PMB Faculty
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Jannell Bazurto Assistant Professor Plant and Microbial Biology |
1445 Gortner Avenue |
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Daniel Bond Professor Plant and Microbial Biology Studying how environmental bacteria make themselves and their world conductive, and how we can harness them in biotechnology or bioelectronics. |
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Yaniv Brandvain Associate Professor Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, Plant and Microbial Biology |
1500 Gortner Avenue |
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Clay Carter Professor Plant and Microbial Biology Plant biochemistry and cell biology with a focus on the molecular basis of plant-pollinator and plant-microbe interactions. |
1445 Gortner Avenue |
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Kyle Costa Adjunct Professor Plant and Microbial Biology |
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Saara DeWalt Dean, Russell M. and Elizabeth M. Bennett Chair in Excellence in Biological Sciences Dean's Office, Plant and Microbial Biology I am interested in determinants of abundance, community composition, and diversity of trees and lianas in temperate and tropical forests. |
123 Snyder Hall |
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Kathryn Fixen Associate Professor Plant and Microbial Biology |
750 Biological Sciences |
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Sue Gibson Professor Plant and Microbial Biology |
1500 Gortner Avenue |
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Jeffrey Gralnick Associate Dean for Faculty, Interim Associate Dean for Research, Distinguished McKnight University Professor Plant and Microbial Biology Genetics, physiology and synthetic biology of environmental, metal-loving microbes |
1479 Gortner Avenue |
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William Gray Professor Plant and Microbial Biology |
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Kathleen Greenham Assistant Professor Plant and Microbial Biology Circadian regulation of plant growth and abiotic stress response; influence of single-cell circadian networks on organ function. |
1445 Gortner Avenue |
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Trinity Hamilton Associate Professor Plant and Microbial Biology Using modern microbial ecosystems to unlock Earth’s past, present, and future. Evolution and ecology of photosynthesis in extreme environments. |
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Peter Kennedy Professor Plant and Microbial Biology Our lab studies links between microbial community structure and ecosystem functioning in a variety of experimental settings. |
1479 Gortner Avenue |
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David Moeller Professor Plant and Microbial Biology |
1445 Gortner Avenue |
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Min Ni Professor Plant and Microbial Biology Arabidopsis de-etiolation, seed development, genetics, epigenetics, and genomics. |
1445 Gortner Avenue |
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Thomas Niehaus Assistant Professor Plant and Microbial Biology Studying metabolic biochemistry in plant and microbial organisms; focused on metabolite damage and repair associated with the TCA cycle. |
778 BioSci |
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Neil E. Olszewski Professor Emeritus Plant and Microbial Biology Plant physiology |
1445 Gortner Avenue |
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Jennifer Powers Professor Plant and Microbial Biology Our lab studies ecosystem processes and community dynamics in seasonally dry tropical forests from microbial to biome-wide scales. |
1987 Upper Buford Circle |
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Ivan Radin Assistant Professor Plant and Microbial Biology |
610 Biological Sciences |
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Jonathan Schilling Professor Itasca Biological Station and Laboratories, Plant and Microbial Biology |
1445 Gortner Ave |
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Nathan M. Springer Adjunct Faculty Member Plant and Microbial Biology |
1445 Gortner Avenue |
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Peter Tiffin Professor Plant and Microbial Biology Evolutionary genomics in plants and microbes, legume-rhizobia symbiosis, evolution in urban environments |
1445 Gortner Avenue |
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John Ward Interim Department Head; Professor Plant and Microbial Biology We study membrane proteins that transport nutrients or metabolites across the membrane. We use electrophysiology to measure transport activity. |
1445 Gortner Avenue |
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George Weiblen Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Science Director and Curator of Plants, Bell Museum Plant and Microbial Biology Botany, genetics, phylogenetics, taxonomy, ecology & natural history of figs, cannabis, Minnesota flora and New Guinea flora. |
1445 Gortner Avenue |
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Ya Yang Associate Professor, Curator - University of Minnesota Herbarium Plant and Microbial Biology Plant systematics, Phylogenetics, and Evolutionary genomics |
1445 Gortner Avenue |
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Feng Zhang Associate Professor Plant and Microbial Biology Genome engineering and synthetic biology for crop improvement |
1500 Gortner Avenue |