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Microbiology MS/PhD Program Faculty
Program Directors
Name
Contact
Associate Professor
Blattman is an immunologist who studies how the immune system responds to vaccination and viral infection.
480-965-2909
Microbiology (PhD)
The microbiology graduate program offers a dynamic research environment, broad range of basic, translational and use-...
Program Faculty
Name
Contact
Expertise
Professor
Morteza Abbaszadegan is a professor of environmental microbiology/engineering and founding director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Water & Environmental Technology (WET) Center at ASU.
480-965-3868
ISTB4 373
Professor
Dr. Anderson is a tumor biologist who studies how the immune system can be harnessed to detect and alter cancer development.
480-965-6982
Biodesign A220A 1001 S. McAllister Ave
Assistant Professor
Bean applies bioanalytical chemistry methods to characterize microbial metabolomes and identify biomarkers of lung disease.
480-727-3395
LSE 315 School of Life Sciences
Associate Professor
Blattman is an immunologist who studies how the immune system responds to vaccination and viral infection.
480-965-2909
Assoc Professor
Cadillo-Quiroz studies how microbes participate in ecosystem and applied processes.
480-965-4482
LSE 723 School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University
Professor
Chang is an immunologist who studies the development and function of the immune system and uses DNA nanostructure to design and construct more useful vaccines and immunotherapeutic agents.
480-965-8672
BIODESIGN BLDG A
Professor
Garcia-Pichel is the dean of natural sciences for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He studies the roles, adaptations and impacts of microbes in natural environments, from desert soils to shallow marine waters.
480-727-7534
LSE 218
Assistant Professor
Gile is an evolutionary microbiologist who studies single-celled eukaryotes (protists) and symbiosis.
480-727-4761
Associate Professor
Haydel is an infectious disease microbiologist who investigates novel antimicrobials, rapid infectious disease diagnostics, and how bacteria cause disease in humans.
480-727-7234
BDB 320A
Professor
Hogue is a virologist who studies how coronaviruses, a large family of RNA viruses, that includes severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), assemble and cause disease.
480-965-9478
Biodesign Institute A320D
Assistant Professor
Ian Hogue is a virologist who studies how alpha herpesviruses, including human Herpes Simplex Virus 1 (HSV-1), infects the nervous system.
480-727-7322
Director and Professor
Jacobs is an expert on a poxvirus called vaccinia. He has genetically engineered vaccinia as a vehicle against infectious agents, bioterrorism threats, cancer and other viruses, including HIV.
480-965-4684
BDA 310C
Vice Provost, Dean, Barrett Honors College, Professor
A Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, Jacobs is the author of more than 50 publications on the physiological and molecular control of plant development, He is also the dean of Barrett Honors College at ASU.
480-965-2354
Sage North
Professor
Johnston work focuses on innovative solutions to fundamental problems in biomedicine, including the development of a universal preventative cancer vaccine. He holds 20 patents.
480-727-0792
BDB 230A BIODESIGN
Associate Professor
Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown's lab uses microbiological skills, genomic techniques and environmental engineering to study biodegradation of water contaminants, biotechnology for renewable bioenergy production and the gut microbiome.
480-727-7574
BDA 210
Associate Professor
Lake is a cellular and molecular immunologist who is working on biologic inhibitors of tumor cell metastasis. He is also developing a new test for Valley Fever that provides a diagnosis for patients with acute disease.
480-301-4993
Mayo Clinic Collaborative Research Bldg Room 2-113
Professor
Mor is a molecular biologist and biochemist whose research focuses on using plants to produce useful and therapeutic polypeptides, proteins and enzymes.
480-727-7405
LSE 309
Assistant Professor
Efrem Lim studies how the virome (community of viruses) shapes human health and disease. His expertise is in mother-infant health and transplant diseases.
480-965-8667
Biodesign Institute, BDA 320B
Associate Professor
Hugh Mason was the first to publish peer-reviewed work on the use of plants for production of vaccine antigens.
480-727-8228
LSE 323 (Ofc), 332 (Lab)
Center Director & Professor
Grant McFadden directs the Biodesign Center for Immunotherapy, Vaccines, and Virotherapy (B-CIVV) at ASU. The McFadden lab studies how poxviruses that cause immunosuppression interact with the host immune system.
480-727-3388
Professor
Rajeev Misra is a microbial geneticist who studies how proteins, synthesized in the cytoplasm, are targeted to the bacterial outer membrane. He also examines the mechanisms of drug resistance.
480-965-3320
LSE 407
Professor; Associate Director, Graduate Programs
Neuer is a biological oceanographer and plankton ecologist and studies the oceanic carbon cycle, particularly the role of plankton organisms in uptake and sequestration of anthropogenic carbon dioxide.
480-727-7254
Arizona State University School of Life Sciences, LSE 421
Professor
Cheryl Nickerson studies the effects of biomechanical forces on living cells, how this response is related to normal cellular homeostasis or infectious disease, and its translation to clinical application.
480-727-7520
BDB 340C
Professor
Bruce Rittmann is director of the Biodesign Swette Center for Environmental Biotechnology and Regents' Professor in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Build Environment in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering.
480-727-0434
BDA 210B
Professor
Shock has appointments in the School of Molecular Sciences and School of Earth and Space Exploration and is director of the W. M. Keck Foundation Laboratory for Environmental Biogeochemistry at ASU.
480-965-0631
PSC -C306A PHYSICAL SCIENCE CENTER
Associate Professor
Varsani is a molecular virologist who works across ecosystems from plants to animals and from the tropics to polar regions.
480-727-2093
Foundation Professor
Vermaas and his team conduct basic and applied research on cyanobacteria, a group of photosynthetic microbes, using these organisms as a chassis to produce useful compounds (biofuels, green chemicals) from sunlight and CO2.
480-965-6250
LSE 549
Asst Professor
Wang is an applied microbiologist, working at the interface between microbial genetics and metabolic engineering to develop new microbial production processes.
480-965-7789
LSE 523 427 E. Tyler Mall