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Fast Facts (top)

• Number of graduate faculty mentors:  21
• Current number of graduate students in Microbiology labs: 60
• Percent of Ph.D. graduates who have pursued a biology-related career:  >90%
• Average number of major research grants per lab: 2
• Total research funding of Microbiology faculty: $35 million  

Research Strengths (top)

Students in our program enjoy access to key research areas within microbiology.  Strengths of our program include:

• Molecular analysis of prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbes
  • All program faculty
• Mechanisms of viral infection, morphogenesis, and replication
  • Hardy, Mukhopadhyay, and Taylor
• Microbial genomics and proteomics
  • Bauer, Brun, Fuqua, Hardy, Innes, Kearns, Kehoe, Marketon, Nelson, Taylor, Winkler, Velicer, and Zolan
• Microbial ecology and evolution
  • Bauer, Bever, Clay, Foster, Fuqua, Kearns, Innes, Palmer, Picardal, Reynolds, and Velicer
• Host-microbe interaction and infectious diseases
  • Clay, Fuqua, Hardy, Hu, Innes, Mukhopadhyay, Marketon, Nelson, Reynolds, Shaw, Taylor, and Winkler
• Microbial development and cell differentiation
  • Bauer, Brun, Fuqua, Kearns, Kehoe, Nelson, Velicer, and Zolan
• Cell cycle control
  • Brun, Drummond, Foster, Hu, Winkler, and Zolan
• DNA mutagenesis, replication and repair
  • Drummond, Foster, Fuqua, and Zolan
• Cell-cell communication, microbial communities, and biofilms
  • Bauer, Bever, Brun, Clay, Fuqua, Kearns, Kehoe, and Velicer
• Protein structure-function and enzymology
  • Bauer, Bonner, Brun, Chen, Donahue, Drummond, Fuqua, Hardy, Innes, Kehoe, Marketon, Mukhopadhyay, Winkler, and Zolan
• Mechanisms of transcription and translation, regulation of gene expression
  • Bauer, Bonner, Brun, Chen, Donahue, Foster, Fuqua, Kearns, Kehoe, Marketon, and Winkler
• Photosynthesis and light response
  • Bauer and Kehoe
• Microbial physiology
  • Bauer, Bonner, Brun, Fuqua, Kehoe, Marketon, and Winkler

Our interdisciplinary program provides a large number of potential research advisors.  New students participate in "lab rotations" to sample the interests, approaches, and styles of three different laboratories.  This allows informed decisions about what area of research to pursue and which laboratory to join.

Why Come to Indiana University's Microbiology Program? (top)

• A unique combination of research excellence and a first-class graduate training program.
• A training program that includes research rotations, a first-year core curriculum, customized advanced courses, and individualized career development advice from faculty.
• An intense focus on fundamental research questions and critical environmental and biomedical issues in powerful model organisms.
• An exceptionally collegial, cooperative, and rigorous research environment.
• A wide range of faculty interests and research opportunities for graduate students to explore.
• State-of-the-art research facilities and approaches
• Generous financial support guaranteed for 5 years.
• An outstanding living environment: Bloomington is a beautiful, easy-commute, affordable community.
• An outstanding cultural environment: music and arts offerings are world-class.
• An outstanding outdoor environment: we are located in one of the largest hardwood forest areas in the United States with a large number of state and national parks, hills, hollows, lakes, rivers, and many scenic highways.