Department of Infectious Diseases, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Isakson Center for Neurological Disease Research

Professor

Expertise

Infectious Diseases | Bacteriology | Microbiology | Microbiome

Biography

Education

  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, 1990
  • Ph.D., Genetics, University of Georgia, 1987
  • M.A., Microbiology, Southern Illinois University, 1981
  • B.A., Biological Sciences, Southern Illinois University, 1979

Teaching Experience

  • Professor, Infectious Diseases, University of Georgia (current)
  • Professor, Veterinary Microbiology, Iowa State University, 2023
  • Assistant Professor, Biology, College of William and Mary, 1993

Research Interests

  • Development of live biotherapeutic products to treat disease
  • Investigating the role of the microbiome in neurological processes
  • Emergence of bacterial pathobionts
  • Mechanisms of antimicrobial persistence

Publications

NCBI

going beyond the expected