Faculty
See Also: Faculty | Adjunct | Research | Staff
| Faculty | Title | Research | |
| Jeffrey M. Becker | Professor; Head of Microbiology | membrane transport, structure and function of peptide pheromones/hormones and their receptors, signal transduction pathways, fungal virulence factors, and antifungal drug development | jbecker@utk.edu |
| Gladys Alexandre | Associate Professor | chemotaxis signal transduction and motility in plant-associated bacteria | galexan2@utk.edu |
| Alison Buchan | Assistant Professor | roles of microbes in natural environments, linking microbial taxa to critical ecosystem processes, functional gene diversity and biogeochemical processes, and enzymes and catabolic pathways | abuchan@utk.edu |
| Igor B. Jouline (Zhulin) | Joint Faculty Professor | computational genomics of signal transduction | ijouline@utk.edu joulineib@ornl.gov |
| Robert N. Moore | Professor; Associate Dean for Research, College of Veterinary Medicine | rmoore1@utk.edu | |
| Thandi Onami | Assistant Professor | viral immunology and memory T cell differentiation; role of glycosylation in T cell function and migration; mucosal memory, apoptosis. | tonami@utk.edu |
| Todd Reynolds | Assistant Professor | formation of multicellular, surface-attached microbial communites called biofilms, and fungal pathogenesis. | treynol6@utk.edu |
| W. Stuart Riggsby | Professor Emeritus | sriggsby@utk.edu | |
| Mark Y. Sangster | Assistant Professor | viral immunology, particularly B cell responses to influenza infection and vaccination and the nature of B cell memory. | msangste@utk.edu |
| Gary S. Sayler | Beaman Distinguished Professor of Microbiology, and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Director of the Joint Institute for Biological Sciences and Director of the Center for Environmental Biotechnology | analysis of biodegradative microbial community structure and function, genetic engineering strategies for biodegradative and biosensing organisms. | sayler@utk.edu |
| Pamela L. C. Small | Professor | bacterial pathogenesis, lipid-based virulence determinants in mycobacterial species, ecology of infectious diseases. | psmall@utk.edu |
| Tim E. Sparer | Assistant Professor | cytomegaloviruses' modulation of the immune system, cytomegalovirus pathogenesis and dissemination, viral chemokines in atherosclerosis, the evolution of viral chemokines in cytomegaloviruses, chemokine receptors and their role in tumorigenesis. | tsparer@utk.edu |
| Chunlei Su | Assistant Professor | virulence and population genetics of Toxoplasma gondii. | csu1@utk.edu |
| David C. White (deceased) | UTK/ORNL Distinguished Scientist; Executive Director, Center for Biomarker Analysis; Professor |
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| Steven W. Wilhelm | Associate Professor | marine and freshwater microbial ecology and diversity, harmful algal blooms, aquatic biogeochemistry and aquatic viral ecology. | wilhelm@utk.edu |
| Erik Zinser | Assistant Professor | molecular ecology, genetics, and genomics of marine and freshwater cyanobacteria. | ezinser@utk.edu |