Faculty
Steve Melville
Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
- Ph.D., Microbiology, University of California at Davis, 1987
- Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California at Los Angeles, 1988 - 1992
- Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer, Tufts University School of Medicine, 1993 - 1995
Major Field of Interest
Bacterial Pathogenesis
Current Research
- The interactions of the host immune system with the anaerobic bacterial pathogen Clostridium perfringens. Specifically, the molecular mechanisms that allow the bacteria to avoid being killed by phagocytic cells of the immune system, macrophages and neutrophils
- The molecular regulation of toxin synthesis by C. perfringens, especially the enterotoxin that is responsible from food poisoning outbreaks
- The mechanism of pili-dependent gliding motility in C. perfringens
- (540) 231-1441
- (540) 231-8937 (Lab)
- melville@vt.edu
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Office: 217 Life Science I Building (Mail Code 0910)
Lab: 212 LSI
Blacksburg, VA 24061-0910
U.S.A.