| Carl Bauer | Oxygen and light regulation
of gene expression; Biosynthesis of heme and
chlorophyll; Prokaryotic development. |
(lab) |
| James Bever | Ecology and evolution of plants
and fungi. |
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| Yves V. Brun | Cell cycle control, cell division, and cell differentiation in bacteria. Bacterial adhesion and biofilm formation. |
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| Karen Bush | Antibacterial drug discovery and mechanisms of antibiotic resistance | |
| Lingling Chen | Structural and biochemical studies
on protein-protein interactions in GroEL-mediated
protein folding and microbial communications. |
(lab) |
| Keith Clay | Microbial Interactions: Ecology,
Symbiosis, Disease. |
(lab) |
| Pranav Danthi | Viral and cellular determinants of virus-induced cell death and disease. | |
| Thomas F. Donahue | Genetic, molecular and biochemical
analysis of translation initiation in yeast. |
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| Jim Drummond | Limited alphabet coding sequences and proteins: a minimalist approach to structure and function. |
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| Pat Foster | Mutagenesis, DNA repair, replication,
and recombination. | |
| Clay Fuqua | Multicellular interactions of
bacteria. |
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| David Giedroc | Zinc- and copper-specific metal sensor proteins from bacterial pathogens, translational frameshifting, and RNA structure and function in mammalian coronavirus replication. (Department of Chemistry) | (lab) |
| Richard Hardy | Genome functions of RNA viruses
and the roles of trans-acting factors. |
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| Ke Hu | Cytoskeletal biogenesis of apicomplexan parasites. | |
| Roger Innes | Molecular genetics of plant/pathogen
interactions. |
(lab) |
| Cheng Kao | Biochemistry of RNA virus infection and innate immunity. | |
| Daniel Kearns | Bacterial motility and multicellular behavior. | |
| David Kehoe | Environmental regulation of gene expression in bacteria. |
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| Soni Lacefield | Chromosome segregation and spindle checkpoint function in meiosis | |
| Melanie Marketon | Molecular mechanisms of pathogenic microbe-host interactions. | |
| Tuli Mukhopadhyay | Structure and assembly of enveloped, RNA viruses. | |
| David Nelson | Chlamydial virulence factors and host response. |
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| Jeffrey D. Palmer | Comparative genomics and molecular evolution: Horizontal gene transfer in plants. Evolution of plant mitochondrial genomes and RNA editing. Intracellular transfer of organellar genes to the nucleus. Evolution of mutation rates. Molecular phylogeny. |
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| Richard Phillips | Ecosystem Ecology and Biogeochemistry: Consequences of Human-Accelerated Environmental Change on Plant-Soil-Microbial Interactions and Carbon and Nutrient Dynamics. | |
| Flynn Picardal | Environmental microbiology, microbial geochemistry, and bioremediation. |
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| Heather Reynolds | Plant community ecology; plant-soil-microbial interactions. |
(lab) |
| Greg Velicer | Ecology and evolution of bacterial social behavior. |
|
| Malcolm E. Winkler | The physiology, pathogenesis,
molecular genetics, stress responses, and genomics
of the gram-positive human respiratory pathogenic
bacterium, Streptococcus pneumoniae. |
(lab) |
| Adam Zlotnick | Biophysics of virus assembly related to virus biology, development of antiviral strategies, and construction of virus nanostructures. | |
| Miriam E. Zolan | Meiosis and DNA repair. |
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