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Prokaryotic genetics and genomics

Faculty in the Cell and Developmental Biology graduate program with research interests in this area.

Name	Email/phone	Interests include
Ades, Sarah Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	ades@psu.edu 814-863-1088 (University Park)	Signal transduction and antibiotic-induced stress responses in bacteria.
Harvill, Eric Associate Professor of Microbiology and Infectious Disease	harvill@psu.edu 814-863-8522 (University Park)	Interactions between bacterial pathogens (primarily Bordetella spp) and the host immune system, including virulence factors, host immune functions and genomics.
Keiler, Kenneth Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	kkeiler@psu.edu 814-863-0787 (University Park)	Small RNAs and protein localization in bacterial development and antimicrobial drug discovery.
Ma, Hong Distinguished Professor of Biology Chair, Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Cell and Developmental Biology	hxm16@psu.edu 814-863-6414 (University Park)	Molecular evolutionary genomics of prokaryotic gene families for DNA metabolism and other functions.
Nixon, B. Tracy Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	btn1@psu.edu 814-865-3679 (University Park)	Signal transduction in prokaryotes; functional domains of Rhizobium dct genes.