used the bacteriophage f6 as a model system to examine whether conceptual frameworks such as Fisher's geometric model of adaptation and Wright's adaptive landscape accurately predict the genetics of adaptation. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Karin Carlson | PI | Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Uppsala Biomedical Center, Box 581, S-751 23 Uppsala, SWEDEN | |
| interests: | host-parasite interactions, protein-DNA interactions, growth of phage under "natural" conditions, evolution of bacteriophage. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Richard M. Carlton | PI | CST Technology Group, LLC, 3 Secor Drive, Port Washington, NY 11050 | |
| interests: | Consultant on pre-clinical and clinical issues regarding phage therapy. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Nina Chanishvili | PI | Kazbegi street, 41, VERA region, 380079, Tbilisi, Georgia | |
| interests: | Bacteriophage therapy and impact of bacteriophages on industrial processes. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Tom Chen | --- | Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan university, PO BOX 23-13, Taipei, Taiwan | |
| interests: | (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Zehua Chen | --- | Boston College - Biology Department, 140 Commonwealth Ave., Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 | |
| interests: | Molecular information theory based T7-like promoter models and SD models; Evolutionary analysis and classification of T7-like phages and their transcription systems; Analysis of T7-like promoter containing regions in microbial genomes. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Aidan Coffey | PI | Department of Biological Sciences Cork Institute of Technology, Rossa Avenue, Cork, Ireland | |
| interests: | Use of bacteriophages and bacteriophage lytic enzymes as biocontrol agents; Impact of bacteriophages on dairy fermentations. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| John Dennehy | PI | Biology Department, Queens College, City University of New York, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing, New York 11367 | |
| interests: | Using phage f6 to study cooperation, cheating, life history, evolution of sex. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Allan L. Delisle | PI | Associate Professor of Microbiology, Dept. of O.C.B.S., School of Dentistry, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore, Baltimore, MD 21201 | |
| interests: | I've had a long-standing interest in, and have worked with many, phages of oral bacteria, both gram-negatives and gram-positives. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Sergio F. Martinez Diaz | PI | Interdisciplinary Center of Marine Science, Microbiology Lab, Playa el Conchalito sn, La Paz BCS, Mexico CP 23060 | |
| interests: | Relation between phage and pathogenic bacteria. We isolate Vibriophages from samples of the California Gulf. Our interest in phages to Vibrio is because the importance of this genus in the marine environment and in marine aquaculture. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| M. R. Djobedar | PI | no1 2nd floor 15th st., takhti st., fereshte st., valie-asr ave., Tehran 1965836351 IRAN | |
| interests: | The unicellular microalgea Chlorella (vulgaris). (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Lorenzo Drago | PI | Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology, Department of Preclinical Science Disp "LITA", University of Milan, Via G.B. Grassi, 74, 20157 Milan - Italy | |
| interests: | Phage therapy against multi-drug resistant bacteria. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Siobain Duffy | --- | Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA | |
| interests: | Phage as model viral systems; Experimental evolution; Disease ecology and evolution. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Michael S. DuBow | PI | Institut de Genetique et Microbiologie, Bâtiment 409, Université Paris Sud, 91405 Orsay France | |
| interests: | Biodiversity of phages in natural environments, specifically sediments and deserts. Functional genomics of bacteriophages to identify genes that affect microbial biofilms and pathogenicity. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Donna H. Duckworth | PI | 8602 NW 156 Ave, Alachua, Fl., 32615 | |
| interests: | Phage biology, the interaction of phages with each other and with plasmids, phage therapy, and use of phage for decontamination. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Mike Dyall-Smith | PI | Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, 3052 Australia | |
| interests: | Viruses of halobacteria; we have isolated several of these from local hypersaline lakes over the last 5 years. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Abraham Eisenstark | PI | Cancer Research Center, 3501 Berrywood Drive, Coulmbia, MO. 65201 | |
| interests: | Salmonella Bacteriophage genomics. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Doug Escribano | --- | 200 Pinehurst Ave, #4H New York, NY 10033 (at Marine Science Research Ctr, SUNY Stony Brook) | |
| interests: | Marine bacteriophage ecology and evolution. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Michael Feldgarden | --- | Dept. of Biology, Rm. 257, Hall-Atwater Labs., Lawn Ave., Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 06459-0170 | |
