Miami University

Miami Microbiology Faculty

Research-active Faculty

Luis A. Actis Professor and Chair (Ph.D., Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina 1982)	Molecular mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis
Mitchell F. Balish Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Emory University, 1998)	Cellular, subcellular, and molecular studies of morphology, organization, and division in Mycoplasma species
Annette Bollmann Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Philipps University, 1996)	Ecophysiology of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria; Culturing the unculturables
Eileen K. Bridge Associate Professor (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1990)	Adenovirus host cell interactions
Joseph M. Carlin Professor (Ph.D., Michigan State University 1985)	Immunology of intracellular Chlamydia infections; molecular mechanisms of interferon-mediated immunity
Xiao-Wen Cheng Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Clemson University 1998)	Host-range factors of baculovirus and gene transcription strategies of ascovirus
Iddo Friedberg Assistant Professor (Ph.D., The Hebrew University 2002)	Bioinformatics; microbial genomics & metagenomics; protein function prediction; protein function promiscuity and moonlighting; evolution of pathways
D.J. Ferguson Assistant Professor (Ph.D., The Ohio State University 2000)	Physiology of methyltrophic methanogenic archaea
Gary R. Janssen Associate Professor (Ph.D., University of Minnesota 1983)	Translation of leaderless mRNA; molecular analysis of antibiotic resistance genes; phosphate regulation of secondary metabolism in Streptomyeces
Marcia R. Lee Associate Professor (D.V.M., University of Minnesota 1980)	Use of ice-nucleating active bacteria and fungi for biological control
Rachael Morgan-Kiss Assistant Professor (Ph.D., University of Western Ontario, 2000)	Functional and structural characterization of the photosynthetic apparatus of Antarctic green algae

Instructional and Administrative Faculty

Kelly Z. Abshire Lecturer (Ph.D., University of Michigan 1991)	Identification of bacterial proteins important in intracellular survival
Rebecca Balish Visiting Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Emory University, 1999)	37 PSN 529-5406 balishrs@muohio.edu
Marjorie (Kelly) Cowan Professor and Dean, Miami University Middletown (Ph.D., University of Louisville 1987)	Description and disruption of microbial adhesion
Deborah Phillips Visiting Assistant Professor (Ed.D., University of Cincinnati, 2004)	37 PSN 529-5406 phillidj@muohio.edu
John R. Stevenson Associate Professor (Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University 1972)	Mechanisms of macrophage function; protein malnutrition-induced immunodeficiency
Mary E. Woodworth Professor and Senior Associate Provost (Ph.D., Temple University 1968)	Molecular biology of tumor viruses; regulation of eukaryotic DNA replication and gene expression

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