Billmyre, Blake
Blake Billmyre
Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical & Biomedical Sciences Department/Infectious Diseases Department
High throughput genetics to better understand evolution of fungal pathogens and drive antifungal drug discovery.
Mitchell, Aaron P.
Aaron P. Mitchell
Professor
Microbiology
We use genetic and genomic approaches to understand mechanisms of fungal pathogenesis and drug resistance.
Lin, Xiaorong
Xiaorong Lin
Professor
Microbiology; Plant Biology
Human fungal pathogens, sexual reproduction and development in fungal pathogenesis
Bensasson, Douda
Douda Bensasson
Associate Professor
Bioinformatics; Plant Biology
Genome bioinformatics, ecological and evolutionary genomics of yeast.
Starai, Vincent
Vincent Starai
Associate Professor
Infectious Diseases; Microbiology
Bacterial modulation of eukaryotic membrane dynamics for intracellular survival;
SNARE-dependent membrane fusion biochemistry.
Schmidt, Walter
Walter K. Schmidt Jr.
Professor
Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Scholar
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Neuroscience
Molecular cell biology and biochemistry of proteases associated with isoprenylated protein
maturation and amyloidogenic peptide degradation; cancer; Alzheimer’s disease.
Momany, Michelle
Michelle Momany
Professor
Plant Biology
Cellular and molecular biology of polar growth in fungi.
Lewis, Zachary
Zachary Lewis
Associate Professor
Microbiology
Chromatin structure and function; Epigenetics; Eukaryotic genome stability; Histone H1.
Khang, Chang Hyun
Chang Hyun Khang
Associate Professor
Plant Biology
Mechanisms of disease and immunity in the rice blast system; Fungal effector proteins; Nutrient uptake in fungi.
Garfinkel, David
David Garfinkel
Professor
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Retrovirus-like transposons in budding yeast, control of transposition, restriction factors.