Microbiology

Microbiology website

Heidi Goodrich-Blair, Head
Alison Buchan, Associate Head
Erik Zinser, Director of Graduate Studies

Professors
Buchan, A., PhD – Georgia
Goodrich-Blair, H., PhD – Albany
Hazen, T.C., PhD – Wake Forest
Loeffler, F.E., PhD – Germany
Reynolds, T.B., PhD – Vanderbilt
Wilhelm, S.W., PhD – Western Ontario (Canada)

Associate Professors
Fozo, E.M., PhD – Rochester
Mikucki, J.A., PhD – Montana State
Sparer, T.E., PhD – Emory
Su, C., PhD – Penn State
Zinser, E.R., PhD – Harvard

Assistant Professors
Burcham, L.R., PhD – Mississippi State
Burcham, Z.M., PhD – Mississippi State
Clasen, S.J., PhD – Johns Hopkins
Ibberson, C.B., PhD – Iowa
Monteith, A.J., PhD – North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
Parker, B.J., PhD – Emory
Talmy, D., PhD – Essex

Research Faculty
Chandler, J.W., PhD – Tennessee
Martin, R.M., PhD – Tennessee
McAlvin, C.B., PhD – Tennessee
Vishnivetskaya, T.A., PhD – Russian Academy of Sciences

Joint Faculty
Bruce, B., PhD – Wisconsin
DeBruyn, J., PhD – Tennessee
Eda, S., PhD – Tokyo (Japan)
Donohoe, D., PhD – Louisiana State
Hettich, R.L., PhD – Purdue
Jacobson, D., PhD – Stellenbosch (South Africa)
Podar, M., PhD – Texas Southwestern Medical Center (Dallas)
Radosevich, M., PhD – Ohio
Schadt, C., PhD – Colorado

Lecturers
Dylewski, H.C., PhD – Tennessee
LeCleir, G.R., PhD – Georgia
Pyle, J., PhD – Tennessee

Adjunct Faculty
Briggs, L., MPH – Tennessee
 

The Department of Microbiology offers both the Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees and graduate certificates. Students have the option of selecting from a variety of graduate research programs. For more information visit the department webpage. 

Intercollegiate Graduate Statistics and Data Science Minor

The Department of Microbiology participates in an intercollegiate graduate program designed to give graduate students an opportunity to earn a minor in statistics simultaneously with a master’s or doctoral degree in another department. A minor in statistics consists of 9 hours of statistics courses. See Department of Business Analytics and Statistics  for full program description.