| interests: | The role of Bacillus subtilis phage in determining the population turnover in Bacillus populations; Bacillus phage dynamics. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Derrick E. Fouts | --- | The Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, MD 20850 | |
| interests: | I am interested in bacteriophage genomics/bioinformatics. Specifically, I am interested in sequencing bacteriophages, comparing lytic, lysogenic and prophage genomes, and developing software to accurately identify and annotate prophage regions in completely sequenced bacterial genomes. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Graeme Frith | --- | Dr. Graeme K. Frith, COO, BioDiagnostics Limited, c/o The IAH, Compton, Newbury, Berks, UK, RG7 6HQ | |
| interests: | I am specifically interested in the use of phages for detecting bacterial pathogens using a variety of platforms. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Jed Fuhrman | PI | Dept. of Biological Sciences, MC-0371, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0371 | |
| interests: | Roles of phage in aquatic ecosystems: Rates of phage production and corresponding rates of mortality of hosts. Fates of phage and cell lysis products in the food web, and influence on nutrient cycling. Phage diversity and its relationships with host diversity. Extent of lysogeny and chronic infections. Factors controlling resistance. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Jason Gill | --- | Biochemistry & Biophysics, 2128 TAMU, Rm. 336, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-2128 | |
| interests: | Phage therapy against plant and animal pathogenic bacteria. Current work is focusing on prophylaxis and/or treatment of Burkholderia cenocepacia infections. Includes novel phage characterization, genomics, and phage-host interactions. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Ido Golding | PI | Department of Physics, 1110 West Green St. , Urbana, IL 61801-3080 | |
| interests: | We study the interaction between phage lambda and its host, Escherichia coli. I have developed and applied new quantitative tools for probing cellular interactions within these systems by combining genetic manipulation and high sensitivity fluorescence imaging. This strategy allows us to follow dynamic processes in individual cells, in real time, with a single-event resolution. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Robert Goldman | --- | Section of Intergrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78735 | |
| interests: | Role of phage in natural microbial communities, particularly soil environments; the isolation and characterization of phage from natural communities; the use of phage and bacteria as experimental systems to test evolutionary and ecological hypotheses; phage therapy; diversity and abundance of phage in microbial communities associated with native prairie grasses. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Lawrence D. Goodridge | PI | Assistant Professor of Food Microbiology, Center for Red Meat Safety, Department of Animal Sciences, Colorado State University, 350 West Pitkin Street, Fort Collins, Co, 80523-1171 | |
| interests: | Food bacteriophagy including bacterial identification and food safety. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Sabarinathan K. Gopalasubramaniam | --- | Tamil Nadu Agricultural University ,Coimbatore,Tamil nadu, INDIA | |
| interests: | Identification of bacteriophages infecting cyanobacteria, particularly Spirulina spp., plus controlling cyanobacterial blooms using bacteriophages. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Tai-You Ha | PI | Chonbuk National University Medical School, #1101, 110-Dong Inhoo Hanshin Hyupluss Apt, 1029 Inhoodong 1-Ka, Dukjinku, Chonju, Chonbuk 561-182, South Korea | |
| interests: | Phage therapy. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Cameron Haase-Pettingell | --- | MIT, 68-330 77 Mass Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139 | |
| interests: | Phage of cyanobacteria and their relationships in the open ocean. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Sidney Hayes | PI | Department of Microbiology and Immunlogy, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatc hewan [SK] S7N 5E5, Canada | |
| interests: | (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Jack Heinemann | PI | School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand | |
| interests: | Genetics and molecular biology of prokaryotic and eukaryotic microorganisms; horizontal gene transfer, particularly conjugation and bacteriophage; effects of stress, particularly those induced by antibiotics; effects of stress and horizontal gene transfer on chromosome and extrachromosomal gene organisation; evolution and genetic engineering risk assessment; influence of language on science. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Richard Herman | --- | Viridax Corporation, 19211 64th Place NE, Kenmore, WA 98028-3380 | |
| interests: | Phage display and the development of phage therapy for use against antibiotic resistant bacteria; current target is methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Michael W. Heuzenroeder | --- | Infectious Diseases Laboratories, Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science; Mail address: PO Box 14, Rundle Mall, Adelaide, SA, 5000, Australia; Street address: Gate 7, RAH Campus, Frome Road, Adelaide, South Australia | |
