Skip to main content

Microbial
Symbiosis

Faculty & Staff

Cluster Initiative Faculty

  Name Department Research Interests Phone Email Address
Jean-Michel Ané Agronomy Genetics of plant-microbe symbioses (legume nodulation & arbuscular mycorrhization) (608) 262-6457 jane@wisc.edu
Cameron Currie Bacteriology Ecology and Evolution of Symbiotic Associations (608) 265-8034 currie@bact.wisc.edu
Katrina Forest Bacteriology Structural biology of host-microbe interactions (608) 265-3566 forest@bact.wisc.edu
Heidi Goodrich-Blair Bacteriology Nematode-bacterium mutualism, insect-bacterium pathogenesis (608) 265-4537 hgblair@bact.wisc.edu
Margaret McFall-Ngai Medical Microbiology & Immunology Squid-Vibrio mutualism (608) 262-2393 mjmcfallngai@wisc.edu
Ned Ruby Medical Microbiology & Imunology Squid-Vibrio mutualism (608) 262-5911 egruby@wisc.edu

Associated Faculty

  Name Department Research Interests Phone Email Address
Caitilyn Allen Plant Pathology and Women's Studies Ralstonia-plant interactions (608) 262-6457 cza@plantpath.wisc.edu
Teri Balser Soil Science and the Institute for Cross-College Biology Education Microbial community ecology (608) 262-0132 tcbalser@facstaff.wisc.edu
Amy Charkowski Plant Pathology Plant-microbe interactions (608) 262-7911 amyc@plantpath.wisc.edu
Jerald Ensign Bacteriology Nematode-bacterium symbiosis (608) 262-7877 jcensign@facstaff.wisc.edu
Linda Graham Botany Evolution of microbial associations that involve algae and bryophytes (608)262-2640 lkgraham@wisc.edu
Bill Hickey Soil Science Soil and subsurface microbial community processes (608) 262-9018 wjhickey@facstaff.wisc.edu
Trina McMahon Civil and Environmental Engineering Microbial ecology (608) 263-3137 tmcmahon@engr.wisc.edu
Donna Paulnock Medical Microbiology & Immunology Innate Immunity (608) 263-5857 paulnock@wisc.edu
Ken Raffa Entomology Plant-insect interactions (608) 262-1125 raffa@entomology.wisc.edu
Gary Splitter Animal Health and Biomedical Sciences Host-microbe interactions and pathogenesis (608) 262-1837 gas@ahabs.wisc.edu
Michael Thomas Bacteriology Microbial secondary metabolism (608) 263-9075 thomas@bact.wisc.edu
Jon Woods Medical Microbiology & Immunology Fungal-host interactions (608) 265-6292 jpwoods@wisc.edu

Staff

  Name Department Phone Email Address
Alicia Cramer Medical Microbiology & Immunology (608) 890-2101 amcramer@wisc.edu

University of Wisconsin-Madison
1550 Linden Drive
Rm 1336 Dept of Medmicro
Madison, WI 53706-1521

Phone: (608) 890-2101
Fax: (608) 262-8418

Email: info@microbes.wisc.edu