Biological Sciences Research Area: Biotechnology

Dr. Peter Dunfield
Ecology and genomics of extremophilic bacteria; environmental microbiology of the methane cycle.
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Dr. Peter Facchini
Biochemistry; molecular and cell biology of plant secondary metabolism; metabolic engineering in plants.
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Dr. Lisa Gieg
Anaerobic hydrocarbon metabolism; bioremediation; enhanced energy recovery; molecular biology/ecology of hydrocarbon resource environments; biotechnological applications in petroleum industry.
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Dr. Michael Hynes
Molecular biology of plant-microbe interactions; regulation of genes involved in rhizobium symbiosis; rhizobium plasmids; chemotaxis; microbial ecology.
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Dr. Ian Lewis
Improving our understanding of how to diagnose and treat antibiotic resistant pathogens, using mass spectrometry and nuclear magnetic resonance imaging to quantify flow of molecules between pathogen and host.
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Dr. Elmar Prenner
Membrane architecture; domains and lipid rafts; biophysical techniques; DNA labelling.
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Dr. Dae-Kyun Ro
Biochemistry and molecular genetics of plant secondary metabolisms; plant and microbial metabolic engineering for the production of pharmaceuticals, nutrient-enhanced crops, and renewable energy.
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Dr. Peter Tieleman
Computer simulations of biological membranes and membrane proteins.
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Dr. Raymond J. Turner
Metal resistance in bacteria; private molecular chaperones for the Tat-Translocase; integral membrane protein structure and folding; fluorescence spectroscopy.
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