University Catalog 2024-2025

Microbiology (MR)

Degree Requirements

Core Courses12
Select at least four of the following courses:
Bacterial Pathogenesis
Microbial Metabolic Regulation
Introductory Virology
Immunology
Microbial Genetics & Genomics
Elective Courses18
"Elective Courses" are determined in conjunction with the academic committee to meet the 30 total hours
Total Hours30

Additional Requirements

  • An annual "Graduate Student Progress" evaluation form is completed by the student with his/her advisor and submitted to the Director of Graduate Programs (DGP)
  • An overall grade point average of at least 3.00 on graduate course work at NCSU is required

Faculty

Full Professors

  • Prema Arasu
  • Rodolphe Barrangou
  • Frederick Breidt
  • Dennis T. Brown
  • Jose Manuel Bruno-Barcena
  • Susan B. Carson
  • Mari S. Chinn
  • Marc A. Cubeta
  • Francis De Los Reyes
  • Robert R. Dunn
  • Frederick J. Fuller
  • Amy Michele Grunden
  • Hosni Moustafa Hassan
  • Christine Veronica Hawkes
  • Shuijin Hu
  • Michael Hyman
  • Lee-Ann Jaykus
  • Sophia Kathariou
  • Robert M. Kelly
  • Matthew D. Koci
  • Scott M. Laster
  • Hsiao-Ching Liu
  • John M. Mackenzie Jr.
  • Eric S. Miller
  • Ian T. Petty
  • Barbara Sherry
  • Siddhartha Thakur
  • Jeffrey A. Yoder

Associate Professors

  • Nicolas Emile Buchler
  • Douglas Franklin Call
  • Mary Elting
  • Jonathan E. Fogle
  • Reza A. Ghiladi
  • Megan E. Jacob
  • Cristina Lanzas
  • Jonathan W. Olson
  • Joshua Glenn Pierce
  • Frank Scholle
  • Michael L. Sikes
  • Robert G. Upchurch
  • Gavin John Williams

Assistant Professors

  • Oliver Baars
  • Louis-Marie Bobay
  • Benjamin John Callahan
  • Wei-Chen Chang
  • Mallory Choudoir
  • Nathan Crook
  • Kevin Garcia
  • Angela Rose Harris
  • Manuel Kleiner
  • Sharonda LeBlanc
  • Zhe Lyu
  • Erin Alison McKenney
  • Aram Arshak Mikaelyan
  • Ryan William Paerl
  • Ilenys Muniz Perez Diaz
  • William Kevin Petry
  • Kasie Raymann
  • Casey Michelle Theriot

Emeritus Faculty

  • Paul Edward Bishop
  • James W. Brown
  • Walter J. Dobrogosz
  • Gerald Hugh Elkan
  • Michael Carl Flickinger
  • Todd Robert Klaenhammer
  • Wesley Edwin Kloos
  • Geraldine Luginbuhl
  • Paul E. Orndorff
  • Leo W. Parks
  • Jason C. Shih

Adjunct Faculty

  • James M. Ligon
  • Maria Andrea Azcarate Peril
  • Scott Harold Shore
  • Daniel van der Lelie