Regular Faculty:

M. Butler, PhD – evolutionary ecology of reptiles, amphibians, odonates, and
emerging viruses through studies of biodiversity, phylogenetics, functional
morphology, and microbiome
S. P. Donachie, PhD – marine microbiology, coral microbiology, microbial
diversity, and taxonomy
J. T. Douglas, PhD – medical microbiology and infectious diseases
Y. Heacock-Kang, PhD – molecular genetics of pathogenic and opportunistic
bacteria
T. T. Hoang, PhD – vaccine and diagnostic development for bacterial infectious
diseases; molecular pathogenesis of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Burkholderia
species, Mycobacterium leprae
M. Norris, PhD – global health, vaccine development, molecular diagnostics,
bacterial pathogenesis
P. Patek, PhD (Emeritus) – cellular immunology
S. Prisic, PhD – molecular pathogenesis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis,
alternative ribosomal proteins and zinc signaling
M. Yoshizawa, PhD – evolutionary developmental biology, neurobiology, and
behavioral adaptation; microbiome & behavior

Cooperating Graduate Faculty:

R. Alegado, PhD – microbial ecology and evolution; microbiome of coastal habitats
M. Arif, PhD – host-bacterial interactions, bacterial genomics, phylogenomics and
evolution, molecular diagnostics, microbiome
D. Borthakur, PhD – plant-microbe interactions
S. P. Chang, PhD – immunology and vaccine development; effect of molecular
adjuvants on B cell development and differentiation
Z. Du, PhD – synthetic biology for valuable bioproducts; symbiosis of microbes; lipid
metabolism in photosynthetic organisms; tropical crop engineering and breeding;
bioreactor design and applications
J. Graf, PhD – interactions between microorganisms and animals, using genetics,
microscopy and next-generation sequencing, in medicinal leeches, humans, other
animals and aquatic biofilms
M. Kirs, PhD – microbiological water quality standards and public health; microbial
source tracking; impact of anthropogenic contaminants on the environment;
phycotoxins; taxonomy and systematics
Q. X. Li, PhD – chemical proteomics, microbial transformation, and enzymology
V. R. Nerurkar, PhD – pathogenesis of infectious diseases; delineating cellular and
molecular mechanisms underlying microbe-host interaction
Z. Wang, PhD – environmental biotechnology, nutrient removal, resource
recovery

Affiliate Graduate Faculty:

S. N. Bennett, PhD – molecular evolution of viruses, especially arboviruses and other zoonotic pathogens to humans and other animals, and the evolution ecology of emerging infectious diseases
R. Fujioka, PhD (Emeritus) – environmental microbiology
F.D. Miller, PhD (Emeritus) – epidemiology of infectious diseases
B. Smagghe, PhD – antibody-based cancer therapy, cancer immunotherapy, protein
biochemistry, protein engineering
H. Turner, PhD – immunological signaling pathways, immunopharmacology, data science and machine learning for drug discovery
A. C. Whelen, PhD – laboratory diagnosis of infectious disease; clinical and public health laboratory management