| name/e-mail |
department |
research interests (press for home page) |
| Abedon, Stephen T. | Microbiology | Bacteriophage ecology, lysis, virulence, and therapy |
| Ahmer, Brian | Microbiology | Characterization of the SdiA and SirA regulons of Salmonella typhimurium |
| Alben, James O. | Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry | Structural chemistry and biological control of dioxygen transport and reduction by respiratoryproteins; cytochrome c oxidase; bacterial oxidases |
| Alfonzo, Juan | Microbiology | RNA processing events that are unique to trypanosomes and could be exploited as targets for the design of therapies against protozoan diseases. |
| Artsimovitch, Irina | Microbiology | Molecular mechanism of RNA chain elongation; regulatory proteins that modulate processivity of RNA polymerase in bacteria |
| Ayers, Leona W. | Pathology | AIDS Malignancy Bank; pulmonary diseases associated with microbes; antibiotics |
| Baker, Neil R. | Microbiology | Patthogenicity of Gram-negative pathogens |
| Balasubramaniam, Bala | Food Science and Technology | Microbial inactivation kinetics of novel food processes; pasteurization and sterilization aspects of advanced pressure pulsed electric field, and aseptic processes |
| Bauer, W. Dietz | Horticulture and Crop Science | Soil microbiology, rhizophere biology and ecology |
| Bell, Charles E.. | Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry | DNA strand-exchange proteins RecA from E. coli and Rad51 of yeast and humans, as well as other molecules that interact with RecA and Rad51 |
| Bisaro, David M. | Molecular Genetics | Molecular biology of geminiviruses; regulation of viral DNA replication & transcription; mechanisms of virus transmission by whiteflies; engineering plants for resistance to geminivirus |
| Boehm, Michael | Plant Pathology | Diseases of turf grass and microbial ecology of soils |
| Boerner, Ralph E. J. | EEOB | Analysis of functional roles of soil microbes and mesofauna in nutrient cycling |
| Bonello, Pierluigi "Enrico" | Plant Pathology | Fungal tree pathology, molecular ecology of ectomycorrhizal fungi, and ecology of multi-party systems |
| Boris-Lawrie, K. | Veterinary Biosciences | Regulation of retroviral replication, post-trancriptional control of gene expression, therapeutic retroviral vectors. |
| Breitenberger, Caroline A. | Biochemistry | Targetting and regulation of expression of nuclear genes encoding chloroplast and mitochondrial protein |
| Bryant, Paula W. | Microbiology | Role of MHC-restricted antigen presentation in the immune response against invading microbial pathogens and tumors |
| Buesching, William J. | Pathology | Clinical microbiology, Candida albicans, cytomegaloviru |
| Chang, Tien-Hsien | Molecular Genetics | Yeast RNA helicases involved in nuclear pre-mRNA splicing, mRNA export & translation |
| Coplin, David Louis | Plant Pathology | Molecular biology of plant-bacteria interactions; genetics of the corn pathogen, Pantoea stewartii |
| Daniels, Charles J. | Microbiology | Archaea molecular biology:RNA processing, regulation of gene expression, evolution of the transcriptional apparatus, and genome analysis |
| Dean, Donald H. | Biochemistry | Protein engineering and genetic engineering of Bacillus thuringiensis insecticidal proteins |
| Dehority, Burk Allyn | Animal Science | Rumen microbiology |
| Dick, Richard K. | Soil Science | Ecosystem management impacts determined using soil biochemical processes and microbial community techniques |
| Dick, Warren A. | School Of Natural Resources | Microbiology of pesticide and xenobiotic degradation, especially degradation by the Gram positive Rhodococcus |
| Dorrance, Anne E. | Plant Pathology | Evaluation of soybean germplasm for resistance to Phytophthora sojae and Sclerotinia sclerotiorum |
| Ellis, Michael Alvin | Plant Pathology | Epidemiology, etiology and ecology of the major fungal pathogens on strawberries, grapes and apples |
| Firkins, Jeffrey L. | Animal Science | Microbiology of cattle nutrition |
| Fisher, Susan W. | Entomology | Methods for monitoring the environmental fate of genetically engineered microorganisms, their genes and gene products |
| Foster, Woodbridge A. | Entomology | Disease vector biology |
| Francis, David M. | Horticulture and Crop Science | Plant-pathogen coevolution; population genetics of plant pathogens |
