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Core MCB Faculty Profiles: Molecular Biology

• Elliott S. Goldstein, Associate Professor (Biology); Ph.D., Minnesota, 1972. Genetics; developmental regulation; regulation of gene expression in Drosophila .
  
• J. Kenneth Hoober, Professor (Plant Biology); Ph.D., Michigan, 1965. Biogenesis of chloroplast membranes; photoregulation of gene expression in plants and bacteria; role of proteases in development of cell structure.
  
• Bertram L. Jacobs, Professor (Microbiology); Ph.D., Berkeley, 1981. Molecular virology; antiviral mechanisms of interferon action; translational control of gene expression.
  
• Sudhir Kumar, (Biology) Ph.D., Penn State U. Molecular evolutionary genetics with emphasis on (1) development of statistical tools for large data set and genome analyses, and (2) the studies of patterns of gene and genome evolution.
  
• Christian Lorson , Assistant Professor (Biology); Ph.D., University of Missouri Medical School, 1997. Molecular Genetics of neuromuscular disorders; RNA processing/splicing; transcription regulation; protein-protein interactions.
  
• Rajeev Misra, Professor (Microbiology); Ph.D., Adelaide (Australia),1986. Targeting and assembly of bacterial outer membrane proteins; secretion of toxin and antibiotic resistance in bacteria; biology of host (bacterial cell) and parasite (bacterial viruses) interactions; and channel proteins.
  
• Stuart Newfeld, Assistant Professor (Biology); Ph.D., Emory, 1992. Molecular Genetics; Intercellular signaling during development.
  
• Anneta Razatos, Assistant Professor (Chemical and Materials Engineering); Ph.D. Texas at Austin, 1999. Bacterial adhesion and biofilms, genetic engineering to identify genes involved in adhesion and biofilm formation.
  
• David Rhoads, Associate Professor (Plant Biology); Ph.D., Michigan, 1992. Molecular genetic approach to identify components of the regulatory system in higher plants that controls the expression of nuclearly-encoded, mitochondrial protein genes (NEMP genes).
  
• Georgia F. Smith, Associate Professor (Biology); Ph.D., California, Riverside, 1979. Genetics; regulation of gene expression by interferons.
  
• Valerie Stout, Associate Professor (Microbiology); Ph.D., Kansas State, 1987. Biofilm development as related to urinary tract infections; role of exopolysaccharide biosynthesis and regulation in biofilm development.
  
• Willem F. J. Vermaas, Professor (Plant Biology); Ph.D, Agricultural University (Netherlands), 1984. Functional genomics of photosynthesis and respiration; protein engineering and metabolic engineering; pigment biosynthesis; molecular genetics of cyanobacteria.

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