Robert Barber, Ph.D.

Professor - Biological Sciences

Biological Sciences Department

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1997

PHONE:
(262) 595-2419
EMAIL:
barber@uwp.edu
WEBSITE:
http://www.uwp.edu/~barber

I was raised in the northern Illinois town of Freeport, home of the “Pretzels”. I credit an outstanding group of primary and secondary public school teachers with providing me with both the ambition and education to pursue higher education at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana. While at U of I, I had the good fortune to complete an undergraduate research thesis in the laboratory of Dr. Abigail Salyers, working on the transmittance of antibiotic resistance among human commensal bacteria. After obtaining a B.S. in Microbiology with Distinction, I continued my education in the Cellular and Molecular Biology program at the UW-Madison, completing my Ph.D. in the laboratory of Dr. Timothy Donohue studying the one carbon metabolism and physiology in purple photosynthetic bacteria. Subsequently, I earned a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Dr. J. Greg Ferry at The Pennsylvania State University to study archaeal biochemistry and physiology. Currently, I am a professor of Biological Sciences, with a research focus on the application of genetic, biochemical, and informatics strategies to understand evolutionary relationships among enzyme families.

Areas of Expertise

  • Genomics
  • Biochemistry
  • Microbiology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Bioinformatics
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