Joan W. Bennett, Professor of Plant Biology and Pathology, SEBS; Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs; Ph.D., Chicago Genetics and biosynthesis of fungal natural products; fungal genomics
Debashish Bhattacharya, Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, SEBS; Ph.D., Simon Fraser (Canada) Algal evolution; genomics; endosymbiosis; red tides; plastids; tree of life
Kay D. Bidle, Assistant Professor of Marine Sciences, SEBS; Ph.D., California (San Diego) Marine microbiology; microbial physiology and mortality, virology; gene expression; molecular ecology and evolution
Jeffrey M. Boyd, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Microbiology, SEBS; Ph.D.,
Utah State Microbial biochemistry and molecular genetics; Integration of iron and iron-sulfur cluster metabolism with cellular processes.
George M. Carman, Professor of Food Science, SEBS; Ph.D., Massachusetts Molecular biology of phospholipid biosynthesis in yeast
Michael Chikindas, Associate Professor of Food Science, SEBS; Ph.D., Institute of Genetics and Selection of Industrial Microorganisms (Russia)
Microbiology; genetics; biotechnology; probiotics; antimicrobial peptides
Bruce B. Clarke, Professor of Plant Biology and Pathology, SEBS; Director, Center for Turfgrass Science; Ph.D., Rutgers. Turfgrass pathology; soilborne diseases; disease forecasting and control; mycology.
G. Charles Dismukes, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, SAS/WIM, and of Biochemistry and Microbiology, SEBS; Ph.D., Wisconsin (Madison) Microbial metabolism and renewable energy production
Siobain Duffy, Assistant Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, SEBS; Ph.D., Yale Emerging viruses; experimental evolution; bioinformatics
Richard H. Ebright, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and Professor of Chemistry, SAS/WIM; Ph.D., Harvard Mechanism and regulation of bacterial transcription; small-molecule inhibitors of bacterial transcription
Paul G. Falkowski, Professor of Geological Sciences and Professor of Marine and Coastal Sciences, SAS/SEBS; Ph.D., British Columbia (Canada) Evolution of biogeochemical cycles; photosynthesis; symbiosis and phytoplankton ecology; biological oceanography
Nicole Fahrenfeld, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, SoE; Ph.D., Virginia Tech Environmental chemistry and environmental microbiology to promote water quality and sustainability.
Donna E. Fennell, Associate Professor of Environmental Sciences, SEBS, Ph.D., Cornell Microbial processes for bioremediation and waste management
Robert M. Goodman, Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources; Ph.D., Cornell Diversity and function of microorganisms in natural environments
Max M. Häggblom, Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry and Microbiology, SEBS; Ph.D., Helsinki (Finland) Environmental microbiology and microbial ecology; biodegradation and bioremediation
Lee Kerkhof, Professor of Marine and Coastal Sciences, SEBS; Ph.D., California (SD) Marine microbiology; molecular ecology; microbial population dynamics
Donald Y. Kobayashi, Professor of Plant Biology and Pathology, SEBS; Ph.D., California (Riverside) Plant bacteriology; host-pathogen interactions; molecular biology
Kwangwon Lee, Assistant Professor of Biology (Camden); Ph.D. Texas A&M Circadian clock/light regulation, fungal genetics, fungal ecology, systems biology
Desmond Lun, Professor - Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Rutgers Camden. Research interests are in synthetic biology, systems biology, biological signal processing, and network science.
Kenneth McKeever, Professor of Animal Sciences, SEBS; Ph.D. Univ. of Arizona Equine exercise and environmental physiology; neuroendocrine control of cardio-renal function
Gediminas Mainelis, Associate Professor of Environmental Sciences, SEBS; Ph.D. Cincinnati Biological aerosols
Karl Matthews, Associate Professor of Food Science, SEBS; Ph.D., Kentucky Genetics understanding of virulence and survival mechanisms of food-borne pathogens
Peter J. Morin, Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, SEBS; Ph.D., Duke Community ecology; Microbial Ecology
Bryce E. Nickels, Assistant Professor of Genetics, SAS/WIM; Ph.D., Harvard Mechanisms of transcription; regulation of bacterial gene expression
Peter Oudemans, Associate Professor of Plant Biology and Pathology, SEBS; Ph.D.,
California (Riverside) Fungal plant diseases; population biology of fungi
John R. Reinfelder, Professor of Environmental Sciences, SEBS; Ph.D., SUNY (Stony Brook) Trace element cycling and bioavailability; inorganic carbon acquisition in marine phytoplankton
Donald W. Schaffner, Extension Specialist in Food Science, SEBS; Ph.D., Georgia Predictive food microbiology; quantitative microbial risk assessment
Ann M. Stock, Dept of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, SAS; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley Structure/function anaylsis of signal transduction proteins
Paul Takhistov, Professor of Food Engineering Department of Food Science, SEBS. Ph.D Univ. of Notre Dame. Research interests are in understanding the physico-chemical interactions between multiphase matrices with biotic and abiotic materials
Nilgun E. Tumer, Professor of Plant Biology and Pathology, SEBS; Ph.D., Purdue Molecular biology of plant viruses; virus replication; disease resistance; plant transformation
Andrew K. Vershon, Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, WIM/SAS; Ph.D.,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Regulation of gene expression in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Costantino Vetriani, Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Microbiology, SEBS/IMCS; Ph.D.; Rome La Sapienza (Italy) Deep-sea microbiology; extremophiles; molecular ecology; adaptations to extreme environments
James White, Professor of Plant Biology and Pathology, SEBS/NJAES; Ph.D., Texas Fungal systematics; ecology of fungi; fungal-plant symbioses
Lori A. White, Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Microbiology; Ph.D., Dartmouth Molecular mechanisms of xenobiotic-induced pathologies
Nancy A. Woychik, Professor- Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology - UMDNJ Ph.D University of Wisconsin. Bacterial Pathogenesis
Nathan Yee, Assistant Professor of Environmental Sciences, SEBS; Ph.D., Notre Dame Geomicrobiology and geochemistry
Lily Y. Young, Professor of Environmental Sciences, SEBS; Ph.D., Harvard Anaerobic microbial metabolism of contaminant chemicals; microbial biodegradation; bioremediation
Ning Zhang, Assistant Professor of Plant Biology and Pathology and of Biochemistry and Microbiology, SEBS; Ph.D., Louisiana State Population; evolutionary biology; molecular detection of fungi on grasses
Gerben Zylstra, Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry and Microbiology, SEBS; Ph.D., Michigan Metagenomics; molecular and biochemical analysis of biodegradation pathways
