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Microbial Ecology

Interactions of microorganisms with the environment, and their roles in natural communities

Personnel

Kurt M. Dahlstrom

Assistant Professor

Courtney Ellison

Assistant Professor

Jonathan Frye

Adjunct Research Microbiologist

Michelle Momany

Adjunct Professor

Mary Ann Moran

Adjunct Professor

Tatum Mortimer

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Kerry M. Oliver

Adjunct Professor

Elizabeth Ottesen

Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies- Advising

Anne O. Summers

Professor

Christine Szymanski

Professor, Associate Department Head

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…

Research

  • Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
  • Bioinformatics and -omics
  • Microbe-Host Interactions
  • Microbial Ecology
  • Microbial Physiology
  • Molecular Microbiology

More Research

  • Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
  • Bioinformatics and -omics/Computational Biology
  • Microbe-Host Interactions
  • Microbial Ecology
  • Microbial Physiology
  • Molecular Microbiology

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