IU STARS Mentors - Microbiology
Carl Bauer
Molecular biology and gene regulation in photosynthetic bacteria.
Jim Bever
Ecology and evolution of plants and fungi.
Yves Brun: Mechanisms and regulation of bacterial development; cell division; gene regulation; cell biology; genetic engineering; microscopy.
Lingling Chen
Biochemistry studies of microbial communication, microbe-host interaction, and molecular chaperon-assisted protein folding.
Keith Clay
Ecological and genetic processes in natural plant populations.
Jim Drummond
Biochemistry of DNA repair and metabolism
Pat Foster
Mutagenesis, DNA Replication and Recombination. Mutations, heritable changes in an organism’s genome, are crucial for evolution but also impact human health. Using the bacterium Escherichia coli as a model system, we employ genetic and molecular techniques to investigate the mechanisms by which mutations arise.
Clay Fuqua: Studies of how and why microorganisms communicate with each other when they do important things, such as cause disease.
David Giedroc
Working in four separate areas united by their common use of the tools of biophysical chemistry, bioinorganic chemistry and structural biology to solve interesting "nucleic acid-centric" problems in biological regulation.
Dan Kearns
Bacterial motility and multicellular behavior.
Stefan Surzycki
Physical mapping of chloroplast DNA of Chlamydomonas reinhardi and its expression
Greg Velicer
Ecology and evolution of bacterial social behavior.
Mimi Zolan
Meiosis and DNA repair.
