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Frances Arnold is a Professor of Chemical Engineering and Biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Dr. Arnold’s research focuses on evolutionary design of biological systems.
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Christine Biron is chair of the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at Brown University in Providence, and she focuses her research program on the mechanisms of the innate immune system – the body’s system of non-specific munitions for fighting off pathogens.
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Andrew Camilli is a Professor at Tufts University Medical School in Boston and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, where his research focuses on gene discovery and pathogenesis studies of Vibrio cholerae and Streptococcus pneumoniae.
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Raul Cano is the Unocal Chair for Environmental Studies and the Director of the Environmental Biotechnology Institute at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. During his time at Cal Poly, Dr. Cano's research has covered a wide array of topics, ranging from cultivating "fossilized" microbes to sequencing the genome of Lactobacillus acidophilus. He is the Chair of the AAM's Committee on Diversity.
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David Caron's work focuses on the physiology and ecology of protists, particularly protists from deep sea and hydrothermal vent environments. Dr. Caron is at the University of Southern California.
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Melanie Cushion holds down two jobs: she’s a research career scientist at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, and she’s also professor and associate chair for research in the department of internal medicine at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Dr. Cushion focuses her research on the fungus, Pneumocystis carinii, which is a harmless commensal for most people, but a deadly pathogen for others.
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Seth Darst is a professor of Molecular Biophysics at the Rockefeller University in New York City, where his research centers around determining the three-dimensional structure of RNA polymerase, the enzyme at the heart of a cell's ability to make protein from a set of DNA instructions. His work draws on electron microscopy and x-ray crystallography.
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Ed DeLong is a professor in the departments of Biological Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where his research focuses on exploring the structure and function of microbial communities using genomic approaches. His lab is particularly focused on the communities in a microbial habitat that covers over two thirds of our planet: the oceans. Dr. DeLong has been awarded ASM's Procter & Gamble Award in Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
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Katrina Edwards is a Professor in the University of Southern California’s Department of Biological Sciences, in the Division of Marine Environmental Biology, where her research program focuses on microbial life in marine sediments and microbial transformations in these habitats.
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Jay Keasling is the Hubbard Howe, Jr. Professor of Biochemical Engineering in the Departments of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Keasling's research focuses on synthetic biology, systems biology, and environmental biotechnology. He was elected to the AAM in 2007.
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Nancy Keller is a Professor of Bacteriology and Medical Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A mycologist, Dr. Keller works with Aspergillus- a genus of fungi that includes many mycotoxin-producing plant and human pathogens. Her research focuses on finding those aspects of Aspergillus species that make them effective as pathogens and as toxin factories.
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Laura Kiessling's research focuses on synthetic ligands and using synthesized ligands to explore biological recognition processes. Dr. Kiessling is at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
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David Knipe is the Higgins Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at Harvard Medical school. A virologist, Dr. Knipe focuses his research efforts on the herpes simplex virus 2 (HSV-2) – the virus we have to thank for genital herpes.
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Daniel Lew is a professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology and of Genetics at the Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina. His research program focuses on cell cycle control in yeast and how the cell cycle interacts with cell polarity.
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Anthony Maurelli is a professor of microbiology and immunology in the F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Maurelli's major research interest lies in the genetics of bacterial pathogenesis - the nuts and bolts of how bacteria infect humans and make us sick.
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J. Michael Miller is Associate Director of the National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-borne and Enteric Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Cesare Montecucco is a professor of General Pathology at the University of Padova, Italy (Padova is known as "Padua" in English). Dr. Montecucco's research explores the mechanisms of action of toxins - including anthrax toxin, botulinum toxin, and snake toxins.
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Dianne Newman is the Wilson Professor of Biology and Geobiology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research explores some of the unusual ways microbes use electron transfer to make a living and how ancient microbes, in their struggle to survive, forged the landscape we see today. Dr. Newman will be awarded the Eli Lilly Award at ASM's General Meeting in Boston this year.
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Carlos Pedrós-Alió is a professor at the Institut de Ciències del Mar (English speakers know it as the Marine Sciences Institute) in Barcelona, Spain. His research focuses on the ecology of microorganisms and on finding the underlying principles behind their distribution and behavior.
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Liise-anne Pirofski is Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases in the Department of Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
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Kathleen Postle is Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in the Eberly College of Science at Pennsylvania State University.
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Jung-Hye Roe is Chair of the School of Biological Sciences at Seoul National University (SNU) in Korea, where she has worked since completing her Ph.D. and postdoctoral appointments at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in the 1980s. Roe's research focuses on the mechanisms of genetic responses by which Streptomyces respond to oxidative stress.
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Connie Schmaljohn is Chief Scientist at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases in Fort Detrick, Maryland, where she develops vaccines for a number of viral diseases of interest to the military. She was elected to the AAM in 2007.
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Irwin Sherman is a Professor emeritus of Zoology at the University of California, Riverside. Prior to his retirement in 2006, Dr. Sherman led a research program that revolved around the malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, and served as Dean of the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences and as Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station.
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Gary Stacey is the Missouri Soybean Biotechnology Professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia and the Director of the University of Missouri’s Center for Sustainable Energy. His research focuses on the inter-kingdom signaling process between the nitrogen-fixing symbiont Bradyrhizobium and its host, the soybean plant.
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Ralph Tanner is a professor in the Department of Botany and Microbiology at the University of Oklahoma, Norman. His research centers around anaerobic bacteria, their diversity, and their phylogeny, and his most recent work has focused on developing bacterial catalysts for biofuels production.
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Elaine Tuomanen is the chair of the Department of Infectious Diseases and Director of the Children’s Infection Defense Center at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. In her research, Dr. Tuomanen explores the surface of Streptococcus pneumoniae, a major causative agent of meningitis.
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Theodore White is a full member at Seattle Biomed, where he’s been since 1996, and an affiliate professor at the University of Washington. His research program focuses on molecular mechanisms of drug resistance in fungi, particularly Candida albicans.
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Dr. Jonathan Zehr is a professor of Ocean Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz and an adjunct researcher at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI). Dr. Zehr’s research focuses on the nitrogen cycle in the oceans, with particular focus on nitrogen-fixing bacteria and archaea.
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