Faculty
Research by the Program faculty is targeted to the study of numerous human, animal, and plant bacterial pathogens.
To see each faculty member's web site, please click on the name. You may also click on the names of the Graduate Field to go to the Field's web site.
Faculty Name & Department |
Research Interest | Graduate Fields | E-mail /
phone (area code 607) |
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Altier, Craig Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sci. |
Infectious Diseases; the molecular basis of Salmonella pathogenesis, studying the genetic and environmental control of epithelial cell invasion | Comparative Biomedical Sci. | ca223@cornell.edu 253-3926 |
Bicalho, Rodrigo Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sci. |
Bacterial etiology of bovine metritis and endometritis; preventive and metaphylactic approaches to uterine diseases | Animal Sci. | rcb28@cornell.edu 253-3140 |
Boor, Kathryn Food Science |
Molecular mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis; Listeria monocytogenes stress response and virulence networks | Environmental Toxicology; Food Sci. & Technology; Microbiology |
kjb4@cornell.edu 255-3111 |
Chang, Yung-Fu Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sci. |
Infectious Diseases; the Molecular basis of Clostridium and Leptospira pathogenesis; Functional Genomics; Zoonsis; Recombinant subunit, DNA and attenuated mutant vaccine development | Comparative Biomedical Sci. | yc42@cornell.edu 253-3675 |
Collmer, Alan Plant Pathology & Plant-Microbe Biology |
Biotechnology; microbial genetics; phytobacteriology | Microbiology; Plant Pathology & Plant-Microbe Biology |
arc2@cornell.edu 255-7843 |
DeLisa, Matthew Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering |
Infectious Diseases; Cellular & Molecular Medicine: molecular biotechnology; protein biogfenesis and folding pathways; protein engineering | Biomedical Engineering; Chemical Engineering; Comparative Biomedical Sci.; Microbiology |
md255@cornell.edu 254-8560 |
Duhamel, Gerald Biomedical Sciences |
Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Infectious Diseases: molecular mechanisms of intestinal bacterial infections in animal models of human diseases | Comparative Biomedical Sci.; Immunology | ged36@cornell.edu 253-4492 |
Marquis, Hélène Microbiology & Immunology |
Pathogenesis of Listeria monocytogenes; mucosal immune response | Comparative Biomedical Sci.; Food Sci. & Technology; Microbiology | hm72@cornell.edu 253-3273 |
Martin, Gregory Boyce Thompson Institute |
Molecular basis of bacterial pathogenesis, plant immunity, and plant disease susceptibility. | Plant Pathology & Plant-Microbe Biology | gbm7@cornell.edu 254-1208 |
Peters, Joseph Microbiology |
Chromosome integrity (Transposition; DNA Replication, Recombination and Repair); Functional Genomics | Microbiology; Genetics and Development |
jep48@cornell.edu 255-2271 |
Russell, David Microbiology & Immunology |
Infectious Diseases; Cellular & Molecular Medicine: biology of intracellular infection, with emphasis on Mycobacteria | Biochemistry, Molecular & Cell Biology; Comparative Biomedical Sci.; Immunology; Microbiology |
dgr8@cornell.edu 253-3401 |
Schukken, Ynte Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sci. |
Pathogenesis and epidemiology of host-adapted intra-mammary infections in the bovine | Comparative Biomedical Sci.; Food Sci. & Technology |
yhs2@cornell.edu 255-8202 |
Simpson, Kenneth Clinical Sciences |
Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Infectious Diseases: Gastroenterology | Comparative Biomedical Sci. | kws5@cornell.edu 253-3251 |
Sondermann, Holger Molecular Medicine |
Signal transduction | Biochemistry, Molecular & Cell Biology; Pharmacology | hs293@cornell.edu 253-3659 |
Song, Jeongmin Microbiology & Immunology |
Pathogenesis of Salmonella Typhi; The role of Typhoid toxin in the development of Typhoid fever | jeongmin.song@ cornell.edu 253-4059 |
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Stanhope, Michael Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sci. |
Infectious Diseases; Population Medicine & Epidemiology: Molecular evolution and comparative genomics of infectious disease organisms | Comparative Biomedical Sci. | mjs297@cornell.edu |
VanderVen, Brian Microbiology & Immunology |
Physiology of the intracellular pathogen M. tuberculosis | bcv8@cornell.edu 253-3586 |
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Wiedmann, Martin Food Sciemce |
Infectious Diseases: Molecular pathogenesis of foodborne and zoonotic bacterial diseases | Comparative Biomedical Sci.; Food Sci. & Technology; Microbiology |
mw16@cornell.edu 254-2838 |
Winans, Stephen Microbiology |
Use Agrobacterium tumefaciens as a model to study how cells detect other cells; this plant pathogen detects a variety of chemical signal molecules released from host plant cells and also uses a type of bacterial pheromone called an autoinducer to estimate its population densities | Microbiology | scw2@cornell.edu 255-2413 |