PMGG

Outstanding Faculty in Microbial Genetics and Genomics

Texas A&M has a strong faculty in the Life Sciences distributed over several Colleges and many Departments on the College Station campus. Within this community of biologists, the microbiology community is especially strong. Our strength in microbiology is nationally recognized. TAMU is the only campus with two Editors of the Journal of Bacteriology, and a member of the J. Bact. Editorial Board. One of our J. Bact Editors, Ry Young, holds an NIH Merit Award and is the current president of Division M (Bacteriophage) of the American Society for Microbiology. Debby Siegele, who is on the Editorial Board, has just been asked to be president-elect of Division H (Genetics and Molecular Biology, one of the largest divisions in ASM). Dan Ebbole is part of a steering committee for the Neurospora community, reflecting TAMU's strength in the biology of filamentous fungi.

The opinions of TAMU faculty are also sought for funding decisions related to microbiology and other life sciences (Alas, we don't get to decide how much money there will be). Our other J. Bact Editor is Susan Golden. Susan is a frequent reviewer of NSF grants, and has served on the national committee for the Federal Demonstration Project (a project to streamline how grant money gets spent by institutions and investigators. Jim Hu is a permanent member of the NIH MBC-2 (Microbial Genetics and Physiology) study section, and Jim Sacchettini is a permanent member on the Biochemistry Study Section. Don Pettigrew recently finished a term as a regular reviewer at NSF and just returned from a review of NSF itself. Other PMGG faculty are regularly asked to serve as ad hoc reviewers on grant panels.

Students training with in the PMGG will not be isolated in a group of microbiologists. Our program is strengthened by interactions with the larger scientific community at TAMU and around the world. Members of our group are involved in many intramural and extramural collaborations. Although TAMU is one of the biggest universities in the nation, it has a collegial atmosphere that unifies programs all over the campus. In addition to informal interactions, PMGG members are involved in the Life Sciences Task Force (Terry Thomas and Jim Sacchettini are the co-chairs of the LSTF), the Intercollegiate Faculty of Genetics, the Biological Clocks Training Program, and the Chemistry Biology Interface Training Program. Within Texas, we have permanent members of the organizing committees of the Lost Pines Molecular Biology Conference and the Texas Protein Folders Meeting.

This program is funded through a grant from the Life Sciences Task Force at Texas A&M. Admission to Texas A&M University and any of its sponsored programs is open to qualified individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, or educationally unrelated handicaps. Texas A&M University is an equal opportunity/ affirmative action employer. Last modified: May 17 2005 02:19 AM

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Outstanding Faculty in Microbial Genetics and Genomics