| Fredrick, Kurt | Microbiology | Biochemistry and molecular immunology of bacterial toxins and virulence factors, genetic regulation of toxin and protease production, DNA vaccines |
| Fuerst, Paul A. | Molecular Genetics | Genetic study of populations of obligate intracellular microorganisms (members of the Rickettsiaceae) |
| Funk, Julie | Veterinary Preventive Medicine | Epidemiology of food borne diseases and antimicrobial resistance in swine production, particularly Salmonella enterica |
| Gehrt, Stanley D. | Natural Resources | Emerging infectious diseases in wildlife, particularly the interaction between landscape characteristics, host population dynamics, and parasite prevalence |
| Gopalan, Venkat | Biochemistry | Escherichia coli the Rnase P holoenzyme |
| Gordon, Jack | Veterinary Preventive Medicine | Epidemiology, prevention and control of diseases that have potential public health implications, meat and food hygiene, infectious diseases |
| Graham, Terrence Lee | Plant Pathology | Biochemistry and molecular genetics of signal perception and signal transduction in induced plant disease resistance |
| Green, Patrick L. | Veterinary Biosciences | Human T-cell leukemia virus molecular pathogenesis, T-cell activation |
| Gross, Elizabeth L. | Biochemistry | Structure and function of metalloproteins involved in photosynthetic electron transport, namely plastocyanin and cytochrome f |
| Henkin, Tina | Microbiology | Bacillus subtilis transcription regulation, RNA structure and function, tRNA |
| Hoblet, Kent H. | Veterinary Preventive Medicine | Bovine mastitis, diseases of the bovine foot and health management systems of dairy herds |
| Hogan, Joseph Scott | Animal Science | Bovine mastitis: hygiene procedures to reduce bovine intramammary infection; relationships among normal and transit teat skin bacterial flora |
| Hogenhout, Saskia | Entomology | Molecular plant pathology; maize viruses and mollicutes, insect vectors; endosymbiotic associations in leafhoppers of the genus Dalbulus |
| Hoitink, Harry A. J. (emeritus) | Plant Pathology | Biological control of plant diseases; fates of biocontrol agents in composts; systemic induced resistanc |
| Hughes, John H. | MVIMG | Viral pathogenesis, rapid viral diagnosis, molecular biology of picornaviruses and rotaviruses |
| Ibba, Michael | Microbiology | Protein synthesis in bacteria and archaea |
| Ives, David H. (emeritus) | Biochemistry | Structure/functionrelationships at the active sites of the deoxynucleoside kinases |
| Jackwood, Daral J. | Veterinary Preventive Medicine | Virology, poultry health, birnavirus molecular characterization, infectious bursal disease viruses |
| Johnson, Philip R. | Veterinary Biosciences | Novel viral vectors as vaccine/gene transfer vehicles, primate lentivirus, pathogenesis in animal models |
| Kamoun, Sophien | Plant Pathology | Molecular plant-microbe interactions particularly those involving oomycete plant pathogenssuch as Phytophthora |
| Kaumaya, Pravin T. P. | Microbiology | Peptide and protein design; protein antigenic and immunogenic determinants; protein folding and synthetic vaccines |
| Kociba,Gary J. (emeritus) | Veterinary Biosciences | Hematologic diseases; retroviral diseases |
| Koletar, Susan L. | Internal Medicine | Histoplasmas, Pasteurella multocida , Mycobacterium avium, candidiasis |
| Krakowska, Steven | Veterinary Biosciences | Pathogenesis of infectious diseases; canine and porcine immunology |
| Krzycki, Joseph A. | Microbiology | Corrinoid dependent methyltransferases of methane formation by methanogenic archaebacteria |
| Lafuse, William P. | MVIMG | Macrophage activation, Mycobacterial resistance, regulation of macrophage gene expression by IFN- |
| Lairmore, Michael D. | Veterinary Biosciences | Molecular and cellular mechanisms of human retrovirus replication and transmission |
| LeJeune, Jeffrey | Veterinary Preventive Medicine | Preharvest control of human foodborne pathogens and antimicrobial resistant bacteria in the animal host and the environment; effects of diet composition on the magnitude and prevalence of E. coli O157 |
| Lipps, Patrick Edward | Plant Pathology | Pathogen biology, epidemiology, population dynamics, and host-resistance to head scab, powdery mildew and Septoria glume blotch of wheat |
| Madden, Laurence Vincent | Plant Pathology | Epidemiology of plant diseases |