| interests: | Significance of temperate phage in Salmonella and their influence upon epidemiology and typing systems. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Russell T. Hill | PI | Center of Marine Biotechnology, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, Suite 236, 701 East Pratt Street, Baltimore MD 21202 | |
| interests: | Symbionts of marine invertebrates. Use of phages to manipulate microbial community composition. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Naomi Hoyle | --- | Lab 1, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA 98505 | |
| interests: | My main interests are in phages for people. I am currently working with Pseudomonas phages. I plan to become a Naturopathic Doctor and incorporate phages into my medical practice. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Paul Hyman | PI | MedCentral College of Nursing, 335 Glessner Avenue, Mansfield OH 44903-2265 | |
| interests: | Molecular biology of phage adaptation and phage structural biology. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Anna Ivanova | PI |
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Department of Physics, Tbilisi State University, 3, Chavchavadze str., 0128, Tbilisi, Georgia |
| interests: | Physico-chemical properties of bacteriophages and their receptors (for example, thermal and hydrodynamical properties); also phage DNA ejection in a model system consisting of phages, bacterial membrane fragments, and receptors. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Sabah Jassim | PI | Head of Microbiology Department, Zayed Complex for Herbal Research & Traditional Medicine, P.O Box: 3542, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates | |
| interests: | Phage-breeding, phage-amplification, and phage-based biocontrol and bioprocessing technologies, with specific emphasis on EHEC and VTEC O157 phages. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Juan Jofre | --- | Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona, Diagonal 645. 08028 Barcelona. (Spain.) | |
| interests: | Use of phages as indicators of faecal pollution in the environment (specifically water and compost models). Establishments of different methodologies (ISO) for the enumeration of phages as indicators. Development of the ISO method for enumeration of Bacteroides fragilis phages. Research on bacteriophages as elements for horizontal genetic transfer. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Jeffrey B. Jones | PI | University of Florida, Plant Pathology Dept., Gainesville, FL 32611 | |
| interests: | Integrated approach to controlling bacterial diseases of plants. We are using phage therapy for this IPM approach. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Matt Jones | --- | OmniLytics, Inc., 5450 W. Wiley Post Way, Salt Lake City, UT 84116 | |
| interests: | Development and optimization of commercial bacteriophage applications in agriculture, food & water safety, industrial, pharmaceutical, and defense. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Ariel Kalchenk | --- | 20 Ha'shriyon St., Ra'anana, 43266, Israel | |
| interests: | Phage therapy, using bacteriophages as antimicrobal agents. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Raymond L. Kepner, Jr. | PI | Biology Department, Marist College, 238 Donnelly Hall, 3399 North Road, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 | |
| interests: | Aquatic microbial ecology, freshwater cyanophage and bacteriophage, polar limnology, extremophiles. I am currently working on the isolation and characterization of UOPs from the Canadian High Arctic, Antarctica, and the Hudson River. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Mariam Khvedelidze | PI |
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Iv. Javakhishvili State University of Tbilisi, Department of Physics, Chair of Physics of Macromolecules, 3, Chavchavadze Av., 0128, Tbilisi, Rep. of Georgia |
| interests: | Biophysical investigation of the early stage of the infection process in a model system using the fragments of bacterial membrane and bacteriophage; development of physical methods for realization the study of effective substitute for antibiotics; injection of phage DNA into liposomes. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Jonathan King | PI | MIT, 68-330 77 Mass Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139 | |
| interests: | Phage of cyanobacteria and their relationships in the open ocean. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Athol V. Klieve | PI | Queensland Department of Primary Industries, Animal Research Institute, Locked Mail Bag, No. 4, Moorooka, Qld. 4105, AUSTRALIA | |
| interests: | Role of bacteriophages in the rumen ecosystem and the downsteam impact that phage-mediated bacterial lysis has on the nutrition of ruminants in agricultural systems. Use of bacteriophages and archaeal viruses to manipulate the rumen ecosystem. Phages that carry Shiga-toxin genes and their ecology in relation to E. coli. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Adeniran Koko | --- | Dept.of Botany and Microbiology, University of Lagos, Akoka, Nigeria | |
