Graduate Studies
Microbiology Graduate Program
Affiliated Training Faculty
| Affiliated Faculty | Contact | Description |
|---|---|---|
 Farrah Bashey-Visser Assistant Scientist Evolution, Ecology & Behavior | fbasheyv [at] indiana.edu 812-855-1962 Sycamore Hall 039 | Evolutionary ecology of life-history and social strategies, evolution of virulence. |
 Carl Bauer Adjunct: Professor and Chair of Biochemistry | bauer [at] indiana.edu 812-855-6595/5-8443(lab) SI 305A / SI 313 / 317 (lab) | Oxygen and light regulation or gene expression; Biosynthesis of heme and chlorophyll; Prokaryotic development. |
 James Bever Professor of Biology Evolution, Ecology & Behavior | jbever [at] indiana.edu 812-855-0771/5-5969(lab) JH 149D / JH 149 (lab) | Ecology and evolution of plants and fungi. |
 Karen Bush Adjunct Professor of Biology | karbush [at] indiana.edu 855-1542 JH A311 | Antibiotic mechanisms of action and resistance; Antibacterial drug discovery and drug development. |
 Lingling Chen Adjunct: Associate Professor of Biochemistry | linchen [at] indiana.edu 812-855-0491 SI 400A / SI 415 (lab) | Biochemistry and structure of molecular chaperon GroEL/GroES in protein folding, cell-cell communication via quorum sensing in bacteria, transcriptional regulators of IclR family |
 Keith Clay Professor of Biology Evolution, Ecology & Behavior | clay [at] indiana.edu 812-855-8158/5-1674(lab) JH 159B / JH 159 (lab) | Microbial interactions: ecology, symbiosis, disease. |
 Jim Drummond Adjunct: Associate Professor of Biochemistry | jadrummo [at] indiana.edu 812-856-4184/6-4184(lab) SI 305C / SI 301 (lab) | Limited alphabet coding sequences and proteins; a minimalist approach to structure and function. |
 David Giedroc Adjunct: Professor of Chemistry | giedroc [at] indiana.edu 812-856-3178/6-6398(lab) SI 320A / SI 310 (lab) | Zinc- and copper-specific metal sensor proteins from bacterial pathogens, translational frameshifting, and RNA structure and function in mammalian coronavirus replication. |
 Ke Hu Assistant Professor of Biology Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology | kehu [at] indiana.edu 812-855-0166/5-0311(lab) MY 216A / MY 230 (lab) | Cytoskeletal biogenesis of apicomplexan parasites. |
 Roger Innes Professor and Chair of Biology Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology | rinnes [at] indiana.edu 812-855-2219/5-2852(lab) MY 316B / MY 302 (lab) | Molecular genetics of plant/pathogen interactions. |
 Cheng Kao Adjunct: Professor of Biochemistry | ckao [at] indiana.edu 812-855-7583 SI 205A | Biochemistry of RNA virus infection and innate immunity. |
 Soni Lacefield Assistant Professor of Biology Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology | sonil [at] indiana.edu 812-856-2429 JH A315B | Chromosome segregation and meiotic cell cycle control. |
 Richard Phillips Assistant Professor of Biology Evolution, Ecology & Behavior | rpp6 [at] indiana.edu 812-856-0593/6-1563(lab) JH 247A/JH 245 | Ecosystem ecology and biogeochemistry: Consequences of human-accelerated environmental change on plant-soil-microbial Interactions. |
 Flynn Picardal Adjunct: Associate Professor, SPEA | picardal [at] indiana.edu 812-855-0732 SPEA 231 | Bioremediation, environmental microbiology, and biogeochemistry with a focus on the microbial reduction of iron oxides and nitrate, microbial iron oxidation, biotransformation of metals and chlorinated hydrocarbons, and combined microbial:geochemical interactions. |
 Heather Reynolds Associate Professor of Biology Evolution, Ecology & Behavior | hlreynol [at] indiana.edu 812-855-0792/5-0841(lab) JH 155A | Plant community ecology; plant-soil-microbial interactions. |
 Gregory Velicer Adjunct: Associate Professor Evolution, Ecology & Behavior | gvelicer [at] indiana.edu 812-856-2586/5-9332(lab) JH 469 / JH A308 (lab) | Ecology and evolution of bacterial social behavior. |
 Adam Zlotnick Adjunct: Professor of Biochemistry | azlotnic [at] indiana.edu 812-856-1925/6-1874 SI 220D/SI 217A | Biophysics of virus assembly related to virus biology, development of antiviral strategies, and construction of virus nanostructures. |
 Miriam Zolan Professor of Biology Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology | mzolan [at] indiana.edu 812-855-6694/5-3692(lab) JH 217 / 219/221 (lab) | Meiosis and DNA Repair |