Didier Dréau earned a Bachelor of Science in Physiology and Cell Biology from Rennes I University (Rennes, France), a Master of Science in Molecular and Cell Biology from Blaise Pascal University (Clermont-Ferrand, France), and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology with emphasis on immunology from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure Agronomique (ENSA) de Rennes (France).
James D. Oliver is a Bonnie E. Cone Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences at UNC Charlotte. He has published over 200 papers, primarily on Vibrio vulnificus, cause of the most deadly food-borne disease, and on bacterial dormancy, wherein standard bacteriological studies are unable to detect the bacteria.
Jeanette Bennett is an experimental health psychologist whose research focuses on the biopsychosociological antecedents of stress-related chronic disease. She seeks to understand the physiological mechanisms that cause chronic diseases and how individual differences affect and how stress management interventions can holistically improve health and well-being.
Jessica Schlueter, Ph.D., an associate professor, is a bioinformaticist with interests in plant genome evolution. She is also director of master's and certificate programs in bioinformatics.
Kausik Chakrabarti is an assistant professor of Biological Sciences. His expertise is in the interdisciplinary areas of Genomics, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry of RNA-mediated regulation of gene expression in human pathogens, such as parasites and viruses.