| interests: | Isolation of phages from various marine sources; phage therapy particularly of Staphylococcus,Psuedomonas and E.coli; and electron microscopy and classification of phages in Nigeria. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Andrew M. Kropinski | PI | Program Lead, Host & Pathogen Determinants, Laboratory for Foodborne Zoonoses, Public Health Agency of Canada, 110 Stone Road West, Guelph, Ontario N1G 3W4, Canada | |
| interests: | Bacteriophage genomics, evolution, and classification. My laboratory has contributed to the sequencing and/or annotation of a large number of bacteriophage genomes and, with the arrival of 454 sequencing, are planning on analyzing many others at LFZ or in collaboration with other scientists. I also curate Online Analysis Tool, an annotated webpage of Internet resources for molecular biologists. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Gregory P. Krukonis | --- |
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Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR (occasional affiliation, not address) |
| interests: | See, e.g., http://tinyurl.com/3ymcal. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Victor Krylov | PI |
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The State Institute for Genetics and Selection of Industrial microorganisms, 1-st Dorozhnii proezd, 1, Moscow 113545, RUSSIA |
| interests: | Studying phages of pseudomonads of the fluorescent group, mainly transposable Syphoviridae phages, giant phiKZ-like phages, and newly isolated phage species with unique features. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Ipek Kurtboke | PI |
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Lecturer in Environmental Microbiology, Faculty of Science, University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore DC, Queensland 4558, Australia |
| interests: | Exploitation of phage-host interactions for biological control applications (agriculture, aquaculture, food industry, and biotherapy), use of bacteriophages in bacterial taxonomy, use of phage battery for selective isolation of industrially important bacteria, and marine bacteriophages. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Elizabeth (Betty) Kutter | PI | Lab 1, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA 98505 | |
| interests: | Therapeutic applications of phages, phage ecology, genomics, molecular mechanisms, evolution, and effects of host physiology on the infection process, with special focus on phages of E. coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Lee H. Lee | PI | Dept. of Biology & Molecular Biology, Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 | |
| interests: | 1. Microorganisms as environmental indicators to study heavy metal contamination; 2. Cyanophage AS-1 capsid proteins; 3. Isolation of novel bacteria associated with marine algae and screening for possible antibiotics/antiviral substances; 4. Genome project of cyanophage AS-1 and cyanobacteria Anacystis nidulans. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Eli Magen | PI | Clinical Immunology and Allergy unit, Barzilai Medical center, Medicine B Department, BenGurion University of Negev, Ashkelon, Israel | |
| interests: | Phage therapy and bacteriophage-host interactions from immunological point of view. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Saligrama V. Manjunath | --- | Dept. of Plant pathology UAS, GKVK, Bangalore, India-560065 | |
| interests: | Phages of Ralstonia solanacearum and their efficacy in the control bacterial wilt of solanaceous crops. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Nicholas H. Mann | PI | Department of Biological Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL UK | |
| interests: | Development of phage therapy approaches to preventing and treating Staphylococcus aureus infections. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Silvana Martin | --- | Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Fundación Pablo Cassará, Saladillo 2452 CP 1440, Buenos Aires - Argentina | |
| interests: | Isolation and characterization of phages for treatment o chronic infections of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in cystic fibrosis patients. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Michael McMenamy | --- | Queens University Belfast, School of Agriculture and Food Science, Food Science Department, Food Microbial Technology, Belfast BT9 5PX, N. Ireland | |
| interests: | The lysogenic / lytic switch and induction of temperate phage by food-compatible / non-mutagenic methods as a means of controlling food-borne pathogens. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| W. Michael McShan | PI | Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, BMSB 1053, 940 S.L. Young Blvd., Oklahoma City, OK 73130 | |
| interests: | Genetics and ecology of T12 and other temperate bacteriophages of Streptococcus pyogenes; spread of bacteriophage-associated virulence genes by recombination between phage genomes leading to host range expansion; bacteriophage integration sites in the bacterial genome; genome sequencing. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Tamaz Mdzinarashvili | PI | Iv. Javakhishvili State University of Tbilisi, Department of Physics, Chair of Physics of Macromolecules, 3, Chavchavadze Av., 0128, Tbilisi, Rep. of Georgia | |
