Wayne M. Barnes, PhD
Inventing a new way to sequence DNA; PCR at one temp; RT-enabled Taq pol.
- Email: barneswm@wustl.edu
Rebecca Bart, PhD
When plant disease occurs, it can be devastating to farmers and consumers. Pesticides are often employed in an attempt to limit spread, further adding to the total cost of disease.
- Email: rbart@danforthcenter.org
Joshua Blodgett, PhD
Interdisciplinary questions surrounding bacterial small molecule production
- Email: jblodgett@wustl.edu
Arpita Bose, PhD
Our lab studies microbial metabolisms and their influence on biogeochemical cycling using an interdisciplinary approach.
- Email: abose@wustl.edu
Alex Bradley, PhD
I am a biogeochemist interested the ways in which the evolution of life on Earth and the evolution of the Earth`s environment have affected one another over the course of Earth history.
- Email: abradley@eps.wustl.edu
Thomas B. Croat, PhD
My research interests involve the systematics, floristics and ecology of the family Araceae (philodendron family).
- Email: tcroat@wustl.edu
Ram Dixit, PhD
Cytoskeleton, microtubules, molecular motors, optical molecular imaging, plant biology
- Email: ramdixit@wustl.edu
Tamara L. Doering, MD, PhD
Gene regulation, host-pathogen interactions, biochemistry, microbial pathogenesis, pathogenic fungi, yeast, glycobiology, biosynthetic pathways, blood-brain barrier, host response
- Email: doering@wustl.edu
Susan K. Dutcher, PhD
Signal transduction, centrioles, cilia, human ciliopathies
- Email: dutcher@wustl.edu
Andrea Eveland, PhD
Inflorescence architecture, e.g. the number, length and angle of branches and flowers, is a primary determinant of yield, regulating seed number and harvesting ability.
- Email: aeveland@danforthcenter.org
David A. Fike, PhD
Microbial biogeochemistry, stable isotope geochemistry, microbial mats, carbon cycling, sulfur cycling, Earth history
- Email: dfike@wustl.edu
James Fleckenstein, MD
Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli; microbial pathogenesis; vaccine development; diarrheal disease
- Email: jflecken@wustl.edu
Peter C. Hoch, PhD
I am interested in understanding plant evolution on a broad scale, why some species and genera are so successful (sometimes even invasive) and why other closely related taxa are rare or threatened.
- Email: peter.hoch@mobot.org
Joseph Jez, PhD
Biochemistry, enzymology, plant biology, protein engineering, protein structure, structural biology
- Email: jjez@biology2.wustl.edu
Elizabeth A. Kellogg, PhD
We are fascinated by the elegant and diverse forms that plants can take, and we explore the biological basis of this diversity.
- Email: ekellogg@danforthcenter.org
Robert G. Kranz, PhD
Bacteria, gene expression, protein structure, plant biosensors, cytochromes
- Email: kranz@biology.wustl.edu
Barbara N. Kunkel, PhD
Plant-pathogen interactions, bacterial pathogenesis, virulence mechanisms, auxin, genetics, regulation of gene expression
- Email: kunkel@biology.wustl.edu
Tae Seok Moon, PhD
Synthetic Biology; Systems Biology; Metabolic Engineering; Protein Engineering; Genetic Circuits
- Email: tsmoon@wustl.edu
Dmitri Nusinow, PhD
Circadian clock in plant growth, physiology and development
- Email: dnusinow@danforthcenter.org
Audrey R. Odom John, MD, PhD
Malaria, metabolism, microbiology, parasitology, drug development, diagnostics
- Phone: 314-747-2370
- Email: odom_a@wustl.edu
Kenneth M. Olsen, PhD
My research focuses on the genetic basis of evolution in plants: how is the genetic variation that we find within a species shaped by natural selection, population history, and other evolutionary forces?
- Email: kolsen@wustl.edu
Himadri B. Pakrasi, PhD
Bioenergy, membrane proteins, photosynthesis, redox processes, systems biology
- Email: pakrasi@wustl.edu
Sona Pandey, PhD
Heterotrimeric G-proteins, abscisic acid, G-proteins, molecular genetics, biochemistry, genomics, proteomics, protein-protein interactions
- Email: spandey@danforthcenter.org
Rohit V. Pappu, PhD
Huntington’s disease, Polyglutamine Aggregation, Intrinsically Disordered Proteins, Phase transitions in cell biology, Self-assembly, Transcriptional regulation, Small-scale Systems Biology & Interaction Networks
- Email: pappu@wustl.edu
Eleanor Pardini
I am broadly interested in the effects of genetic and ecological processes on population dynamics of invasive and rare plants. My research addresses questions that lie at the interface of population ecology and population genetics.
- Email: epardini@wustl.edu
Rachel M. Penczykowski, PhD
The ecology and evolution of infectious diseases, with a focus on wild populations of herbaceous plant hosts and their powdery mildew pathogens.
- Phone: 314-935-8282
- Email: rpenczykowski@wustl.edu
Jan Salick, PhD
Climate change, Alpine botany, Ethnobotany, Tropical ecology, Agroecology, Traditional knowledge and science, Biocultural collections
- Email: jan.salick@mobot.org
Christina L. Stallings, PhD
Bacteria, gene regulation, molecular genetics, microbiology, pathogenesis, transcription, infectious disease
- Email: stallings@wustl.edu
Christopher N. Topp, PhD
The Topp Lab takes a phenomics approach to study crop root growth dynamics in response to environmental stress such as drought and rhizosphere competition…
- Email: ctopp@danforthcenter.org
James Umen, PhD
I maintain a diverse and interdisciplinary research program aimed at answering fundamental questions in eukaryotic cell biology, evolution and development using the green algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Chlamydomonas) and Volvox carteri (Volvox).
- Email: jumen@danforthcenter.org
Richard D. Vierstra, PhD
Defining how ubiquitin and other post-translational modifiers contribute to cellular regulation and turnover and how the phytochrome photoreceptor system controls plant and microbial development.
- Email: rdvierstra@wustl.edu
Joseph P. Vogel, PhD
Bacterial pathogenesis, type IV secretion, macrophage, immunology, disease
- Email: jvogel@wustl.edu
David Wang, PhD
Microbial pathogenesis, functional genomics, virology, genome analysis, computational biology
- Email: davewang@wustl.edu
Hani Zaher, PhD
Translation, Ribosome, RNA, Fidelity, peptide-bond formation, pre-steady state kinetics, translational regulation
- Email: hzaher@wustl.edu
Fuzhong Zhang, PhD
Synthetic biology, Metabolic engineering, regulatory systems, cellular biosensor, biofuels, biomaterials
- Email: fzhang29@wustl.edu