Faculty

Sabeeha Merchant

Professor
Chloroplast, Photosynthesis, Algae, Trace metals, Genomics, Synthetic biology, Designer lipids, Chlamydomonas, Auxenochlorella, Dunaliella

Dipti Nayak

Assistant Professor
Archaea; Methanogenesis; Microbial Evolution; CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing

Krishna Niyogi

Professor and Associate Chair
Regulation of Photosynthesis and Photoprotection

Daniel Portnoy

Professor
Bacterial pathogenesis

Kathleen Ryan

Associate Professor
Antibiotic persistence and stress resistance mediated by HipBA toxin-antitoxin systems

Kim Seed

Associate Professor
interactions between bacteria and their viral predators

Patrick Shih

Associate Professor
Synthetic Biology, Plant Metabolism, Microbial Evolution

Michi Taga

Professor
Microbial Nutritional Interactions

Matthew Traxler

Associate Professor
Bacterial interspecies interactions and specialized metabolism

Mary Wildermuth

Associate Professor
Plant-Microbe Interactions