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Faculty Directory
Listed below by default are all faculty members affiliated with the Department of Biology. Use the search options below to display faculty members by classification, research area, graduate program affiliation, or interest in recruiting new graduate students. To find staff, researchers, or students, visit the Biology Directory. For all phone numbers, the local area code is 812.
| Tenure-Track Faculty | Contact | Description |
|---|---|---|
Clyde Culbertson Professor of Biology Microbiology | ybrun [at] indiana.edu 812-855-8860/5-7239(lab) JH 447G / JH 447F (lab) | Mechanism, regulation, and evolution of bacterial shape, differentiation, and biofilm formation. |
Assistant Professor of Biology Microbiology | pdanthi [at] indiana.edu 812-856-2449 SI 220B | Reovirus-host interactions. |
Professor of Biology Microbiology | plfoster [at] indiana.edu 812-855-4084/5-4054(lab) JH 447E / JH 447A(lab) | Mutagenesis, DNA repair, replication, and recombination. |
Professor of Biology Microbiology | cfuqua [at] indiana.edu 812-856-6005/6-5186(lab) JH 425E /JH 425 (lab) | Multicellular interactions of bacteria. |
Associate Professor of Biology, Associate Chair of Teaching Microbiology | rwhardy [at] indiana.edu 812-856-0652/6-0649(lab) SI 220E / SI 015 (lab) | Genome functions of RNA viruses and the roles of trans-acting factors. |
Associate Professor of Biology Microbiology | dbkearns [at] indiana.edu 812-856-2523/6-2559(lab) JH 469/JH 432 (lab) | Bacterial motility and multicellular behavior. |
Professor of Biology Microbiology | dkehoe [at] indiana.edu 812-856-4715 JH A413A | Environmental regulation of gene expression in bacteria. |
Assistant Professor of Biology Microbiology | mmarketo [at] indiana.edu 812-856-3198/5-6055(lab) SI 102B / SI 011 (lab) | Molecular mechanisms of pathogenic microbe-host interactions. |
Assistant Professor of Biology Microbiology | jmckinla [at] indiana.edu 812-855-0359/5-9332(lab) JH A309 / A308 (lab) | Microbial metabolism and its role in cell physiology, the environment, and biotechnology. |
Assistant Professor of Biology Microbiology | sumukhop [at] indiana.edu 812-856-3686/6-3633(lab) SI 220C / SI 019 (lab) | Structure and assembly of enveloped, RNA viruses. |
Assistant Professor of Biology Microbiology | irnewton [at] indiana.edu 812-855-3883 JH 221C | Functional genomics of environmental microbes and symbiosis. |
Associate Professor of Biology Microbiology | drowemag [at] indiana.edu 812-855-8514/6-0723(lab) JH 451(lab) | Integrons and Super-Integrons; biofilm formation; c-di-GMP signalling pathways; natural competence; ecology and pathogenesis in the Vibrionaceae. |
Associate Professor of Biology | surzycks [at] indiana.edu 812-855-4880 JH 328 | Characterization of C. reinhardti VNTR sequences; study of C. reinhardti transposons. |
Professor of Biology; Microbiology Section Associate Chair Microbiology | mwinkler [at] bio.indiana.edu 856-1318/6-1184/6-1781 JH A414 / JH A410 (lab) | Physiology, molecular genetics, and pathogenesis of the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus). |
| Adjunct & Affiliate Faculty | Contact | Description |
|---|---|---|
Adjunct: Associate Professor of Microbiology & Immunology Microbiology | nelsonde [at] indiana.edu 812-856-2813/5-3145(lab) MS 420 | Chlamydial Biology, Microbial Pathogenesis and Pathogen Discovery. |
| Emeritus Faculty | Contact | Description |
|---|---|---|
Professor Emeritus of Biology | tfdonahu [at] indiana.edu unlisted JH 324A | Genetic, molecular and biochemical analysis of translation intitiation in yeast. |