Biological Sciences Research Area: Environmental Microbiology

Dr. Peter Dunfield
Ecology and genomics of extremophilic bacteria; environmental microbiology of the methane cycle.
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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. Ann Gregory
Viromics; viral ecology & evolution; viral discovery; synthetic ecology, genomics, environmental microbiology, biodiversity.
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Dr. Joe Harrison
Microbial population biology; biofilm microbiology; bacterial genetics and genomics; cyclic-di-GMP signalling; antibiotic and metal resistance; chronic infectious disease.
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Dr. Casey Hubert
Particular research interests include extremophiles (anaerobic thermophiles) such as dormant thermophilic bacteria in permanently cold Arctic marine sediments that appear to derive from deep hot petroleum deposits.
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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. David Layzell
Energy systems analysis including modeling the energy-environmental footprint of biological systems.
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Dr. Raymond J. Turner
Metal resistance in bacteria; private molecular chaperones for the tat-Ttanslocase; Integral membrane protein structure and folding; fluorescence spectroscopy.
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