Microbes play a critical role in health, the environment, agriculture, biotechnology, and basic science. New technologies in high throughput sequencing and imaging are revolutionizing the field, pushing the frontiers of the discipline in directions that would have been inconceivable even a few years ago. The vast diversity of microbes inhabiting the planet remains almost entirely unexplored, promising an exciting future for this field. Microbiology research in the Biology Department includes programs on all three domains of life and spans ecology, evolution, pathogenesis, systems biology, physiology, cell biology, and genetics.

Katie Barott
Assistant Professor of Biology
Leidy 327A

Dustin Brisson
Professor of Biology Director - Evolution and Ecology of Disease Systems Laboratory, Director - Biology Master's Program
dbrisson@sas.upenn.edu215-746-1731

Kimberly Gallagher
Professor of Biology Associate Chair of Biology
gallagkl@sas.upenn.edu215-746-3605

Mark Goulian
Charles and William L. Day Distinguished Professor in the Natural Sciences
goulian@sas.upenn.edu215-573-6991

David S. Roos
E. Otis Kendall Professor of Biology
droos@sas.upenn.edu215-898-2118
304J Lynch Laboratory