Faculty, Department of Microbiology in the Medical School at the University of Minnesota

Microbiology Department Faculty

• Armstrong, Sandra K., Ph.D.
  Research Area: Iron acquisition and iron-regulated gene expression in pathogenic bacteria
  
• Bohjanen, Paul, M.D., Ph.D.
  Research Area: T lymphocyte mRNA stability
  
• Bond, Daniel, Ph.D.
  Research Area: Environmental microbiology; bioenergy from microbes
  
• Bresnahan, Wade, Ph.D.
  Research Area: Molecular mechanisms of human cytomegalovirus replication and pathogenesis
  
• Cleary, P. Patrick, Ph.D.
  Research Area: The molecular basis for streptococcal disease
  
• Davis, Dana, Ph.D.
  Research Area: C. albicans genetics and pathogenesis
  
• Dunny, Gary M., Ph.D.
  Research Area: Molecular biology of conjugative gene transfer in Gram-positive bacteria
  
• Gralnick, Jeffrey A., Ph.D.
  Research Area: Physiology of Shewanella; Geomicrobiology
  
• Haase, Ashley, M.D.
  Regents' Professor and Head; Research Area: Molecular mechanisms of HIV pathogenesis
  
• Jemmerson, Ron, Ph.D.
  Research Area: B cell and antibody recognition of protein antigens; Apoptosis and the fate of intracellular autoantigens
  
• Jenkins, Marc, Ph.D.
  Research Area: CD4 T cell biology
  
• Johnson, Russell C., Ph.D.
  Research Area: Molecular pathogenesis; Lyme disease and human granulocytic ehrlichiosis
  
• Masopust, David, Ph.D.
  Research Area: T cell migration, differentiation, and memory development in response to infections
  
• Mohr, Christian, Ph.D.
  Research Area: Molecular pathogenesis of Burkholderia cepacia
  
• Nielsen, Kirsten, Ph.D.
  Research Area: Central nervous system penetration by Cryptococcus neoformans
  
• Rice, Stephen, Ph.D.
  Research Area: Herpes simplex virus gene expression
  
• Schiff, Leslie A., Ph.D.
  Research Area: Virus-host cell interactions, viral protein structure-function
  
• Schlievert, Patrick M., Ph.D.
  Research Area: Immunobiology and genetic control of staphylococcal and streptococcal pyrogenic toxins
  
• Southern, Peter J., Ph.D.
  Research Area: Molecular basis of persistent virus infection and virus-induced disease
  

Microbiology Adjunct Faculty

• Berman, Judith G., Ph.D.
  Research Area: Morphogenesis in Candida albicans; telomere function, aging and chromatin assembly in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
  
• Bey, Russell, Ph.D.
  Research Area: Bovine mastitis
  
• Fleischmann, W. Robert, Ph.D.
  Research Area: Development of cancer vaccines
  
• Germaine, Gregory, Ph.D.
  Research Area: Oral microbiology; microbial physiology
  
• Kapur, Vivek, Ph.D.
  Research Area: Molecular mechanisms of bacterial pathogenicity and evolution
  
• Mansky, Louis M., Ph.D.
  Research Area: Cell and moecular biology of HIV and HTLV; HIV drug resistance; HTLV particle assembly and release; Evolution of emerging viruses
  
• McKay, Larry L., Ph.D.
  Research Area: Plasmid biology, physiology and genetics of lactococci used in milk fermentations
  
• Muscoplat, Charles
  Research Area: Bringing several biotechnology and/biopharmaceutical products to the market; new drug therapies for patients undergoing radiation therapy for head and neck cancer and for patients with Sjogrens Syndrome.
  
• Osterholm, Michael, Ph.D., M.P.H.
  Research Area: Biological agents as catastrophic weapons targeting civilian populations.
  
• Peterson, Marnie, Ph.D., Pharm.D., B.C.P.S.
  Research Area: Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology
  
• Sadowsky, Michael J., Ph.D.
  Research Area: Soil microbiology, biodegradation, rhizobium and bradyrhizobium-host interactions
  
• Vernick, Kenneth, Ph.D.
  Research Area: Malaria parasite interactions with the mosquito vector
  

Microbiology Emeritus Faculty

• Anderson, Dwight L., Ph.D.
  Research Area: Bacillus subtilis bacteriophage 029 morphogenesis
  
• Dworkin, Martin, Ph.D.
  Research Area: Developmental biology; Myxobacteria
  
• Faras, Anthony J., Ph.D.
  Research Area: Tumor viruses, oncogenesis, gene transfer
  
• Hanson, Richard S., Ph.D.
  Research Area: Ecology, biochemistry, and genetics of methylotropic bacteria
  
• Magee, Paul T. (Pete), Ph.D.
  Research Area: Genetics and molecular biology of Candida albicans
  
• Plagemann, Peter G. W., Ph.D.
  Research Area: Virology