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About the Department
The Department of Microbiology in the College of Biological Sciences at
UC Davis has a long and distinguished history, which began in 1952 when
the Department of Bacteriology was formed. The Department is home to a
diverse faculty whose research reflects the interdisciplinary nature
of microbiology. Current faculty members utilize molecular genetics
to study the biology of individual microbes and also use microbial and
non-microbial models for the study of specific cellular processes, including
recombination, stress responses, aging, cancer, DNA repair, and adaptive
mutation. Research on various aspects of microbial development, host-microbe
interactions, microbial metabolism, gene regulation and genomics are
ongoing in a diverse range of bacteria and eukaryotic microbes.
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Contact Information
Department of Microbiology
University of California
One Shields Ave
Davis, CA 95616
Phone - (530) 752-2626
Fax - (530) 752-9014
Doug Nelson (Chair)
266 Briggs Hall
(530) 752-6183
Marina Rumiansev (MSO)
354 Briggs Hall
(530) 752-7467
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Departmental News
Recent Publications
- Li, H., A. Granat, V. Stewart, and J. Gillespie. 2008. RpoS, H-NS, and DsrA influence EHEC hemolysin operon (ehxCABD) transcription in Escherichia coli O157:H7 strain EDL933. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 285:257-262.
- Wrande M, Roth JR, Hughes D. (2008) Accumulation of mutants in "aging" bacterial colonies is due to growth under selection, not stress-induced mutagenesis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 105:11863–11868
- K.-S. Ju and R.E. Parales. (2009). Application of nitroarene dioxygenases in the design of novel strains that degrade chloronitrobenzenes. Microbial Biotechnol. (In press)
- Ehmsen, K.T. and Heyer, W.-D. (2008) Biochemistry of meiotic recombination. In: Recombination and Meiosis. Eds. R. Egel and D.-H. Lankenau. Springer-Verlag Berlin-Heidelberg, pp. 91-164.
- Li, X. and Heyer, W.-D. (2008) Rad54 controls access to the invading 3'OH end after Rad51-mediated DNA strand invasion in homologous recombination in S. cerevisiae. Nucleic Acids Res. (in press)
- Zhang, X.-P., Galkin, V.E., Yu, X., Egelman, E., and Heyer, W.-D. (2008) Loop 2 of S. cerevisiae Rad51 regulates filament formation and ATPaseactivity. Nucleic Acids Res. (in press)
- Nimonkar, A.V., Özsoy, A.Z., Genschel, J., Modrich, P., and Kowalczykowski ,S.C. (2008). Human Exonuclease 1 and BLM Helicase Interact to Resect DNA and Initiate DNA Repair. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 105, 16906-16911
- Dillingham, M.S. and Kowalczykowski, S.C. (2008). RecBCD enzyme and the repair of double-stranded DNA breaks. Microbiol. Mol. Biol. Rev., 72,642–671.
- Hilario, J., Amitani, I., Baskin, R.J., and Kowalczykowski, S.C. (2008). Direct imaging of human Rad51 nucleoprotein dynamics on individual DNA molecules. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (in press).
Recent Awards/Fellowships
- Jodi Planck (Kowalczykowski Lab) was awarded an NIH postdoctoral fellowship
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