Microbiology
Our people
Department Chair
- 3023 Cowley Hall
- mhoffman@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6984
Specialty areas:
Virology
Chair, Department of Microbiology
Academic Department Associate
The Department Microbiology has ten Microbiologists with full time commitments in the Microbiology curriculum and ten additional faculty with partial responsibilities in Microbiology instruction. The Microbiology faculty strive to ensure that students master the material necessary to become competent, practicing Microbiologists. Each is dedicated, helpful, and interested in the student's success and is committed to quality undergraduate education. Faculty are supported by three staff members that run the Microbiology prep room. The prep room staff, along with numerous student employees, ensure that each Microbiology laboratory is set up to allow students maximum hands-on experience in state-of-the-art techniques in Microbiology.
Microbiology Graduate Programs Director
- Associate Professor
- 3036 Cowley Hall
- pschweiger@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8254
Specialty areas:
Microbial Metabolism and Physiology
Synthetic and Molecular Biology
Applied Microbiology
Biotechnology
Contact me if you have any interest in undergraduate or graduate (MS) research in these fields!
Clinical Laboratory Science (CLS) Director
- Clinical Professor
- 3003 Cowley Hall
- mlazzari@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6479
Specialty areas:
Clinical Laboratory Science advising
- Teaching Professor
- 235A Cartwright Center
- mbarbknecht@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6968
Specialty areas:
Introductory Microbiology Education
- Associate Professor
- 3029 Cowley Hall
- bbratina@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6994
Specialty areas:
Microbial ecology, Aquatic microbiology, Biogeochemistry
- Assistant Professor
- 3030 Cowley Hall
- dbretl@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6969
Specialty areas:
Bacterial Genetics; Cellular Signaling
- Professor
- 3023 Cowley Hall
- mhoffman@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6984
Specialty areas:
Virology
Chair, Department of Microbiology
- Clinical Associate Professor
- 3013 Cowley Hall
- kjohnson4@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.5264
Specialty areas:
Dept. Equity Liaison
Clinical Laboratory Science - academic advising; course instruction
Laboratory Management.
- Clinical Professor
- 3003 Cowley Hall
- mlazzari@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6479
Specialty areas:
Clinical Laboratory Science advising
- Associate Professor
- 3011 Cowley Hall
- xli@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8255
Specialty areas:
My research interests lie in the area of food microbiology, with the focus on antibiotic resistance in food chain and inactivation of foodborne viruses. I am currently accepting M.S. and undergraduate research students.
- Professor
- 3027 Cowley Hall
- wschwan@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6980
Specialty areas:
Pathogenic bacteriology, drug discovery and preclinical testing, uropathogenic Escherichia coli virulence/gene regulation, Staphylococcus aureus virulence/gene regulation
- Associate Professor
- 3036 Cowley Hall
- pschweiger@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8254
Specialty areas:
Microbial Metabolism and Physiology
Synthetic and Molecular Biology
Applied Microbiology
Biotechnology
Contact me if you have any interest in undergraduate or graduate (MS) research in these fields!
- Assistant Professor
- Cowley Hall
- ztritz@uwlax.edu
Specialty areas:
Immunology
- Associate Professor
- 3033 Cowley Hall
- pwilker@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8248
Specialty areas:
Immunology, influenza viruses
- Lab Supervisor - Microbiology
- Prairie Springs Science Center
- cdavis3@uwlax.edu
- Laboratory Manager
- 4013 Prairie Springs Science Center
- josborn@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6466
- Laboratory Supervisor
- 4017 Prairie Springs Science Center
- rpolanowski@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6987
- Professor
- 3022 Cowley Hall
- scooper@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6983
Specialty areas:
Effects of hibernation on blood clotting in 13-lined ground squirrels.
- Associate Professor
- Prairie Springs Science Center
- agalbraith@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8246
Specialty areas:
Genetics, genetic disorders, genetics, molecular biology, genetics, baker's yeast, genetics, antimicrobials, genetics....
- Professor
- 2032 Cowley Hall
- gsandland@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6982
Specialty areas:
Host-parasite interactions, life-history evolution, disease ecology, invasive species dynamics, mathematical biology, toxicology
- Professor
- 2033 Cowley Hall
- estrauss@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8262
Specialty areas:
Limnology, Stream and River Ecology, Water Quality
| Adjunct and clinical faculty | |
| William A. Agger, M.D. Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation |
Mark Borchardt, Ph.D. Marshfield Medical Research Foundation |
| Mauri Saeger Brueggeman, M.Ed., MLS(ASCP)CM, Aspirus Wausau Hospital, Wausau, WI | Steven Callister, Ph.D. Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation |
| Jeffrey Christensen, Ph.D. Marshfield Medical Research Foundation |
Jay Ellingson, Ph.D. Food Safety & Quality Assurance, Kwik Trip, Inc. |
| Thomas Fritsche, M.D., Ph.D. Marshfield Medical Research Foundation |
Randall J. Hunt, Ph.D. US Geological Survey |
| Dean Jobe, M.S. Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation |
Todd Kowalski, M.D. Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation |
| Becky A. Lasee, Ph.D. Upper Midwest Environmental Science Center, USGS |
Steven D. Lovrich, Ph.D. Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation |
| Richard McLaughlin, Ph.D. Gateway Technical College |
Jennifer K. Meece, Ph.D. Marshfield Medical Research & Education Foundation |
| Derek Moore, M.P.H. Marshfield Medical Research & Education Foundation |
Mary S. Morris, M.D. Allergy Associates/Franciscan Skemp Mayo Healthcare |
| Darby Oldenburg, Ph.D. Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation |
Doug White, M.D., Ph.D Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation |
| Kurt Reed, M.D. Northwestern University |
Don Salter, Ph.D. Leuther Laboratories, LLC |
| Jeffrey S. Sartin, M.D. Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation |
Carl Shelly, D.Phil. Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation |
| Mary E. Stemper, M.S. M.T.(ASCP) Marshfield Laboratories |
Purnendu C. Vasavada, M.D. University of Wisconsin - River Falls |
| Catherine Wright, Ph.D. | |
| Emeritus faculty | |
| Robert Burns, Ph.D. | S.N. Rajagopal, Ph.D. |
| Diane Sewell, Ph.D. MLS(ASCP) CM |
Martin Venneman, Ph.D. |
| Michael Winfrey, Ph.D. | Marc Rott, Ph.D. |