Directory

Tsvetan Bachvaroff

Research Associate Professor
Bachvaroff Laboratory
  • DNA sequence analysis from data collection, assembly, annotation and phylogeny
  • Culture independent methods such as single cell PCR

Contact Information

Office Room:
3046
410-234-8849

Som Chatterjee

Assistant Professor
Chatterjee Laboratory

Our laboratory is interested in understanding the fundamental biological principles that lead to Staphylococcus aureus infections, an impo

Contact Information

Office Room:
5050
410-234-8890

Feng Chen

Professor
Chen Laboratory
  • Marine viruses: isolation, physiology, biogeography, genomics and metagenomics of viruses in aquatic environments
  • Phage-host inter

Contact Information

Office Room:
4047
410-234-8866

J. Sook Chung

Professor
Chung Laboratory
  • Neuroendocrine regulation on crustacean physiology of molting, growth, reproduction, sex differentiation and stress responses

Contact Information

Office Room:
4044
410-234-8841

Shiladitya DasSarma

Professor
DasSarma Laboratory
  • Post-genomics and biotechnology of salt-loving, radiation-tolerant, and cold-adapted extremophiles
  • Production of virus-like vaccin

Contact Information

Office Room:
5047
410-234-8847

Helen Dooley

Associate Professor
Dooley Laboratory
  • Comparative immunology focused on cartilaginous fish
  • Development of new technologies/therapies to understand, diagnose, and treat human and animal disease

Contact Information

Office Room:
4043
410-234-8837

Shaojun "Jim" Du

Professor
Du Laboratory
  • Developmental biology, muscle biology, and genetics
  • Genetic regulation of muscle and bone development
  • Zebrafish as a mod

Contact Information

Office Room:
3039
410-234-8854

Russell Hill

Professor and Executive Director
  • Diversity and roles of microbial symbionts associated with marine invertebrates, in particular sponges
  • Marine microbes, including

Contact Information

Office Room:
5083
410-234-8802

Rosemary Jagus

Professor
Jagus Laboratory
  • Translational control of gene expression
  • Regulation of gene activity during early development
  • Host defense against virus

Contact Information

Office Room:
3037
410-234-8822

Yantao Li

Associate Professor
Li Laboratory
  • Micoalgal molecular biology and lipid biochemistry
  • Metabolic engineering for biofuels and bioproducts
  • Microalgal biotech

Contact Information

Office Room:
5051
410-234-8833

Allen Place

Professor
BAS Lab
CAS Lab
Place Laboratory
  • Elucidation of the molecular mechanisms that permit organisms to adapt to unique diets, environments, and interactions (symbiosis)

Contact Information

Office Room:
3044
410-234-8828

Frank Robb

Professor
Robb Laboratory
  • Mechanisms of heat tolerance in hypothermophiles
  • Heat shock proteins, including their use to improve high-temperature industrial o

Contact Information

Office Room:
5041
410-234-8870

Keiko Saito

Research Assistant Professor
ARC
Saito Laboratory
  • Aquatic microbial ecology and aquacultural microbiology
  • Anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing bacteria (anammox) and ammonia-oxidizing arch

Contact Information

Office Room:
5043
410-234-8820

Eric Schott

Associate Research Professor
Schott Laboratory
  • Health and disease of aquatic organisms
  • Use of molecular methods to discover and monitor marine pathogens, especially viruses of i

Contact Information

Office Room:
4039
410-234-8881

Harold Schreier

Professor
Schreier Laboratory
  • Nitrogen and sulfur cycles of marine recirculating aquaculture systems
  • Nitrogen fixation in the gut of a wood-eating catfish

Contact Information

Office Room:
5042
410-234-8874

Kevin Sowers

Associate Director and Professor
Sowers Laboratory
  • Biology of methanogenic archaea
  • Anaerobic conversion of organic wastes to biomethane
  • Microbial reductive dehalogenation

Contact Information

Office Room:
5045
410-234-8878

Allison Tracy

Assistant Professor
Tracy Laboratory
  • Ecology and evolution of infectious marine diseases
  • The microbiome in health and disease
  • Habitat-forming species

Contact Information

Office Room:
4046
410-234-8834

Vikram Vakharia

Professor
Vakharia Laboratory
  • Viral pathogenesis of fish rhabdoviruses
  • Development of novel vaccines for economically important fish pathogens

My

Contact Information

Office Room:
5049
410-234-8880

Gerardo Vasta

Professor
Vasta Laboratory
  • Molecular, biochemical, structural, and functional aspects of protein-carbohydrate interactions relevant to immunity and early development

Contact Information

Office Room:
3048
410-234-8826

Ten-Tsao Wong

Associate Professor
ARC
Wong Laboratory
  • Molecular, cellular and applied aspects of fish germ cell biology, reproductive physiology and vaccine development

Contact Information

Office Room:
5044
410-234-8876

Nilli Zmora

Associate Research Professor
Zohar Laboratory

My research focus is manipulating reproduction in fish, mainly to support Aquaculture.

Contact Information

Office Room:
5040
410-234-8838

Yonathan Zohar

Professor and Chair, UMBC Dept. of Marine Biotechnology, Director of ARC
ARC
Zohar Laboratory
  • Fish reproductive physiology and molecular endocrinology
  • Broodstock management and hatchery technologies
  • Biotechnology for sustainable aquaculture
  • Environmentally responsible recirculating marine aquaculture

Contact Information

Office Room:
3041
410-234-8803