Bioinformatics and -omics/Computational Biology

Elucidating biological phenomena by analyzing nucleic acid and protein sequences from microbes and microbial communities

Personnel

Michael Adams

Adjunct Professor

Diana Downs

Professor

Jonathan Frye

Adjunct Research Microbiologist

Zachary Lewis

Professor and Department Head

Xiaorong Lin

Gene E. Michaels Distinguished Professor in Medical Mycology

Cryptococcus neoformans is the causative agent for cryptococcal meningitis. This disease is the most common fungal infection of the central nervous system (CNS) and the third most frequent neurological complication in AIDS patients. Cryptococcal meningitis claims hundreds of thousands of lives annually and is responsible for ~19% of deaths in…

Mary Ann Moran

Adjunct Professor

Tatum Mortimer

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Jan Mrazek

Associate Professor

Ellen L. Neidle

Professor

Elizabeth Ottesen

Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies- Advising

Scott Saunders

Assistant Professor

Christine Szymanski

Professor

Michael Terns

Adjunct Professor

We study CRISPR-Cas immune systems that protect prokaryotes from viruses and provide powerful research tools for important biotechnology and biomedical applications.

M. Stephen Trent

Georgia Regents’ Professor, UGA Foundation Distinguished Professor Department of Infectious Diseases

William B. Whitman

Emeritus Professor of Microbiology

Prokaryotes are the dominant form of life on earth, representing an enormous biomass and number of individual cells. They are so diverse that it is misleading to give them a common name. In one way, they are really just what are left after the familiar plants, animals, fungi and protists are named. Nevertheless, they are the engines that make…