| Maher, William E. | Internal Medicine | Triple and quadruple treatment of HIV-1; Legionella, Escherichia, and Staphylococcus typing, etc. |
| Mangino, Julie E. | Internal Medicine | Hospital-based epidemiology of candidemia; triple and quadruple treatment of HIV-1; treatment of invasive candidiasis in adults |
| Mathes, Lawrence E. | Veterinary Biosciences | Animal Models for AIDS (feline immunodeficiency virus); Anti-retrovirus Chemotherapy; feline leukemia virus |
| McSpadden Gardener, Brian B. | Plant Pathology | Molecular characterization of the diversity and population dynamics of fluorescent Pseudomonas spp. that suppress fungal root pathogens; analyses of amplified ribosomal DNA to evaluate changes in microbial populations associated with changes in root physiology and disease state |
| Miller, Sally Ann | Plant Pathology | Fortified composts as vegetable biocontrol agents; serological and molecular detection and enumerate microorganisms in crops and soil |
| Morishita, Teresa Y. | Veterinary Preventive Medicine | Bacterial colonization, food safety, Campylobacter and Salmonella epidemiology, survival of pathogens in the environment/agricultural systems and antimicrobial resistance |
| Morrison, Mark | Animal Science | Molecular biology of cellulose degradation and bacterial adhesion to surfaces |
| Munson, Robert S. | Pediatrics | Bacterial Pathogenesis and Vaccine Development |
| Nault, Lowell R. (emeritus) | Entomology | Transmission of plant pathogens by arthropods, especially maize viruses and mollicutes by leafhopper and planthopper vectors |
| Neer, Charles A. | Veterinary Preventive Medicine | Benefits of human animal relationships, zoonoses, animal control and welfare |
| Niewiesk, Stefan | Veterinary Biosciences | Immune modulation by measles virus and vaccination in the presence of maternal antibodies |
| Ockerman, Herbert W. | Animal Science | Meat microbiology, etc. |
| Oglesbee, Michael J. | Veterinary Biosciences | Viral-heat shock protein interaction (canine distemper virus, measles virus, feline immunodeficiency virus) |
| Para, Michael F. | Internal Medicine | Determination of efficacy of bivalent Aidsvax B/B vaccine; chemotherapeutic treatment of HIV; herpes virus |
| Parris, Deborah S. | MVIMG | Regulation of Herpes Simplex Virus replication |
| Pfeiffer, Douglas R. | Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry | Mitochondria and ion transporting antibiotics, called ionophores |
| Pollack, J. Dennis (emeritus) | MVIMG | Mycoplasmas (Mollicutes), intermediary metabolism, physiology of microorganisms, correlation of gene assignment and metabolic function |
| Pratt, Richard C. | Horticulture and Crop Science | Use of molecular markers, yeast two-hybrid system for host-pathogen interaction studies; genetic determinants of host resistance to maize viral pathogens |
| Prior, Richard B. | Internal Medicine | Gonococcal and nongonococcal urethritis |
| Rampersaud, Arfaan A. | Microbiology | Microbial biochemistry |
| Redinbaugh, Margaret G. "Peg" | Plant Pathology | Maize molecular response to virus infection; identification of maize genes encoding virus resistance; characterization of virus replication and distribution of viruses in resistant and susceptible maize germplasm |
| Reeve, John N. | Microbiology | Molecular biology of Archaea, methane biosynthesis and extreme thermophily |
| Rhodes, Landon Harrison | Plant Pathology | Ecology, physiology, diagnosis, and control of alfalfa fungal diseases; use of mycorrhizal (beneficial) fungi to improve nutrition and yield |
| Richter, Edward | Food Science and Technology and Microbiology | Rapid food microbiological diagnostic procedures, foodborne pathogens, intestinal pathology, bacterial toxins, food microbiological sampling plans |
| Riedel, Richard M. (emeritus) | Plant Pathology | Nematode diseases and fungal diseases of vegetables |
| Rikihisa, Yasuko | Veterinary Biosciences | Rickettsia/rickettsial diseases |
| Rowe, Randall C. | Plant Pathology | Potato early dying disease; potato late blight |
| Saif, Linda J. | Veterinary Preventive Medicine | Enteric viruses of swine and cattle |
| Saif, Yehia M. | Veterinary Preventive Medicine | Infectious diseases and the immune response of poultry; enteric viruses and infectious bursal disease virus in chickens and turkeys |
| Satoskar, Abhay | Microbiology | Immune mechanisms that determine outcome of "New world" cutaneous and visceral leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania mexicana and Leishmania donovani, respectively |
