Faculty

Matt Anderson

Credentials: Department of Medical Genetics

Position title: Gene families, Intraspecies variation, genome evolution, population dynamics, microbiomes

David Andes

Credentials: Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology

Position title: General Infectious Diseases, Transplant Infectious Diseases, Antimicrobial Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics

Jean-Michel Ané

Credentials: Department of Bacteriology and Department of Plant and Agroecosystem Sciences

Position title: Symbiotic associations between plants and microbes

David Blehert

Credentials: U.S. Geological Survey- National Wildlife Health Center

Daniel Cullen

Credentials: USDA Forest Products Laboratory

Audrey Gasch

Credentials: Department of Genetics

Position title: Elucidating the role, regulation, and evolution of eukaryotic stress responses

Amanda Gevens

Credentials: Department of Plant Pathology

Position title: The ecology of fungus and fungus-like plant pathogens for enhanced and integrated disease management.

Emile Gluck-Thaler

Credentials: Department of Plant Pathology

Position title: Evolution of Fungal Ecology

Dennis Halterman

Credentials: USDA/ARS Vegetable Crops Research Unit

Position title: Plant fungal diseases

Chris Hittinger

Credentials: Department of Genetics

Position title: Evolution of carbon-responsive gene networks, yeast biodiversity, industrial brewing and biofuel applications

Leslie Holland

Credentials: Department of Plant Pathology

Position title: diagnosis, biology, and management of pathogens affecting fruit production in Wisconsin

Christina Hull

Credentials: Department of Biomolecular Chemistry and Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology

Position title: Human fungal pathogen development & pathogenesis

Michelle Jusino

Credentials: USDA Northern Research Station

Mehdi Kabbage

Credentials: Department of Plant Pathology

Position title: Plant fungal interactions; stress tolerance, programmed cell death

Nancy Keller

Credentials: Department of Plant Pathology and Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology

Position title: Fungal natural products and impacts in ecology, drug discovery and pathogenesis

Bruce Klein

Credentials: Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology

Position title: Molecular medical mycology with two broad areas of focus: fungal pathogenesis and immunology.

Paul Koch

Credentials: Department of Plant Pathology

Position title: Impacts of pesticides on microbial communities in urban and suburban landscapes; Rust diseases; Snow Molds

Jeffrey Lorch

Credentials: National Wildlife Health Center and Pathobiological Department

Position title: Investigating and diagnosing wildlife mortality events and studying emerging wildlife diseases

Megan McClean

Credentials: Department of Biomedical Engineering

Position title: Understanding and engineering biological signal processing

Jeniel Nett

Credentials: Department of Medicine and Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology

Position title: Host-pathogen interactions for Candida auris, Candida biofilm immunology

Anne Pringle

Credentials: Department of Botany and Department of Bacteriology

Position title: evolution, biodiversity and conservation of fungi

Doug Rouse

Credentials: Department of Plant Pathology

Position title: Epidemiology and ecology of fungal plant diseases

Trey Sato

Credentials: Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center

Nathaniel Sharp

Credentials: Department of Genetics

Position title: Mutation, Evolution, Genome Architecture, Genetic Variation, Sexual Selection

Damon Smith

Credentials: Department of Plant Pathology

Position title: The biology, epidemiology, and management of field crop diseases

Thea Whitman

Credentials: Department of Soil Science

Position title: Soil ecology, soil microbiology, terrestrial carbon biogeochemistry, climate change

Jon Woods

Credentials: Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology

Position title: Fungal pathogenesis, Histoplasma capsulatum

Jae-Hyuk Yu

Credentials: Department of Bacteriology and Department of Genetics

Position title: Fungi and Mycotoxins