Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
The faculty and their research
Primary faculty
Carlos A. Casiano, PhD, University of California at Davis 1992, assistant professor. Cell biology, immunology; autoantibodies in autoimmunity and cell biology; mechanisms of cell death.Alan Escher, PhD, Cornell University 1992, assistant professor. Molecular biology; chaperonins, gene therapy.
Hansel M. Fletcher, PhD, Temple University 1990, assistant professor. Molecular genetics; bacterial pathogenesis and antibiotic resistance.
Istvan Fodor, PhD, USSR Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia) 1968; DSc, USSR Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia) 1985, professor. Molecular biology, virology; recombinant vaccines, gene therapy.
Daila S. Gridley, PhD, Loma Linda University 1978, professor. Immunology; radiation and immunotherapy, cytokines.
Sandra Hilliker, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1974; MBA, University of California at Riverside, 1990, instructor. Biotechnology; scientific communication.
Mark S. Johnson, PhD, University of Utah 1984, associate research professor. Microbial biochemistry; intracellular signaling in microorganisms.
James D. Kettering, PhD, Loma Linda University 1974, professor, assistant chair, director of graduate program in microbiology. Virology; tumor immunology; medical bacteriology.
Benjamin H. S. Lau, MD, PhD, PhD, University of Kentucky 1966; MD, Loma Linda University SM 1980, professor. Cellular and tumor immunology, medical bacteriology, mycology; immune-modulating and anticarcinogenic effects of phytochemicals.
John E. Lewis, PhD, Loma Linda University GS 1969, professor. Immunology, medical microbiology; cell-mediated immunity, cytokines, monoclonal antibodies for bacterial identification.
Michael B. Lilly, MD, Loma Linda University 1975, professor. Role of hematopoietic growth factors and signal transduction pathways in human leukemias; Pim1 kinase as a survival factor.
Giuseppe A. Molinaro, MD, Naples University (Italy) 1960, associate research professor. Immunology; T-lymphocyte responses.
Junichi Ryu, PhD, Tokyo Metropolitan University (Japan) 1978, associate professor. Molecular genetics; gene regulation, restriction-modification enzymes of enteric bacteria.
Barry L. Taylor, PhD, Case Western Reserve University 1973, professor and vice chancellor for research affairs. Microbial physiology; signal transduction in bacterial chemotaxis, oxygen chemoreceptors.
Igor B. Zhulin, PhD, St. Petersburg State University (Russia) 1988, assistant professor. Bioinformatics and genomics; redox-sensing in bacteria.
Anthony J. Zuccarelli, PhD, California Institute of Technology 1974, professor. Molecular genetics; bacterial genomic polymorphism, bacterial plasmids, DNA typing of clinical microorganisms.
Associated faculty
Leonard R. Bullas, PhD, Montana State University 1963, emeritus professor. Bacterial and phage genetics, molecular biology; genetics of restriction and modification.
Lora Green, PhD, University of California at Riverside 1987, associate professor of microbiology and medicine. Cell and molecular biology; immunology; autoimmune diseases and cancer. Primary affiliation: Jerry L. Pettis Memorial Veterans Medical Center, Loma Linda..
George T. Javor, PhD, Columbia University 1967, professor of microbiology and biochemistry. Bacterial physiology. Primary affiliation: department of biochemistry, LLU.
William H. R. Langridge, PhD, University of Massachusetts 1973, professor of microbiology and biochemistry. Plant molecular genetics; autoimmunity, plant-based vaccines, gene therapy, human nutrition, recombinant insect virus systems. Primary affiliation: department of biochemistry, LLU.
Sandra L. Nehlsen-Cannarella, PhD, National Institute for Medical Research (London, U.K.) 1971, professor of pathology, surgery, and microbiology. Cell and molecular immunology; transplantation immunology, maternal-fetal and developmental immunology. Primary affiliation: LLUMC.
John J. Rossi, PhD, University of Connecticut 1976, professor of microbiology and biochemistry. Molecular biology; gene expression, ribosomes. Primary affiliation: Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope.
Donna D. Strong, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles 1977, associate professor of microbiology, biochemistry, and medicine. Molecular biology and recombinant DNA. Primary affiliation: Jerry L. Pettis Memorial Veterans Medical Center, Loma Linda.
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