MICROBIOLOGY - Key Persons


Amy Timshel

Job Titles:
  • Assistant to the Department Head

Dr. Jerri Bartholomew

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Chairman Graduate Affairs Committee

Dr. Maude M. David

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Chairman Graduate Admissions
  • Department
Dr. David is accepting new graduate students. Biography Dr. Maude M. David work focused on microbiota-gut-brain axis and applying new analytical methods to analyze multi-omics microbial datasets. After two postdoctoral positions at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Stanford School of Medicine, she joined Oregon State University as an Assistant Professor in January 2018, where she has a joined appointment in Microbiology and Pharmaceutical Sciences. Dr. Maude David's laboratory studies the gut-brain axis, to understand how microbes can impact our behavior, specifically in Autism Spectrum Disorder and Anxiety. She uses a crowd-sourced approach to collect lifestyle type information, diet habits, and samples. Her team is also working on identifying bottlenecks in microbial ecology and bioinformatics, bringing novel solutions to unravel microbial molecular mechanisms by applying notably deep learning approaches to microbiome datasets.

Lawrence Berkeley

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Marine Science

Job Titles:
  • Scientist

Nash Hall

Job Titles:
  • Department

Rebecca Vega Thurber

Job Titles:
  • Administration
  • Interim Department Head

Ruth Milston-Clements

Job Titles:
  • Facility Manager

Sally Tatala

Job Titles:
  • Department Support

Stephen Atkinson

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research