| interests: | DNA organization inside phage, DNA ejection process, early stages of the process of viral infection; thermal properties of receptors for phages and bacterial membrane fragments by means of biophysical methods (calorimetry, viscometry, spectrophotometry). (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Carl R. Merril | EM | 6840 Capri Place Bethesda, MD 20817 | |
| interests: | (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Mathias Middelboe | PI | Marine Biological Laboratory, University of Copenhagen Strandpromenaden 5, DK-3000 Helsingor, Denmark | |
| interests: | Phage-host dynamics, effects of viruses on bacterial and algal population dynamics, role of viruses for pelagic nutient cycling, benthic viruses (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Stefan Miller | PI | PROFOS AG, Josef-Engert Str. 9 D-93053 Regensburg, Germany | |
| interests: | Biotechnological application of bacteriophages and bacteriophage-proteins.(contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| John E. Mittler | PI | University of Washington School of Medicine, Dept of Microbiology, Box 357740, Seattle, WA 98195 | |
| interests: | Mathematical modeling of viral dynamics. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Sylvain Moineau | PI | Professeur agrégé / Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Faculté des sciences et de genie, Université Laval, Québec, Canada, G1K 7P4 | |
| interests: | My research group focuses on phages of Lactococcus lactis and Streptococcus thermophilus. These dairy phages are investigated from several aspects such as classification, control, detection, ecology, evolution, genomic and proteomic. I also administer the Félix d'Hérelle Reference Center for Bacterial Viruses. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Maite Muniesa | --- | Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona, Diagonal 645. 08028 Barcelona. (Spain.) | |
| interests: | Model indicator organisms of faecal contamination in water; environmental (sewage) detection and characterization of bacteria (particularly E. coli O157:H7) and bacteriophages carrying the Stx2 gene; role of phages in spreading virulence factors between bacterial populations and emergence of new pathogenic bacterial strains. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Tami Mysliwiec | PI | Penn State Berks-Lehigh Valley College, Tulpehocken Rd, Reading, PA 19610-6009 | |
| interests: | Understanding how spore-converting bacteriohpages alter host cell physiology. My research involves understanding how the spore-converting bacteriophage, SP10, suppresses the sporulation defect in a spo0J null mutant of Bacillus subtilis. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Toshihiro Nakai | PI | Graduate School of Biosphere Science, Hiroshima University, Higashihiroshima 739-8528, Japan | |
| interests: | Phage therapy of fish. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Daniel Nelson | PI | University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology, 9600 Gudelsky Drive, Rockville, MD 20850 | |
| interests: | Bacteriophage lytic enzymes and experimental bacteriophage therapies. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Kate Newton | --- | Department of Microbiology, University of Liverpool John Moores, L3 3AF. England | |
| interests: | Interactions between phage as competitors in environments similar to that of sewage. In particular, comparisons of host range, replication speeds, structure, and attachment. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Lemuel Benedict R. Non | PI | College of Medicine. University of the Philippines - Manile | |
| interests: | Bacteriophage therapy of Escherichia coli-infected bacteremic mice. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Kara J. O’Keefe | --- | Center for Animal Disease Modeling and Surveillance, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, USA | |
| interests: | Population biology of cystoviruses (f6 and relatives); the role of geography in natural phage populations--geographic population size, dispersal distance, gene flow… (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Richard J. Obiso Jr. | PI | Director, Life Sciences Division, Luna Innovations Inc, 3157 State Street, Blacksburg, VA 24060 | |
| interests: | At Luna Innovations, we are committed to utilizing bacteriophages in three areas: detection, decontamination of food pathogens, and, in bacteriophage therapy. We have a number of bacteriophages that will enter the food market and we are looking forward to novel bacteriophage therapy concepts. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Oladele (Dele) Abiola Ogunseitan |
PI | College of Health Sciences & Professor of Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-7070 | |
| interests: | Environmental and public health applications of microbial ecology and biochemistry. Water quality and pollution control. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Aldwin Ong | --- | Department of Biology, Ateneo de Manila University, Loyola Heights, Quezon City, Philippines | |
| interests: | Use of mitomycin-C for lytic cycle induction of temperate bacteriophage in Escherichia coli MH2700 and some other pathogenic bacteria. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| S. Somnath Pai | --- | National Centre for Aquatic Animal Health, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Lakeside Campus, Fine Arts Avenue, Kochi - 682 016, Kerala, India | |
