Paul B. Schweiger
Campus: Springfield
Details
Education
- PhD, 2009, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
- Post-doctoral research: University of Bonn (2009-2012)
Teaching
- BIO 310 Microbiology
- BIO 508 & BIO 608 Environmental Microbiology
- BIO 512 & BIO 613 Industrial Microbiology
- BIO 517 & BIO 617 Microbial Physiology and Metabolism
Research and professional interests
- Applied and industrial microbiology, focusing on acetic acid bacteria
- Use of genetic and metabolic information for strain improvement by genetic engineering to produce designer microbial biofactories
- Microbial production of novel industrial products (i.e. white biotechnology)
- Employing molecular microbiological techniques to monitor waters with a major focus on detection of fecal indicator organisms and pathogens to inform wastewater and recreational water management