Researchers interested in Genomics
Daniel Amador-Noguez
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email: amadornoguez@wisc.edu
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Bacteriology
Metabolic regulation in biofuels
Karthik Anantharaman
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email: karthik@bact.wisc.edu
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Bacteriology
Microbial ecology, community interactions, biogeochemistry and metagenomics
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
Cameron Currie
Position title: Professor
Email: currie@bact.wisc.edu
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Bacteriology
Microbial ecology and evolution, symbiosis, evolutionary genomics, and host-pathogen interactions
Audrey Gasch
Position title: Professor
Email: agasch@wisc.edu
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Genetics
Genomic expression in fungi
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
David Hershey
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email: dhershey@wisc.edu
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Bacteriology
Mechanisms of surface colonization in bacteria
Chris Hittinger
Position title: Associate Professor
Email: cthittinger@wisc.edu
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Genetics
Diversity and evolution of yeast carbon metabolism
Yun Liang
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email: liang95@wisc.edu
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Medical Microbiology and Immunology
Molecular basis for sex differences in immune responses; inflammation and autoimmunity
Kinjal Majumder
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email: kmajumder@wisc.edu
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Molecular Virology and Oncology
How viruses navigate the nuclear environment to establish viral replication centers.
Mark Mandel
Position title: Associate Professor
Email: mmandel@wisc.edu
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Medical Microbiology and Immunology
Bacterial colonization of host epithelial tissue, Vibrio fischeri-squid symbiosis
Katherine McMahon
Position title: Professor
Email: trina.mcmahon@wisc.edu
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Civil and Environmental Engineering
Environmental microbiology and molecular microbial ecology
Caitlin Pepperell
Position title: Associate Professor
Email: cspepper@medicine.wisc.edu
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Medicine/Medical Microbiology and Immunology
Ecology and evolution of infectious diseases
Jason Peters
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email: jason.peters@wisc.edu
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Pharmacy
CRISPR-based exploration of biological networks in antibiotic-resistant and biofuel-relevant bacteria
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: Assistant Professor
Email: sraman4@wisc.edu
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Biochemistry
Design of synthetic bacteriophages for therapy and microbiome editing, engineering microbial transcription, protein design
Sushmita Roy
Position title: Associate Professor
Email: sroy8@wisc.edu
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Biostatistics and Medical Informatics
Inference and analysis of structure, function and evolution of regulatory networks
David Schwartz
Position title: Professor
Email: dcschwartz@wisc.edu
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Genetics
Development of new genomic approaches to important biological problems
Nathaniel Sharp
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email: nathaniel.sharp@wisc.edu
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Genetics
Evolutionary genetics of spontaneous mutation
Garret Suen
Position title: Associate Professor
Email: gsuen@wisc.edu
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Bacteriology
Symbiotic microbes and microbial communities associated with herbivores
Adel Talaat
Position title: Professor
Email: atalaat@wisc.edu
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Pathobiological Sciences
Molecular pathogenesis of tuberculosis and paratuberculosis
Michael Thomas
Position title: Professor
Email: michael.thomas@wisc.edu
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Bacteriology
Biosynthesis of bacterial secondary metabolites
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.
JP van Pijkeren
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email: vanpijkeren@wisc.edu
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Food Science
Microbiota-host interactions and development of biotherapeutics
Ophelia Venturelli
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email: venturelli@wisc.edu
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Biochemistry
Synthetic biology of microbial consortia, design and analysis of gene regulatory networks
Jade Wang
Position title: Professor
Email: jade.wang@wisc.edu
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Bacteriology
Bacterial stress response, replication transcription conflict, genome stability
Thea Whitman
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email: twhitman@wisc.edu
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Soil Science
Microbial ecology, terrestrial biogeochemistry, bioinformatics, and stable isotopes
Mostafa Zamanian
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email: mzamanian@wisc.edu
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Pathobiological Sciences
The study and treatment of parasite (helminth) infections