Microbiology: Faculty

Barbara Baker

Barbara Baker

bbaker@berkeley.edu
Adjunct Professor
Plant Innate Immunity

Rachel Brem

rbrem@berkeley.edu
Associate Professor
Fungi as a model system for the study of genetic variation and evolution
Professor Steven Brenner

Steven E. Brenner

brenner@compbio.berkeley.edu
Professor, Plant & Microbial Biology
Computational Biology, Genomics, Protein Function Prediction
Thomas D. Bruns, Microbiology, UC Berkeley

Tom Bruns

pogon@berkeley.edu
Professor Emeritus
Fungal Ecology
Professor John D. Coates

John D. Coates

jdcoates@berkeley.edu
Professor of Microbiology and Academic Director, Energy Biosciences Institute
Bioremediation
adam deutschbauer

Adam Deutschbauer

amdeutschbauer@lbl.gov
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Genetics, genomics, and large-scale protein function discovery
Picture of Karine Gibbs, photograph by Adam Sings in the Timber

Karine A. Gibbs

kagibbs@berkeley.edu
Associate Professor, Plant & Microbial Biology
Identity in social bacteria
N. Louise Glass

N. Louise Glass

lglass@berkeley.edu
Professor, Plant & Microbial Biology and Graduate Group in Microbiology
Biofuels, Fungi
Britt A. Glaunsinger

Britt A. Glaunsinger

glaunsinger@berkeley.edu
Professor, Plant & Microbial Biology, Associate Chair
Virus-Host Interactions, RNA-Based Regulation

Igor Grigoriev

ivgrigoriev@lbl.gov
Adjunct Professor / Senior Scientist / Program Head
Fungal and Algal Genomics, Computational Biology
Andrew O. Jackson

Andrew O. Jackson

andyoj@berkeley.edu
Professor Emeritus
Molecular genetics and cell biology of plus and minus strand RNA plant viruses
portrait of Arash Komeili

Arash Komeili

komeili@berkeley.edu
Professor, Plant & Microbial Biology
Bacterial organelles and biomeinralization

Ksenia Krasileva

kseniak@berkeley.edu
Assistant Professor
Genomics and Innate Immune systems

Aaron Leichty

arleichty@berkeley.edu
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Peggy G. Lemaux

Peggy G. Lemaux

lemauxpg@berkeley.edu
Professor of Cooperative Extension
Crop Genetic Improvement via Engineering and Editing

Jennifer D. Lewis

jdlewis@berkeley.edu
Adjunct Associate Professor
Plant Disease and Immunity
steven lindow

Steven E. Lindow

icelab@berkeley.edu
Professor Emeritus
Ecology of Plant-Associated Microorganisms

N. Cecilia Martinez-Gomez

cecimartinez@berkeley.edu
Assistant Professor
Lanthanide-biochemistry and metabolism. Microbial Physiology, Metabolic Engineering, Plant-microbe interactions, bioremediation and biometallurgy
sabeeha

Sabeeha Merchant

sabeeha@berkeley.edu
Professor of Plant and Microbial Biology

Dipti Nayak

dnayak@berkeley.edu
Assistant Professor in Molecular and Cell Biology
Archaea; Methanogenesis; Microbial Evolution; CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing
Krishna K. Niyogi

Krishna K. Niyogi

niyogi@berkeley.edu
Professor, Plant and Microbial Biology
Regulation of Photosynthesis and Photoprotection

Daniel A Portnoy

portnoy@berkeley.edu
Distinguished Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology & Plant and Microbial Biology
Bacterial pathogenesis

Kathleen Ryan

krr@berkeley.edu
Associate Professor, Plant & Microbial Biology
Signaling Pathways, Antibiotic Persistence, Cell Envelope Integrity

Kimberley Seed

kseed@berkeley.edu
Associate Professor
Interactions between bacteria and their viral predators (bacteriophages)
Chris R. Somerville

Chris R. Somerville

crs@berkeley.edu
Professor Emeritus
University - Industry Collaborations
Shauna Somerville

Shauna Somerville

ssomerville@berkeley.edu
Professor Emerita
Plant-pathogen interactions; mechanisms of host defense; cell wall integrity sensing

Brian Staskawicz

stask@berkeley.edu
Maxine J. Elliot Professor of Plant and Microbial Biology
Plant Immunity
Michi Taga

Michi Taga

taga@berkeley.edu
Professor, Plant & Microbial Biology
Microbial Nutritional Interactions
John W. Taylor

John W. Taylor

jtaylor@berkeley.edu
Professor of the Graduate School
Fungal evolution and genomics
Matt Traxler

Matt F. Traxler

mtrax@berkeley.edu
Associate Professor
Bacterial interspecies interactions and specialized metabolism

Patricia C. Zambryski

zambrysk@berkeley.edu
Professor Emerita
Type IV secretion in bacteria and cell-to-cell transport in plants