RUTGERS

The department provides a key leadership role for microbiology at Rutgers University. Our aim is to broadly advance the diverse research and educational experience in the field of microbiology that are offered at Rutgers and promote our rich traditions of microbiology. The department faculty shoulder the core teaching for the SEBS-based organismal-centered Graduate Program in Microbial Biology, launched in 2010, currently with 34 PhD and 11 MS students. The program is focused on fundamental microbial life processes and their applications, and offers a strong focus in understanding how microbes occupy every possible environmental niche on Earth (including frozen arctic tundra, deep sea hydrothermal vents, hazardous waste sites, and the human body) and how the diversity of microbial activities can be exploited to discover novel bioactive compounds, to characterize metabolic traits for degradation of hazardous chemicals, to develop new biofuel production methods, and to promote human..

Primary location: New Brunswick United States