Microbiology: Faculty and Staff
A message from the Directors
Microbes are both the cause of and the solution to many of humanity’s grand challenges in human health, sustainable agriculture, protection of natural environments, cleaning up polluted environments, and engineered systems.
In the coming decades, microbiologists will be critical to understanding the microbes in these systems, controlling them, and putting them to work for us. The Microbiology Graduate Program educates students broadly in microbiology, so that you will be equipped to address any of these grand challenges. Whether you work on nutrient cycles, human disease, or microbial process engineering, you will learn the laboratory, analytical, and bioinformatic tools needed to ask and answer questions of global importance.
When you join the Microbiology Graduate Program at UD, you will join a vibrant community of microbiologists with faculty in 14 departments across campus, including Biology, Marine Science and Policy, Geology, Plant and Soil Sciences, Civil and Environmental Engineering. This breadth gives students access to an extensive range of equipment, collaborators, and expertise. Regardless of the home department, our goal is to characterize the microbes in different environments – from the human body to water to soil and sediment – and understand how they work, so that we can put them to work for us.
We hope you will join us!
Clara Chan
Professor of Earth, Ocean and Environment; Director of Microbiology Graduate Program
Nicole Donofrio
Professor of Pathology; Assoiate Director of Microbiology Graduate Program
Name/Profile | College | Research Focus | ||||
Harsh Bais | hbais@udel.edu | CANR | Plant microbe interactions and phytochemistry | |||
Mona Batish | batish@udel.edu | CHS | Molecular and cellular cancer biology | |||
Jennifer Biddle | jfbiddle@udel.edu | CEOE | Sediment microbial metagenomics and biogeochemistry | |||
Sam Biswas | biswassb@udel.edu | CHS | Human Papillomavirus family (HPV) induced oncogenesis and mechanism of DNA replication in pathogenic bacteria | |||
Mark Blenner | blenner@udel.edu | COE | Synbio, metabolic engineering, functional genomics, microbiome engineering | |||
Fidelma Boyd | fboyd@udel.edu | CAS | Genomic determinants of host-pathogen interactions in Vibrio | |||
Daniel Cha | cha@udel.edu | COE | Microbial conversion of food waste to high-value products | |||
Clara Chan | cschan@udel.edu | CEOE | Fe-oxidizing bacteria and geomicrobiology | |||
Pei Chiu | pei@udel.edu | COE | Bioremediation | |||
Nicole Donofrio | ndonof@udel.edu | CANR | Fungal-plant interactions, or fungal-bacterial interactions | |||
Aditya Dutta | adidutta@udel.edu | CANR | Gut and reproductive tract microbiome. | |||
Jeff Fuhrman | fuhrmann@udel.edu | CANR | Ecology and diversity of nitrogen-fixing microbial populations in soil-plant systems | |||
Catherine Grimes | cgrimes@udel.edu | CAS | Chemical glycobiology and innate immunity | |||
Thomas Hanson | tehanson@udel.edu | CEOE | Microbial metabolism and ecology. Engineering autotrophic bacteria for production. | |||
Yan Jin | yjin@udel.edu | CANR | Microbial mediated changes of soil properties and processes; biophysical processes in the rhizosphere | |||
Kalmia Kniel | kniel@udel.edu | CANR | Microbial food safety | |||
Alyssa Koehler | akoehler@udel.edu | CANR | Molecular and cellular plant-microbe interactions; fungal biology | |||
Aditya Kunjapur | kunjapur@udel.edu | COE | biological containment of microbes; live bacterial vaccine platforms; bacterial spore display of proteins | |||
Kelvin Lee | khl@udel.edu | COE | Development and application of high throughput proteomics | |||
Adam Marsh | amarsh@udel.edu | CEOE | Environmental genomics and evolutionary signatures in genomic information | |||
Ramona Neuneubel | neunr@udel.edu | CAS | Host-pathogen interactions in Legionella | |||
Terry Papoutsakis | epaps@udel.edu | COE | Clostridial engineering for butanol production | |||
Vijay Parashar | parashar@udel.edu | CHS | mechanistic basis of critical communication events during bacterial pathogenesis | |||
Mark Parcells | parcells@udel.edu | CANR | Viral genetics and infection | |||
Shawn Polson | polson@dbi.udel.edu | COE, CEOE | Microbial-viral interactions and bioinformatics | |||
Sharon Rozovsky | rozovsky@udel.edu | CAS | Selenoproteins and Se-NMR in structure-function studies | |||
Karl Schmitz | schmitzk@udel.edu | CAS | Clp proteases from Mycobacterium tuberculosis | |||
Angelia Seyfferth | angelias@udel.edu | CANR | Microbial influences on As accumulation in plants | |||
Kevin Solomon | kvs@udel.edu | COE | anaerobic fungi functional genomics | |||
Molly Sutherland | msuther@udel.edu | CAS | Cytochrome c biogenesis in bacteria | |||
Adam Wallace | afw@udel.edu | CEOE | Microbial control of mineralization reactions | |||
Mark Warner | mwarner@udel.edu | CEOE | Coral-phototroph symbioses and harmful algal blooms | |||
Eric Wommack | wommack@dbi.udel.edu | CANR, CEOE | Viral ecology and metagenomics | |||
Cathy Wu | wuc@udel.edu | COE | Genomics | |||
Ryan Zurakowski | ryanz@udel.edu | COE | Modeling host-pathogen interactions based in control theory |