PMB Faculty

	Jannell Bazurto Assistant Professor Plant and Microbial Biology	612-624-5068 jbazurto@umn.edu 1445 Gortner Avenue St. Paul, MN 55108 United States
	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.	dbond@umn.edu
	Yaniv Brandvain Associate Professor Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, Plant and Microbial Biology	612-624-4375 ybrandva@umn.edu 1500 Gortner Avenue St. Paul, MN 55108 United States
	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.	612-301-7158 cjcarter@umn.edu 1445 Gortner Avenue St. Paul, MN 55108 United States
	Kyle Costa Adjunct Professor Plant and Microbial Biology	kcosta@umn.edu
	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.	612-624-2244 sdewalt@umn.edu 123 Snyder Hall 1475 Gortner Avenue Saint Paul, MN 55108 United States
	Kathryn Fixen Assistant Professor Plant and Microbial Biology	612-625-1998 kfixen@umn.edu 750 Biological Sciences St. Paul, MN 55108 United States
	Sue Gibson Professor Plant and Microbial Biology	612-624-7408 gibso043@umn.edu 1500 Gortner Avenue St. Paul, MN 55108 United States
	Jeffrey Gralnick Associate Dean for Faculty, Professor Plant and Microbial Biology Genetics, physiology and synthetic biology of environmental, metal-loving microbes	612-626-6496 gralnick@umn.edu 1479 Gortner Avenue St. Paul, MN 55108 United States
	William Gray Professor Plant and Microbial Biology	612-624-3042 grayx051@umn.edu
	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.	612-624-5145 greenham@umn.edu 1445 Gortner Avenue St. Paul, MN 55108 United States
	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.	612-625-6372 trinityh@umn.edu
	Fumiaki Katagiri Professor Plant and Microbial Biology Systems biology and evolution of the plant immune signaling network	(612) 624-5195 katagiri@umn.edu 1500 Gortner Avenue St. Paul, MN 55108 United States
	Peter Kennedy Professor Plant and Microbial Biology Our lab studies links between microbial community structure and ecosystem functioning in a variety of experimental settings.	612-624-8519 kennedyp@umn.edu 1479 Gortner Avenue St. Paul, MN 55108 United States
	David Moeller Professor Plant and Microbial Biology	612-624-1037 moeller@umn.edu 1445 Gortner Avenue St. Paul, MN 55108 United States
	Min Ni Professor Plant and Microbial Biology Arabidopsis de-etiolation, seed development, genetics, epigenetics, and genomics.	612-625-3702 nixxx008@umn.edu 1445 Gortner Avenue St. Paul, MN 55108 United States
	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.	(612) 301-2655 tniehaus@umn.edu 778 BioSci Saint Paul, MN 55108 United States
	Neil E. Olszewski Professor Emeritus Plant and Microbial Biology Plant physiology	612-625-3129 neil@umn.edu 1445 Gortner Avenue St. Paul, MN 55108 United States
	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.	612-625-5721 powers@umn.edu 1987 Upper Buford Circle St. Paul, MN 55108 United States
	Ivan Radin Assistant Professor Plant and Microbial Biology	612-624-7812 iradin@umn.edu 610 Biological Sciences 1445 Gortner Avenue St. Paul, MN 55108 United States
	Jonathan Schilling Professor Itasca Biological Station and Laboratories, Plant and Microbial Biology	schillin@umn.edu 1445 Gortner Ave Saint Paul, MN 55108 United States
	Nathan M. Springer Adjunct Faculty Member Plant and Microbial Biology	612-624-6241 springer@umn.edu 1445 Gortner Avenue St. Paul, MN 55108 United States
	Peter Tiffin Professor Plant and Microbial Biology Evolutionary genomics in plants and microbes, legume-rhizobia symbiosis, evolution in urban environments	612-624-7406 ptiffin@umn.edu 1445 Gortner Avenue St. Paul, MN 55108 United States
	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.	612-625-4763 jward@umn.edu 1445 Gortner Avenue St. Paul, MN 55108 United States
	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.	612-624-3461 gweiblen@umn.edu 1445 Gortner Avenue St. Paul, MN 55108 United States
	Ya Yang Associate Professor, Curator - University of Minnesota Herbarium Plant and Microbial Biology Plant systematics, Phylogenetics, and Evolutionary genomics	612-625-6292 yangya@umn.edu 1445 Gortner Avenue St. Paul, MN 55108 United States
	Feng Zhang Assistant Professor Plant and Microbial Biology Genome engineering and synthetic biology for crop improvement	612-624-6417 zhangumn@umn.edu 1500 Gortner Avenue St. Paul, MN 55108 United States