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 SI 102B | 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 Distinguished 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 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. |
 David Nelson 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. |
 Jeffrey Palmer Distinguished Professor and Class of 1955 Professor Evolution, Ecology & Behavior | jpalmer [at] indiana.edu 812-855-8892 JH 235C / JH 229/235 (lab) | Comparative genomics and molecular evolution: Horizontal gene transfer in plants and fungi. Evolution of plant mitochondrial genomes and RNA editing. Intracellular transfer of organellar genes to the nucleus. Evolution of mutation rates. Molecular phylogeny of plants. |
 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 812-855-0733 MSBII 418 | 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. |
 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 |