Faculty Research Interests

DEPARTMENTAL FACULTY

	Tamar Barkay, Ph.D Professor Email: barkay@aesop.rutgers.edu Office: 333 Lipman Hall Phone: 732.932.9763 ext. 333 Research Interest: Microbial transformation of metals
	William J. Belden, Ph.D Assistant Professor Email: belden@aesop.rutgers.edu Office:121 Lipman Hall Phone: 732.932.9763 ext. 121 Research Interest: Chromatin-remodeling and Epigenetics, Circadian clock-regulated gene expression, and non-coding RNA
	Elisabetta Bini, Ph.D Assistant Professor Email: bini@aesop.rutgers.edu Office:122 Lipman Hall Phone: 732.932.9763 ext. 122 Research Interest: Regulation of gene expression in response to heavy metals exposure by hyperthermophilic archaeal organisms
	Jeff Boyd, Ph.D Assistant Professor Email: jmboyd@aesop.rutgers.edu Office:329 Lipman Hall Phone: 732.932.9763 ext. 329 Research Interest: Detection and response of organisms to oxidative stress, biological iron-sulfur cluster assembly and repair
	Yana Bromberg, Ph.D Assistant Professor Email:yanab@rci.rutgers.edu Office: 218 Lipman Hall Phone:732.932. 9763 ext. 218 Research Interest: Bioinformatics approaches to protein function prediction and genome variation analysis
	Keith Cooper, Ph.D Professor Email: cooper@aesop.rutgers.edu Office: 218 Lipman Hall Phone:732.932. 9763 ext. 218 Research Interest: Xenobiotic metabolism in aquatic animals
	Diane Davis, Ph.D Instructor, Microbiology Email: davis@aesop.rutgers.edu Office: 220 Lipman Hall/ Food Science Phone: 732.932.9763 ext. 220
	Charles Dismukes, Ph.D Professor II Email:dismukes@rci.rutgers.edu Office: Wright Lab-211 Phone: 732-445-1489 Research Interest: Biophysical Chemistry;Inorganic Chemistry
	Douglas E. Eveleigh, Ph.D Professor II Email: eveleigh@aesop.rutgers.edu Office: 328 Lipman Hall Phone: 732.932.9763 ext. 328 Research Interest: Microbial transformation of plant polysaccharides; hyperthermophilic enzymes; conservation of antique manuscripts; history of microbiology
	Max Häggblom, Ph.D Professor II, Department Chair Email: haggblom@aesop.rutgers.edu Office: 326 Lipman Hall Phone: 732.932.9763 ext. 326 Research Interest: Environmental and applied microbiology, biodegradation and bioremediation
	Peter Kahn, Ph.D Professor Email: kahn@aesop.rutgers.edu Office:120 Lipman Hall Phone: 732.932.9763 ext. 120 Research Interest: Protein folding, subunit assembly, ligand interactions, hydration, dioxins and related compounds
	Janet C. Onishi Visiting Assistant Research Professor (Häggblom Lab) Email:onishi@aesop.rutgers.edu Office: Lipman Hall Phone: 732.932.9763 Research Interest: Gut microbiology, Natural Products
	George Pieczenik, Ph.D Associate Professor Email: piecze@rci.rutgers.edu Office:217 Lipman Hall Phone: 732.932.9763 ext. 217 Research Interest: Theory of genotypic selection, nucleotide sequence analysis, combinatorial phage display, identification and characterization of non-pathogenic strains of HIV
	Theo vanEs, Ph.D Professor Email: vanes@aesop.rutgers.edu Office:131 Lipman Hall Phone: 732.932.9763 ext. 131 Research Interest: Carbohydrate chemistry and biochemistry
	Costantino Vetriani, Ph.D Associate Professor, Undergraduate Program Director - Microbiology Email: vetriani@imcs.rutgers.edu Office: Marine Science Bldg. Phone: 732.932.6555 ext. 373 Research Interest:Deep-Sea microbiology, extremophiles, molecular ecology, adaptations to extreme environments - Exciting Science: Life at the Extremes – Microbiology of deep-sea volcanoes
	William Ward, Ph.D Associate Professor Email: crebb@rci.rutgers.edu Office: 216 Lipman Hall Phone: 732.932.9763 ext. 216 Research Interest: Green fluroescent protein and applications of bioluminescence
	Lori White, Ph.D Associate Professor, Undergraduate Program Director - Biochemistry Email: lawhite@aesop.rutgers.edu Office:128 Lipman Hall Phone: 732.932.9763 ext. 128 Research Interest: Molecular mechanisms of xenobiotic-induced pathologies
	Ning Zhang, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Email: zhang@aesop.rutgers.edu Office:201 Foran Hall Phone: 732.932.8165 x 320 Research Interest: Population and evolutionary biology of fungi and molecular detection of fungal pathogens
	Gerben Zylstra, Ph.D. Professor II, Graduate Program Director - Microbial Biology Email: zylstra@aesop.rutgers.edu Office:322 Biotech Center, Foran Hall Phone: 732.932.8165 ext. 320 Research Interest: Molecular and biochemical basis for microbial aromatic hydrocarbon degradation
Emeriti Faculty
	Theodore Chase, Jr. Emeritus Email: chase_c@aesop.rutgers.edu Office: 117 Lipman Hall Phone: 732.932.9763 ext. 224
	Stanley Katz, Emeritus Email: sekatz@aesop.rutgers.edu Office: 117 Lipman Hall Phone: 732.932.9763 ext. 329
	Ron Poretz, Emeritus Email: poretz@aesop.rutgers.edu Office: 117 Lipman Hall Phone: 732.932.9763 ext. 329