Directory

Team Member

Area of Expertise

Contact Information

Tsvetan Bachvaroff

Associate Research Professor

Institute of Marine & Environmental Technology

DNA sequence analysis; culture independent methods, such as single cell PCR, sequencing, and sequence analysis; establishing dinoflagellate cultures.

bachvarofft@umces.edu

410-234-8849

Feng Chen

Professor

Institute of Marine & Environmental Technology

Marine microbial ecology, microbial oceanography and biogeography, microbial diversity, genomics, functional genomics, and clean green biotechnology.

chenf@umces.edu

410-234-8866

J. Sook Chung

Professor

Institute of Marine & Environmental Technology

Neuroendocrine regulation on crustacean physiology of molting, growth, reproduction, sex differentiation, and stress responses.

chung@umces.edu

410-234-8841

Russell Hill

Executive Director and Professor

Institute of Marine & Environmental Technology

Symbiosis between bacteria & marine invertebrates, especially sponges; molecular and culture-based studies of symbiotic bacteria, microalgae, and biofuels.

hill@umces.edu

410-234-8802

Rosemary Jagus

Professor

Institute of Marine & Environmental Technology

Translational control of gene expression, regulation of gene activity in early development, host defense against virus infection and viral countermeasures.

jagus@umces.edu

410-234-8822

Yantao Li

Associate Professor

Institute of Marine & Environmental Technology

Micoalgal molecular biology and lipid biochemistry, biotechnology and environmental bioremediation, metabolic engineering for biofuels and bioproducts

yantao@umces.edu

410-234-8833