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Research-active Microbiology Faculty

Luis A. Actis
Professor and Chair
(Ph.D., Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina 1982) 		Molecular mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis
Mitchell F. Balish
Associate Professor
and Director of Graduate Studies
(Ph.D., Emory University, 1998) 		Cellular, subcellular, and molecular studies of morphology, organization, and division in Mycoplasma species
Annette Bollmann
Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., Philipps University, 1996) 		Ecophysiology of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria; Culturing the unculturables
Eileen K. Bridge
Associate Professor
(Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1990) 		Adenovirus host cell interactions
Joseph M. Carlin
Professor, Assistant Chair,
and Chief Departmental Advisor
(Ph.D., Michigan State University 1985) 		Immunology of intracellular Chlamydia infections; molecular mechanisms of interferon-mediated immunity
Xiao-Wen Cheng
Associate Professor
(Ph.D., Clemson University 1998) 		Host-range factors of baculovirus and gene transcription strategies of ascovirus
D.J. Ferguson
Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., The Ohio State University 2000) 		Physiology of methyltrophic methanogenic archaea
Natosha L. Finley
Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., University of Cincinnati, 2005) 		NMR and biophysical characterization of bacterial exotoxins; Molecular basis of heritable muscle defects
Iddo Friedberg
Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., The Hebrew University 2002) 		Bioinformatics; microbial genomics & metagenomics; protein function prediction; protein function promiscuity and moonlighting; evolution of pathways
Gary R. Janssen
Professor
(Ph.D., University of Minnesota 1983) 		Translation of leaderless mRNA; molecular analysis of antibiotic resistance genes; phosphate regulation of secondary metabolism in Streptomyeces
Marcia R. Lee
Associate Professor
(D.V.M., University of Minnesota 1980) 		Use of ice-nucleating active bacteria and fungi for biological control
Rachael Morgan-Kiss
Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., University of Western Ontario, 2000) 		Polar Microbiology, Physiology, and Ecology

Instructional and Administrative Microbiology Faculty

Kelly Z. Abshire
Lecturer
(Ph.D., University of Michigan 1991) 		Identification of bacterial proteins important in intracellular survival
Rebecca Balish
Lecturer
(Ph.D., Emory University, 1999) 		37 PSN
529-5406
balishrs@muohio.edu
Julia Brodt-Eppley
Visiting Assistant Professor,
Greentree Curriculum Developer
(Ph.D., University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, 1993) 		116 Levey Hall
727-3498
eppleyjk@muohio.edu
Marjorie (Kelly) Cowan
Professor
(Ph.D., University of Louisville, 1987) 		Description and disruption of microbial adhesion
Deborah Phillips
Lecturer
(Ed.D., University of Cincinnati, 2004) 		Science anxiety in female students
John R. Stevenson
Associate Professor
(Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University 1972) 		Mechanisms of macrophage function; protein malnutrition-induced immunodeficiency

Affiliate and Adjunct Microbiology Faculty

John Karro
Affiliate Assistant Professor,
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
   and Software Engineering
(Ph.D., University of Virginia 2000) 		Computational biology, comparative genomics, molecular evolution, and population genetics
Thomas L. Dawson, Jr.
Adjunct Assistant Professor,
Principal Scientist, Miami Valley Labs,
   The Procter & Gamble Company
(Ph.D., University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, 1994) 		Malassezia globosa genomics, identification of anti-dandruff targets
Richard E. Edelman
Adjunct Assistant Professor,
Director of the Center for
   Advanced Microscopy & Imaging,
and Instructor of Botany
(Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1993) 		Electron microscopy, cellular ultrastructure, and mycology
Andor J. Kiss
Adjunct Assistant Professor,
Supervisor of the
   Center for Bioinformatics
   and Functional Genomics
(Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005) 		Globular protein stability & cold adaptation

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