Food Safety and Consumer Health

Study the close relationship between microbes and agricultural crops and food products, and how those microbes inhabit and contaminate food.

Plant Pathology and Microbiology

Explore the critical role that disease-causing microbes, including viruses, bacteria, fungi and nematodes play in limiting crop production.

Environmental Microbiology

Study how microbes and microbial products affect human health, the environment and industry.

Microbial Genomics and Biotechnology

Research microbial genes and genome organization, regulation, function and ecology and how they can be used to address human needs such as in the development and production of medications.

Medical Microbiology

Investigate the role of microbes in the human body and how they can both cause and prevent disease.