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    FACULTY

  • Victoria Auerbuch Stone

  • Victoria Auerbuch Stone

    Professor

    Interests: Interactions between the pathogens and the innate immune system [More]
    Email
    Phone: (831) 459-3049
    Office: 244 BioMed

    • Manel Camps

  • Manel Camps

    Associate Professor

    Interests: Molecular mechanisms of reactive DNA methylation toxicity [More]
    Email
    Phone: (831) 459-5396
    Office: 434 PSB

    • Raquel Chamorro-Garcia

  • Raquel Chamorro-Garcia

    Assistant Professor

    Interests: Epigenetic mechanisms of genome-environment interactions and transgenerational inheritance in mouse models
    Email 
    Lab Website
    Phone: (831) 459-2445
    Office: 440 PSB

    • Jacqueline Kimmey

  • Jacqueline Kimmey

    Assistant Professor

    Interests: Host pathogen interactions and dynamics in Streptococcus pneumoniae infection 
    Phone: (831) 459-4095
    Office: 246 BioMed

    • Karen Ottemann

  • Karen Ottemann

    Professor

    Interests: Environmental responses of pathogenic bacteria [More]
    Email

    Lab website 
    Phone: (831) 459-3482
    Office: 238 BioMed

    • Michael Patnode

  • Assistant Professor

    Interests: Defining competitive relationships among members of the human gut microbiota as it relates to carbohydrate metabolism
    Email
    Phone: TBD
                          Office: 234 BioMed 

    • Chad Saltikov

  • Chad Saltikov

    Professor

    Interests: Microbial anaerobic respiratory processes that influence the biotransformation of pollutants in the environment [More]
    Email
    Phone: (831) 459-5520
                          Office: 438 PSB 

    • Donald Smith

  • Donald Smith

    Professor

    Interests: Neurotoxicity, cellular and organismal responses to environmental toxins [More]
    Email
    Phone: (831) 459-5041
    Office: 442 PSB

    • Fitnat Yildiz

  • Fitnat Yildiz

    Professor

    Interests:Understanding Processes Controlling Transmission of Bacterial Pathogens [More]
    Email 
    Phone: (831) 459-1588
                        Office: 240 BioMed

    • EMERITUS

  • A. Russell Flegal

  • A. Russell Flegal

    Professor Emeritus

    Interests: Anthropogenic perturbations of biogeochemical cycles, applications of isotopic tracers in anthropology and archaeology [More]
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    • ADJUNCT FACULTY

  • Paul Blum

  • Paul Blum

    Adjunct Professor

    Interests: Repurposing bacterial toxins for therapeutic uses and genetics of microbial extremophiles
    Email
    Phone: (831) 502-8760
    Office: PSB 448

     

    • Myra Finkelstein

  • Myra Finkelstein

    Adjunct Associate Professor

    Interests: Human impacts to wildlife with an emphasis on contaminant-induced effects. [More]
    [Email]
    Phone: (831) 459-1249
                           Office: 444 PSB

    • Ron Oremland

  • Ron Oremland

    Adjunct Professor

    Interests: Works in hypersaline/ alkaline soda lakes located in Western Nevada and Eastern California to study rich toxic elements [More]
    Email
To contact all the METX faculty, send an email to metxfaculty-group@ucsc.edu.