Molecular & Genome Biology of Microbes
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Faculty
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| Richard Burgess |
| Silvia Cavagnero |
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Michael Cox |
| Elizabeth Craig |
| Timothy Donohue |
| Marcin Filutowicz |
| Catherine Fox |
| Richard Gourse |
| James Keck |
| Patricia Kiley |
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Robert Landick (Focus Group Chair) |
Faculty
Secondary Affiliation
| Aseem Ansari |
| Paul D. Friesen |
| Audrey Gasch |
| Richard Gourse |
| Bruce Klein |
| Karen Wassarman |
| Douglas Weibel |
Microbial genome biology is a rapidly emerging field that couples genomics and proteomics with molecular, cellular, and structural biology to understand microbial organisms. Microbes offer unique advantages for graduate training because their smaller genomes and proteomes can be studied comprehensively, because they are amenable to high-power investigative methods, and because they fundamentally impact human health, agriculture, the economy, and the environment. Our group provides graduate student training in Molecular and Genome Biology of Microbes. Participating labs offer state-of-the-art training in research areas that focus on molecular, biochemical or structural approaches to study microbial transcription, regulatory RNAs, DNA replication, DNA recombination and DNA repair, transposition and other genome biology processes. The focus group provides research training in systems biology approaches to analyze the operation and interactions of microbial regulatory circuits (gene arrays, proteomics, gene network and pathway modeling, computational biology, etc.). UW-Madison is a world-renowned leader in molecular studies of microbes, and brings together researchers from many departments. (Bacteriology, Biochemistry, Biomolecular Chemistry, Genetics, and Oncology)
Our focus group organizes twice-monthly group meetings with an emphasis on graduate student presentations. The group is called "E. coli club" for historical reasons, but the focus in much broader.
Our focus group also hosts a leading international meeting on this subject at UW-Madison every other August: "Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phages" (www.wisc.edu/phage)
Our focus group organizes twice-monthly group meetings with an emphasis on graduate student presentations. The group is called "E. coli club" for historical reasons, but the focus in much broader.
Our focus group also hosts a leading international meeting on this subject at UW-Madison every other August: "Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phages" (www.wisc.edu/phage)