| Saville, William J. A. | Veterinary Preventive Medicine | Epidemiology of Equine Protozoal Myeloencephalitis |
| Sayre, Dick | Horticulture and Crop Science | Genetic manipulation of the photosynthetic apparatus of chloroplasts; biochemistry of cyanogenesis and the production of transgenic cassava; genetic manipulation of algae to enhance their heavy metal binding capacity |
| Sayre, Richard | Plant Biology | Photosystem II water oxidizing complex; heavy metal binding sites and metallothionein proteins in transgenic algae |
| Scholl, Randall L. | Plant Biology | Gene transfer technologies for plants, principally Agrobacterium transformation, are being utilized in gene expression analysis research |
| Sedmak, Daniel D. | Pathology | Cytomegalovirus clinical microbiology |
| Shaw, James E. | MVIMG | Human herpesviruses; Epstein-Barr virus; human herpesvirus type 8; herpesvirus antiviral compounds; growth of B and T lymphoma cells |
| Sheridan, John F. | MVIMG | Viral pathogenesis, anti-viral immunity and wound healing |
| Shulaw, William P. | Veterinary Preventive Medicine | Serodiagnosis of paratuberculosis in cattle, paratuberculosis in sheep, and ovine progressive pneumonia |
| Slemons, Richard D. | Veterinary Preventive Medicine | Defining and controlling infectious diseases in avian species; particularly type A influenza |
| Smith, Kenneth L. | Animal Science | Diagnosis, therapy, and control of bovine mastitis in dairy herds |
| Snapka, Robert M. | MVIMG | Simian Virus 40 as a model mammalian replicon; discovery and mechanisms of anticancer drugs, SV40 host range, SV40 DNA replication |
| Sreevatsan, Srinand | Veterinary Preventive Medicine | Molecular diagnostics and epidemiology of Mycobacterium paratuberculosis; diagnostics and pathogenesis of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies |
| Stich, Roger W. | Veterinary Preventive Medicine | Molecular and cellular host-parasite interaction (including immunity): Rickettsiales, Arthropoda, Platyhelminthes, Aschelminthes and Apicomplexa |
| Streeter, John | Horticulture and Crop Science | Improving survival of inoculant rhizobia on soybean seeds, mechanisms of feedback inhibition of nitrogenase in bacteroids, and the role of a novel nodule-specific polysaccharide synthesized by bacteroids |
| Swenson, Richard P. | Biochemistry | Structure/function, redox properties, and electron transfer mechanisms of flavoproteins |
| Tabita, F. Robert | Microbiology | Biochemistry, molecular biology, environmental and marine biology |
| Theil, Kenneth W. | Veterinary Preventive Medicine | Molecular epizootiology of bovine, porcine, and avian enteric viral infections |
| Tsai, Ming-Daw | Biochemistry | Protein Structure-Function, NMR, Enzyme Mechanism |
| Tuovinen, Olli H. | Microbiology | Environmental and industrial microbiology |
| Waldman, W. James | Pathology | Cytomegalovirus immunology |
| Wang, Guo-Liang | Plant Pathology | Molecular plant-fungal interactions |
| Wang, Hua | Food Science and Technology and Microbiology | Rapid detection methods and biofilm forming mechanisms, application, and prevention |
| Ward, Lucy Ann | Veterinary Preventive Medicine | Mucosal immunity (cellular and humoral particularly of swines); intestinal T cell immunity; immunopathogenesis of enteric pathogens |
| Wellman, Maxey | Veterinary Biosciences | Feline leukemia virus-induced erythroid aplasia; characterization of canine large granular lymphocytes |
| Williams, Marshall V. | Microbiology | Herpesviruses and mutagenesis |
| Williams, Marshall V. Jr. | MVIMG | Deoxyuridine metabolism in eukaryotic systems (human, herpesvirus and human immunodeficiency virus infected cells) as it relates to gene expression, DNA replication and DNA repair processes with the goal of identifying targets for chemotherapy |
| Wittum, Thomas E. | Veterinary Preventive Medicine | Epidemiology of bovine respiratory disease, bovine viral diarrhea virus control, and preharvest food safety |
| Yousef, Ahmed E. | Food Science and Technology | Control of foodborne pathogens; use of bacteriocins and other potential antimicrobial food additives |
| Zwilling, Bruce S. | Microbiology | Mycobacterial resistance, macrophage activation, regulation of macrophage gene expression by corticosteroids and neuroimmunology |