| interests: | Development of phage therapy for Vibrio infections in prawn larviculture and study phage ecology in hatchery and estuarine systems. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| John H. Paul | PI | University of South Florida, Department of Marine Sciences, 140 Seventh Avenue South, St. Petersburg, FL 33701 | |
| interests: | Viruses in the marine environment, focusing on lysogeny. We have determined a seasonality in lysogeny, with few inducible lysogens in winter, but a dramatic increase occurring in early spring (February in Florida) that continues throughout the summer. Another component of our research involves development of molecular methods to detect human pathogenic RNA viruses in coastal surface and ground waters. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Peter Peduzzi | PI | Microbial Ecology Group, Department of Freshwater Ecology, Institute of Ecology and Conservation Biology, University of Vienna, A-1090 Vienna, Austria | |
| interests: | Role of aquatic viruses in microbial and microbially mediated processes, material and energy fluxes in aquatic systems, microbial diversity; currently running program on virus and bacterial ecology in lake and river floodplain-systems. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Leonard Peruski | PI | Associate Professor, Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Northwest Center, 3400 Broadway, Gary, Indiana 46408-1197 | |
| interests: | Evolution of bacteriophage that infect the Bacillus cereus genetic group, with special emphasis on lytic and temperate phage of B. anthracis. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Poh-Choo Pang | --- | Institute of Biological Sciences (Genetics), Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, 50603 KUala Lumpur, Malaysia | |
| interests: | Isolation and characterization of vibriophages from the environment. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Ramesh Prakash | PI | OmniLytics, Inc., 5450 W. Wiley Post Way, Salt Lake City, UT 84116 | |
| interests: | Development and optimization of commercial bacteriophage applications in agriculture, food & water safety, industrial, pharmaceutical, and defense. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| David Prangishvili | PI | Biologie Moleculaire du Gene chez les Extremophiles, Institut Pasteur, 25, rue du Dr. Roux, 75724 Paris Cedex 15, France | |
| interests: | Molecular biology of hyperthermophilic Archaea, isolation and characterization of their viruses, origin and evolution of viruses. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Anupama Byrappa Ramalinga | --- | >Gangagen biotechnologies, Bangalore, INDIA | |
| interests: | Bacteriophage therapy, especially for vancomycin-resistant enterococci and Pseudomonas infections, and biology of phages isolated from natural sources. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Raúl Ricardo Raya | PI | CERELA - Chacabuco 145, 4000 - S M Tucuman, Tucuman Argentina | |
| interests: | Genetics and molecular biology of thermophillic Lactobacillus. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Matthew Robison | --- | 3138 Overhulse Rd NW I81, Olympia WA. 98502 | |
| interests: | (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Frederic Ropiquet | PI | LBP Agro-Pharma, Toulouse, France | |
| interests: | Phage therapy (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Esmail Samiwala | PI | Merind Limited (A Wockhardt Enterprise), Mulund Goregaon Link Road, Bhandup (w), Mumbai 400 078, INDIA | |
| interests: | We manufacture vitamin B12 which happens to be a fermentation process and highly prone to bacteriophage attacks. If the manufacturing site starts showing phage attacks, steps that need to be taken to counter the problem have to be studied in detail and implemented. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Ruth-Anne Sandaa | --- | Department of Biology, Postboks 7800, University of Bergen, Norway | |
| interests: | Molecular diversity and ecology of viruses and bacteria in environmental samples. Especially the influence of phages on bacterial population dynamics in marine ecosystems. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| B. L. Sarkar | PI | Assistant Director, Vibrio Phage Reference Laboratory, National Institute of Cholera & Enteric Diseases (ICMR), WHO Collaborating Centre for Diarrheal Diseases Research & training, P-33, CIT Road, scheme XM, KOLKATA -700 010, INDIA | |
| interests: | Vibrio phage. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Elise Schnabel | --- | Clemson University, Genetics and Biochemistry, 100 Jordan Hall, Clemson, SC 29634 | |
| interests: | Prophylactic phage therapy of fruit-bearing trees. Specifically concerning the control of Erwinia amylovora, the causal agent of fire blight on apple and pear trees. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Eduardo C. Schröder | PI | BNF Laboratory, P. O. Box 9030, Department of Agronomy and Soils, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, PR 00681-9030 USA | |
| interests: | Phages specific for Nitrogen Fixing Bacteria (Azospirillum, Bradyrhizobium, Rhizobium, etc.); their ecology, host range and characterization. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Andrew Scott | --- | 48 City Road, Beeston, Notts, UK, NG9 2LQ | |
