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Research Emphases

Auerbuch Stone Lab

Camps Lab

Flegal Lab

Ottemann Lab

Saltikov Lab

Smith Lab

Yildiz Lab

PostDoctoral Researchers


FACULTY

Victoria Auerbuch Stone, Assistant Professor
The interaction between the gut pathogen Yersinia pseudotuberculosis and the mammalian immune system.
Office: 448 PSB, Office Hours: by appointment, Email, (831)459-3049, Auerbuch Stone Lab

Manel Camps, Assistant Professor
Molecular mechanisms of reactive DNA methylation toxicity.
Office: 434 PSB, Office Hours: by appointment, Email, 831-459-5396, Camps Lab

A. Russell Flegal, Professor
Anthropogenic perturbations of biogeochemical cycles.
Office: 446 PSB, Office Hours: by appointment, Email, (831) 459-2093, Flegal Lab

Karen M. Ottemann, Department Chair, Professor
How pathogenic bacteria such as Helicobacter pylori use environmental cues to establish infection.
Office: 454 PSB, Office Hours: by appointment, Email, (831) 459-3482, Ottemann Lab

Chad Saltikov, Associate Professor
Anaerobic microbiology and biotransformation of pollutants and toxic metals.
Office: 438 PSB, Office Hours: by appointment, Email, (831) 459-5520, Saltikov Lab

Donald R. Smith, Professor
Organismal responses and therapeutic treatment of toxins.
Office: 442 PSB, Office Hours: by appointment, Email, (831) 459-5041, Smith Lab

Fitnat Yildiz, Associate Professor
Microbiology, molecular genetics, genomics. The mechanism of persistence and survival of Vibrio cholerae.
Office: 444 PSB, Office Hours: by appointment, Email, (831) 459-1588, Yildiz Lab

AFFILIATED FACULTY

Affiliated faculty who sponsor METX students:

Adina Paytan Associate Research Scientist, (Institute of Marine Science) Biogeochemistry, chemical oceanography, paleoceanography

Jonathan P. Zehr (Ocean Sciences), Aquatic microbial ecology, biological oceanography

 

Additional Affiliated Faculty:

ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY

Kenneth W. Bruland (Ocean Sciences) Biogeochemistry of trace metals

Don Croll (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology) Foraging ecology of marine sea birds and mammals, island conservation/ecology

Andrew Fisher (Earth Sciences) Hydrology, crustal studies, heat flow modeling

Raphael Kudela (Ocean Sciences) Ecological modeling and remote sensing, satellite oceanography, phytoplankton ecology and harmful algal blooms

Mark Mangel (Applied Mathematics and Statistics) Mathematical modeling of biological phenomena, especially the evolutionary ecology of growth, aging, and longevity; quantitative issues in fishery management; mathematical and computational aspects of disease

Matthew McCarthy (Ocean Sciences)
Organic geochemistry, marine organic geochemistry, global biogeochemical cycles

Peter T. Raimondi (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) Applied marine ecology

CELLULAR TOXICOLOGY

Lindsay Hinck (MCD Biology) Neurobiology, cell biology, development

Ted Holman (Chemistry and Biochemistry) Bioinorganics and biological chemistry

Pradip K. Mascharak (Chemistry and Biochemistry) Bioinorganic chemistry

Glenn Millhauser (Chemistry and Biochemistry) Peptide structure and dynamics, electron spin resonance spectroscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance, agouti proteins

Martha Zuniga (MCD Biology), Molecular, cellular, and developmental biology of the immune system

MICROBIOLOGY

Grant Hartzog (MCD Biology) Biochemistry, genetics, chromatin and transcriptional regulation

Douglas R. Kellogg (MCD Biology) Coordination of cell growth and cell division

Roger Linington (Chemistry and Biochemistry) Marine Natural Products, Drugs for Neglected Diseases, Chemical Biology, Chemical Probes

Todd Lowe (Biomolecular Engineering) Experimental and computation genomics, ncRNA gene finders, DNA microarrays to study the biology of Archaea

Nader Pourmand (Biomolecular Engineering) Development of new tools and technologies that integrate biology, electronics, and nanofabrication for the detection and study of genes and proteins

Joshua Stuart (Biomolecular Engineering) Computational genomics

 

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