Bacteriology
The department has a distinguished history of contributions to understanding bacterial physiology and genetics as well as developing vaccines against bacterial diseases. Several departmental faculty are also members of the Institute for Genome Sciences (IGS), the Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health (CVD), and the Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology (IMET) with overlapping interests in a variety of bacteriology topics, included below:
Antibiotic Resistance: Hazen, Chatterjee
Biology & Pathogenesis: Azad, Barry, Carbonetti, Chatterjee, Ernst, Kaper, Johnson, Scanlon, Skerry, Tennant
Commensal Microbiomes: Fraser, Ravel
Extremophilic & Archaeal Prokaryotes: DasSarma, Robb
Genetics / Genomics: Carneiro da Silva, Dunning Hotopp, Gillespie, Fraser, Gillespie, Hazen, Holm, Kaper, Ma, Rahman, Rasko, Tettelin
Host-pathogen Interactions: Azad, Barry, Carbonetti, Ernst, Pedra, Scanlon, Shirey, Skerry, Tennant
Vaccine Development: Barry, Kaper, Ernst, Levine, Pasetti, Tennant, Sztein