| interests: | Analysis of phage resistant Campylobacter. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Lidia Semchuk | PI | Department of Virology of the Biological Faculty of Taras Shevchenko Kiev National University, 02033 Volodimirska 64., Kiev, Ukraine | |
| interests: | Phytopathogenic bacteria bacteriophages: isolation from environment, identification, their ecology, host range, and characterization. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Manan Sharma | PI | USDA-ARS, ANRI, Food Technology and Safety Lab, Bldg. 201, BARC-East, 10300 Baltimore Ave., Beltsville, MD 20705 | |
| interests: | Food safety, specifically using bacteriophages as a pre-harvest and post-harvest intervention on leafy greens. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Télesphore Sime-Ngando | PI | Laboratoire de Biologie des Protistes, Université Blaise Pascal, F - 63177 Aubière Cedex, France | |
| interests: | Phage-bacteria community ecology in freshwaters ecosystems. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Ruben Sommaruga | PI | University of Innsbruck, Institute of Ecology, Laboratory of Aquatic Photobiology and Plankton Ecology. Technikerstr. 25, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria | |
| interests: | Aquatic viruses. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Shanmuga Sozhamannan | PI | Biological Defense Research Directorate, Naval Medical Research Center, BDRD Annex, 12300 Washington Avenue, Rockville, MD 20852 | |
| interests: | I am interested in the biology of phages infecting bacterial pathogens relevant to biodefense and the use of phages in various biodefense applications such as bacterial detection, vaccine development and therapeutics. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Roy Stevens | PI | Department of Endodontics, Director, Oral Infectious Diseases Research Laboratory, Temple University School of Dentistry, 3223 N. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19140 | |
| interests: | Bacteriophges that infect strains of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans; relationship between these phages and disease (periodontal disease) in patients infectected with A. actinomycetemcomitans. Phages of Enterococcus faecalis that we have isolated from infected root canals. I am interested in looking at whether these phages alter the properties of the host cells that they infect, and whether it may be feasible to obtain antimicrobial (anti-Enterococcal)agents from the lysins/holins produced by these phages. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Grieg F. Steward | PI | Department of Oceanography, School of Ocean & Earth Science & Technology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1000 Pope Road, Honolulu, HI 96822 | |
| interests: | Molecular diversity and ecology of bacteria and viruses. The influence of phages on bacterial population dynamics in aquatic ecosystems. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Juan E. Suárez | PI | Area de Microbiologia, Facultad de Medicina, Julian Claveria 6, E-33006 Oviedo, Spain Telephone: +34 985103559 | |
| interests: | We work with phages that infect lactic acid bacteria, mainly those active on industrial starters but also on those affecting probiotic bacteria. We are starting a new line on phage therapeutics, taking advantage of our location in a Faculty of Medicine that has an adjunct hospital. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Matthew B. Sullivan | --- | 77 Massachusetts Avenue, 48-208, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139 | |
| interests: | Interactions of cyanophage on the oceanic primary producers, Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Curtis Suttle | PI | Earth & Ocean Sciences, University of British Columbia, Rm 1461 Biological Science, 6270 University Blvd, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, CANADA. | |
| interests: | Ecology and biology of viruses that infect marine bacteria, cyanobacteria and protists. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Lin Tao | PI | Associate Professor, Department of Oral Biology, College of Dentistry, M/C 690, University of Illinois at Chicago, 801 S. Paulina Street, Chicago, IL 60612, USA | |
| interests: | Phage-lactobacillus interaction, lactobacillus phage taxonomy and classification, symbiosis and coevolution among women, their vaginal lactobacilli and phages, and the role of sexually transmissible phages in the health and diseases of women. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Marjolijn Tijdens | --- | NIOO-KNAW-Centre for Limnology, Microbial Ecology department, Postbus 1299, 3600 BG Maarssen | |
| interests: | Ecology of freshwater bacteriophages infecting cyanobacteria. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Paul E. Turner | PI | Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, Osborn Memorial Laboratories, 165 Prospect Street, PO Box 208106, New Haven, CT 06520-8106 | |
| interests: | Evolutionary and ecological genetics of RNA viruses, especially phage phi-6 that infects Pseudomonas and vesicular stomatitis virus that infects mammalian hosts. Recent work involves intracellular competition among coinfecting viruses, and application of game theory to viral evolution. General interests include evolution of virulence, and evolution of genetic exchange (sex). (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Jumpei Uchiyama | --- | Japan | |
