Curtis A. Suttle, PhD
Professor
Bacteria, viruses, marine microbiology, Arctic microbiology, environmental microbiology, bacteriophage
Bob Hancock
Professor, Microbiology & Immunology
Director, Centre for Microbial Diseases & Immunity Research
Antibiotics, new antimicrobial treatments, boosting immunity, antibiotic resistance, genomics, cystic fibrosis, biotechnology, drug development
Dr. Morgan Alford
Postdoctoral Fellow
clinical microbiology, antibiotic resistance, pathogenesis, immunology, infectious disease, diagnostics, laboratory medicine, pathology, animal husbandry, high-throughput assays, pandemic, epidemic, endemic
Prof. William Mohn, PhD
Professor
microbiology, microbial ecology, microbiome, bacterial catabolism, lignin degradation, lignocellulose degradation, steroid degradation, aromatic compound degradation, forest soil ecology, genomics, metagenomics, transcriptomics, metatranscriptomics, vaccine response, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, bioproducts,
Prof. Yossef Av-Gay, PhD
Professor of Microbiology
Microbiology, Infectious Diseases, Drug discovery, Antibiotics, Tuberculosis, Lung infections, NTM, COVID-19, Inhalation therapies, CF (Cystic fibrosis),
Kabir Bhalla
Graduate Research Assistant
Fungi, microscopy, fungal pathogens, fungal disease, immunology, immune system
Dr. Carolina Tropini, PhD, PLEng
Assistant Professor
Microbiome, microbiota, inflammatory bowel disease, IBD, Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, microbiology, biophysics, bioengineering, biomedical engineering,
Dr. Steven Hallam, PhD
Professor
Microbial ecology, biological engineering, bioinformatics, entrepreneurship, genomics, single-cell genomics, metabolic pathway inference, metagenomics, environmental genomics, automation systems, synthetic biology, machine learning, information aesthetics, science communication, scholarship of education leadership, functional screening, biocatalyst discovery, bioeconomy, bioenergy, microplastics, anaerobic digestion, cyanobacteria, metabolic interaction networks, symbiosis, climate change, oxygen minimum zones, oceanography, sustainability,
Lindsay Eltis
Professor
Bacterial catabolism, pollutant degradation, steroid degradation, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, biocatalysts
Charles Haynes, PhD
Professor and Department Head
Biotechnology, genomics, translation, biophysics, bioengineering, biomolecular engineering, enzymology, computational modeling, cell delivery, macromolecular biochemistry, protein chemistry, biomaterials and biomechanics, catalysis, drug delivery, protein design
Dr. Ryan Ziels, PhD
Assistant Professor
Sustainable biological wastewater treatment, resource recovery, microbial ecology, multi-omics, anaerobic digestion, biological nutrient removal, microbial biotechnology
David Granville, PhD
Professor
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Associate Director
Dermatology, wound healing, aging, scarring, fibrosis, dermatology, skin disorders, vascular injury, aneurysm, atherosclerosis, biotechnology, drug discovery, how aging and other factors impair normal healing of tissues, mechanisms of aging, how sunlight and other factors accelerate aging of tissues, proteases, granzymes, oxidative stress
Milind Kandlikar, PhD
Professor
Climate change, air pollution, extended producer responsibility, human development, agricultural biotechnology, information technology in developing countries, sustainable development, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases
Dr. Steven Pelech, PhD
Professor
Cancer, Neurological disorders, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, ALS, Diabetes, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, Biochemistry, Signal Transduction, Cell signalling, Protein kinases, Protein phosphatase, Transcription factors, Cell receptors, Proteins, Peptides, Peptide synthesis, SPOT peptide synthesis, Antibodies, Antibody microarrays, Serological tests, Bioinformatics, Ethics, Evolution, Social intelligence, Cellular intelligence, Molecular intelligence, Biotechnology,
Vikramaditya Yadav
Associate Professor
Biocatalysis, Bioremediation, Bioprocess engineering, Drug delivery, Infectious disease pathogenesis & drug discovery, Green chemistry, Medical biotechnology, Metabolic engineering, Synthetic biology, Cannabinoids, Tissue engineering,
Soheil Mahmoud
Associate Professor
Plant molecular biology and biotechnology
Shawn Mansfield
Associate Professor
Plant metabolism, cellulose biosynthesis, lignin biosynthesis, wood formation, wood quality, cell wall biochemistry, tree biotechnology, transgenics