News and Announcements

Upcoming Seminars

Timothy Murphy, M.D.

School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences

University at Buffalo-SUNY

"Pathogenesis of Haemophilus influenzae infection in COPD"

Tuesday, 11/24/09

3:00 PM

Aud III (Watzke) BSB

Richard Longnecker, Ph.D.

Dept of Microbiology-Immunology

Feinberg School of Medicine

Northwestern University

"How to Enter and Promote Cancer in B Cells - Lessons from Epstein-Barr Virus"

Tuesday, 12/1/09

3:00 PM

Aud III (Watzke) BSB

Sandra K. Weller, Ph.D.

Molecular, Microbial and Structural Biology

Univ of Connecticut

Health Center

"How Herpes Simplex Virus Commandeers the Host

Cell Chaperone and DNA Damage Machinery"

Tuesday, 12/8/09

3:00 PM

Aud III (Watzke) BSB

Welcome to the Department of Microbiology

The Microbiology Department is part of the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine and is located in the Bowen Science Building on The University of Iowa Health Care campus. Modern equipment and teaching laboratories are available for research and teaching. The department's faculty members teach and perform research in the areas of immunology, microbial genetics and physiology, microbial pathogenesis, and virology.

The Department of Microbiology shares the Bowen Science Building with the Departments of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Biochemistry, Molecular Physiology & Biophysics, and Pharmacology.