| interests: | Relationship between the human normal microflora and bacteriophage, bacteriophage therapy, and the relation between environmental bacteriophage and humans. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Constantinos A. Vorkas | PI | 1, Ouralion Street, P.O. Box 53321 CY-3302 Limassol, CYPRUS | |
| interests: | Wastewater treatment and disposal, Water treatment, Appropriate technologies in water and wastewater treatment, Pollution control and water resources management, Environmental health, Wastewater reuse, Water supply surveillance & quality control, Environmental and catchment surveillance (GIS, Remote surveillance, Biotic monitoring), New methods in microbiological and environmental monitoring. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Michael H. Walter | PI | Dept. of Biology, MSH 144, UNI, Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0421 | |
| interests: | Species richness and characterization of Bacillus cereus group phages. What estimates of diversity can be obtained using only structural protein profiles? How can phages serve in protection from, and control of bacterial infections, such as anthrax disease? Can phages serve as affinity reagents in spore detection instrumentation by binding host cells or spores? (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Ing-Nang Wang | PI | Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biological Sciences, University at Albany, State University of New York, 1400 Washington Ave., Albany, NY 12222 | |
| interests: | Evolution of bacteriophage lysis timing, evolution of bacteriophage life history traits, experimental evolution using lambda phage as a model system, molecular population genetics of bacteriophages, lysis proteins of ssRNA phages and their cellular targets. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Kui Wang | --- | Center of Marine Biotechnology, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, University of Maryland, College Park | |
| interests: | I am interested in the ecology and evolution of cyanophage. I have been working on isolation of cyanophages infecting unicellular Synechococcus spp. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Markus Weinbauer | PI | Laboratoire d'Oc‚anogique de Villefranche (LOV), UMR 7093 CNRS-UPMC, BP 28, F-06234 Villefranche-sur-mer CEDEX France | |
| interests: | Distribution of lytic and lysogenic life cycles in natural marine-virus communities; effect of viral lysis on bacterial mortality and element cycling; viral diversity and effect of phages on marine bacterial diversity; phage-host interactions; evolution of viruses and their subcellular relatives, the transposable elements. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Holly A. Wichman | PI | Dept. of Biological Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow ID 83844-3051 | |
| interests: | Evolution of viruses and their subcellular relatives, the transposable elements. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Steven W. Wilhelm | PI | Department of Microbiology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-0845 | |
| interests: | Activity of viruses (bacteriophage and cyanophage) in marine and freshwater systems. | ||
| K. Eric Wommack | --- | School of Marine Programs, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602 | |
| interests: | Virioplankton population dynamics. The determinants of species diversity within bacterio- and phytoplankton communities. Application of macroecological principals to aquatic microbial ecology. Bioremediation of enantiomeric pollutants. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Yanhui Yang | --- | Center for Marine Environmental Studies, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, P. R. China | |
| interests: | Relationship between virus and prokaryotic picoplankton in estuary, coastal zone, shelf sea and open waters. Changes in diversity and community structure of viral and picoplankton community along eco-type gradients. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| John Yin | PI | Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706-1607 | |
| interests: | Developing theoretical and experimental tools to study the growth and evolution of viruses. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Sung-Sik Yoon | PI | Department of Biological Resources and Technology, College of Arts and Sciences, Yonsei University, Kangwon-do, Wonju 220-710, South Korea | |
| interests: | Lactic acid bacteria(LAB) bacteriophages from fermented vegetables which include isolation and characterization, analysis of genetic make-up of holin and endolysin gene, lysogenicity of phage, and phage-resistance mechanisms. Bacteriocins produced from Leuconostoc species. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Yukio Yoshizawa | PI | Radioisotope Reseach Center, Jikei Unoversity School of Medicine, 3-25-8 Nishishimbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-8461, JAPAN | |
| interests: | Phage-conversion of bacterial toxins, especially that of Staphylocuccus aureus. (contents | BEG members | top of page) | ||
| Ry Young | PI | , | Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics,Texas A&M University 2128 TAMU, College Station TX USA 77843-2128; sabbatical address: Unite de Genetique, Moleculaire, Institute Pasteur, 25, rue de Dr. Roux, 75724 |