UW-Madison | Dept of Bacteriology

Research Faculty

Stephen Barclay
Developmental microbiology of Dictyostelium, Pneumocystis, and Cryptosporidium

Cameron Currie
Evolutionary ecology of the attine ant-microbe quadripartite symbiosis

Timothy Donohue
Bacterial renewable energy generation

Diana Downs
Metabolic regulation and pathway integration

Jorge Escalante-Semerena
Genetics and biochemistry of anaerobic metabolism

Marcin Filutowicz
"Reproductive cycle" and biology of plasmids, anti-microbial agents, bio-therapeutics

Katrina Forest
Structural biology of pathogenesis

Heidi Goodrich-Blair
Molecular mechanisms of bacteria-nematode-insect symbiosis

Richard Gourse
Prokaryotic transcription; regulation of ribosome synthesis

Jo Handelsman
Bacterial diversity; metagenomics; community robustness; antibiotics and chemical signals

Eric Johnson
Clostridium botulinum and its toxins; food and industrial microbiology

Charles Kaspar
Acidophiles; microbial ecology; host–pathogen interactions; antibiotic resistance

Nancy Keller
Fungal molecular biology, mycotoxins, and fungal genomics

Robert Landick
Transcriptional regulation; RNA polymerase structure and function

John Mansfield
Immunology and molecular biology of infectious disease

Katherine McMahon
Microbial ecology and environmental engineering

Gary Roberts
Genetics and biochemistry of nitrogen fixation and carbon monoxide oxidation

Michael Thomas
Biosynthesis of secondary metabolites; metabolic engineering

Karen Wassarman
Small RNAs in bacteria

Amy Wong
Food safety; biofilms

Jae-Hyuk Yu
Fungi and Mycotoxins: molecular genetics of asexual sporulation and mycotoxin biosynthesis in filamentous fungi

Glenn Chambliss
Global regulatory controls in gram-positive bacteria and microbial degradation of energetic compounds

Jerald Ensign
Developmental microbiology of actinomycetes; microbial insecticides; bacteria-nematode symbiosis

William McClain
tRNA structure and function

Robin Kurtz
REU program director, teaching laboratory director, B.S. degree program advisor, and undergraduate teaching

John Lindquist
Teaching laboratory director, undergraduate teaching, and culture collection curator

Timothy Paustian
Teaching laboratory director, B.S. degree program advisor, and undergraduate teaching

Jon Roll
IRES Program Director, undergraduate teaching and teaching laboratory director

Kenneth Hammel
Lignocellulose biodegradation

Thomas Jeffries
Bioconversion of renewable resources; metabolic engineering of pentose fermenting yeasts

Paul Weimer
Rumen microbiology; anaerobic metabolism; biopolymer degradation