Environmental Microbiology Research Area

Researchers interested in Environmental Microbiology

Daniel Amador-Noguez

Position title: Associate Professor

Email: amadornoguez@wisc.edu

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Bacteriology
Metabolic regulation in biofuels

Karthik Anantharaman

Position title: Associate Professor

Email: karthik@bact.wisc.edu

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Bacteriology
Microbial and viral ecology, bioinformatics and metagenomics, sulfur metabolism, biogeochemistry

Matt Anderson

Position title: Associate Professor

Email: mzanderson@wisc.edu

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Genetics
Genetic diversity in Candida and eukaryotic microbial diversity in the microbiome

Jean-Michel Ané

Position title: Professor

Email: jane@wisc.edu

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Bacteriology
Symbiotic associations between plants and microbes

Jeri Barak

Position title: Professor

Email: jeri.barak@wisc.edu

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Plant Pathology
Phyllosphere biology of bacteria, plant - bacterial interactions

Kerri Coon

Position title: Assistant Professor

Email: kerri.coon@wisc.edu

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Bacteriology
Insect-microbe interactions, impacts of gut microbes on the biology of disease vectors

Zac Freedman

Position title: Assistant Professor

Email: zfreedman@wisc.edu

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Soil Science
Environmental microbial ecology, biogeochemistry and sustainability

Audrey Gasch

Position title: Professor

Email: agasch@wisc.edu

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Genetics
Fungal stress responses and genotype-phenotype relationships

Tony Goldberg

Position title: Professor

Email: tony.goldberg@wisc.edu

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Pathobiological Sciences
Ecology and evolution of infectious diseases

Jo Handelsman

Position title: Professor

Email: jo.handelsman@wisc.edu

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Plant Pathology
Genetic and biochemical processes within plant and human microbiomes

Chris Hittinger

Position title: Professor

Email: cthittinger@wisc.edu

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Genetics
Evolutionary genomics and synthetic biology of yeast carbon metabolism

Betül Kaçar

Position title: Associate Professor

Email: bkacar@wisc.edu

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Bacteriology
Origins and early evolution of life, ancient proteins, functional evolution over geologic time

Charles Kaspar

Position title: Professor

Email: cwkaspar@wisc.edu

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Bacteriology
Molecular and physiological basis of stress tolerance

Nancy Keller

Position title: Professor

Email: npkeller@wisc.edu

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Medical Microbiology and Immunology
Host and pathogen signals governing pathogenesis by fungi

Jason Kwan

Position title: Associate Professor

Email: jason.kwan@wisc.edu

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Pharmacy
How and why uncultured bacteria produce bioactive small molecules

Erica Majumder

Position title: Assistant Professor

Email: emajumder@wisc.edu

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Bacteriology
Anaerobic metabolism, microbe-metal and microbe-plastics interactions, biodegradation

Katherine McMahon

Position title: Professor

Email: trina.mcmahon@wisc.edu

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Bacteriology/Civil and Environmental Engineering
Environmental microbiology and molecular microbial ecology

Brian Pfleger

Position title: Professor

Email: pfleger@engr.wisc.edu

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Chemical Engineering
Synthetic biology, metabolic and protein engineering, natural products

Anne Pringle

Position title: Professor

Email: apringle2@wisc.edu

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Botany and Bacteriology
Evolution and ecology of natural populations of fungi

Vatsan Raman

Position title: Associate Professor

Email: sraman4@wisc.edu

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Biochemistry
Understanding bacteriophage-host interactions, designing bacteriophages to combat bacterial pathogens and for precision microbiome editing

Eric Roden

Position title: Professor

Email: eroden@geology.wisc.edu

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Geoscience
Biogeochemistry and microbial ecology of soils, ecophysiology of anaerobic microorganisms

Garret Suen

Position title: Professor

Email: gsuen@wisc.edu

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Bacteriology
Symbiotic microbes and microbial communities associated with herbivores

Victor Ujor

Position title: Assistant Professor

Email: ujor@wisc.edu

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Food Science
Metabolic engineering towards bioconversion of organic residues to fuels and chemicals.

Thea Whitman

Position title: Associate Professor

Email: twhitman@wisc.edu

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Soil Science
Microbial ecology, terrestrial biogeochemistry, bioinformatics, and stable isotopes