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Krishna Sundari Kenneth C. Carroll Roy D. Welch Ratan Gachhui Lacy Daniels Hardik Pathak Varsha Gupta Smriti Gaur Alok Kalra Franklin, Portugal Mohammad Hayatul Islam Professor Clive Ronson Anthony Garza Joseph Ashour Evelyn de Souza Oliveira Lopes Alexander Borisovich Prikhodko Prof. M.S. Dkhar Prof. H. Kayang Rizwana Rahim Dr. Papiya Ramanujam View MoreDr. Tao Weitao currently is an associate professor of Microbiology at Southwest Baptist University in Missouri. He teaches General and Medical Microbiology, Immunology, Infectious Diseases and General Biology as well as the related laboratories. His research focuses on evolutionary mechanisms of bacterial antibiotic resistance (biofilms, vesiculation, motility and SOS response), but his interest has extended to the inter-disciplinary area of Biophysics, Biomathematics and Nanotechnology. Dr. Weitao was also a physician specializing in Infectious Disease Control and Public Health in China. He received a degree in Medicine from Henan Medical University in China and PhD from Uppsala University in Sweden with Dr. Kurt Nordström who was a former member of the Nobel Prize Committee. Then he went to California Institute of Technology for postdoctoral training in Molecular Biology
Bacteria, biofilms, vesiculation, motility, SOS response, antibiotic resistance, DNA damage and repair.