Microbiology Faculty

CHRISTOPHER BLACKWOOD - community and physiological ecology of soil microorganisms; ecosystems processes in forest and agricultural systems; symbiotic relationships between microbes and plants

KIM FINER - (Stark Campus) - isolation and characterization of a compound(s) associated with conversion of Agrobacterium tumefaciens to a filamentous form; the relationship between morphological conversion of the organism and plant transformation rates

ROBERT T. HEATH - Biochemical limnology; phosphorus dynamics in aquatic ecosystems; planktonic biochemistry and physiological ecology; land-use impact on planktonic community development in Lake Erie; composition and significance of dissolved organic matter in controlling planktonic community production; biochemical indicators of eutrophication; Great Lakes coastal wetlands

ADAM LEFF - aquatic microbiology; bacterial assemblage associated with tire landfills; interaction between bacteria and invertebrate and vertebrate aquatic organisms

LAURA G. LEFF - Microbial ecology of aquatic ecosystems with emphasis on bacterial ecology of streams with the ultimate goal of integrating different fields of biology (i.e., ecology, microbiology, molecular biology) to provide insight into the function and structure of aquatic ecosystems

XIAOZHEN MOU - Ecological roles of microorganisms in the global cycling of essential nutrients; phylogenetic and metabolic diversity of bacterial communities in aquatic systems; metagenomics and metatranscriptomics in aquatic systems

HELEN PIONTKIVSKA - Molecular evolution of genes and genomes, large-scale analyses of genomic sequences, adaptive evolution of host-parasite interactions