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Michael Thomas

Michael Thomas

Associate professor, bacteriology

Expert on developing new antibiotics using metabolic engineering of bacteria, and the identification of new antibiotics using nontraditional approaches

Katherine McMahon

Katherine McMahon

Associate professor, civil and environmental engineering, bacteriology

Expert in microbial ecology, limnology, water quality, wastewater treatment, environmental genomics, ecosystem microbiology

Douglas Weibel

Douglas Weibel

Assistant professor, biochemistry, biomedical engineering (affiliate)

Expert on biochemistry and biophysics of bacteria and other microbes

Daniel Schaefer

Daniel Schaefer

emeritus professor in the UW–Madison Department of Animal Sciences

Expert on beef cattle production systems, meat quality and fermentation in rumenon

Kathleen Glass

Kathleen Glass

Associate director, Food Research Institute

Expert on microbial food safety including refrigerated and shelf-stable foods

Andrew Bent

Andrew Bent

Professor, plant pathology; science adviser to dean of International Studies

Expert in plant molecular biology and biotechnology, especially in relation to agriculture

Timothy Paustian

Timothy Paustian

Teaching Professor, bacteriollogy

Expert on teaching sciences and the development and use of multimedia and collaborative technology in the classroom, AI and AI-detectors

Michael Graham

Michael Graham

Professor, chemical and biological engineering

Expert on flow phenomena, particularly at small scales, including microfluidic devices and swimming microorgranisms

Garret Suen

Garret Suen

Assistant professor, bacteriology

Expert in genomics, next-generation sequencing, bioinformatics, functional genomics, metagenomics, microbiology, rumen microbiology, systems biology, biofuels, microbial ecology, evolutionary ecology

Chris Hittinger

Chris Hittinger

Assistant professor, genetics

Expert on the evolution of yeast carbon metabolism, evolutionary genomics/genetics, molecular evolution, phylogenetics, population genetics, evolutionary systems biology

Barbara  Bendlin

Barbara Bendlin

Associate professor, medicine, geriatrics and gerontology

Expert on factors that contribute to or protect against the development of dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease