Biotechnology

Dr. Howard Ceri - Lectins in mucosal integrity; bacterial pathogenesis and inflammation, biofilms, prostatitis.

Dr. Peter Dunfield - Ecology and genomics of extremophilic bacteria; Environmental microbiology of the methane cycle

Dr. Peter Facchini - Biochemistry, molecular and cell biology of plant secondary metabolism; metabolic engineering in plants.

Dr. Robert Edwards - Integral membrane protein structure and light driven reactions of tryptophan.

Dr. Michael Hynes - Molecular biology of plant-microbe interactions; regulation of genes involved in Rhizobium symbiosis, Rhizobium plasmids, chemotaxis, microbial ecology.

Dr. Lashitew Gedamu -Molecular Biology of Leishmania: Functional studies and stage specific regulation of genes involved in Leishmania survival and pathogenesis. Evaluation of Leishmania Vaccine Candidate Genes.

Dr. Elmar Prenner - Membrane architecture, domains and lipid rafts, biophysical techniques, DNA labelling.

Dr. Dae-Kyun Ro - Biochemistry and molecular genetics of plant secondary metabolisms; Plant and microbial metabolic engineering for the production of pharmaceuticals, nutrient-enhanced crops, and renewable energy.

Dr. Raymond J. Turner - Metal resistance in Bacteria. Private molecular chaperones for the Tat-Translocase. Integral membrane protein structure and folding. Fluorescence spectroscopy.

Dr. Peter Tieleman - Computer simulations of biological membranes and membrane proteins.

Dr. Sui-Lam Wong - Gene expression, protein engineering and protein secretion in Bacillus subtilis.

Dr. Aalim Weljie - Metabolic consequences of cancer cell proliferation and metastasis; Toxicometabolomics; Endocrine disruption from environmental toxicants and impact on hormonally sensitive cancers; Metabolomics analysis using mass spectrometry and nuclear magnetic resonance; chemometrics.

Dr. Hans Vogel - NMR and spectroscopic studies of antimicrobial peptides, regulatory calcium binding proteins and bacterial iron-uptake proteins.