Dwayne A. Elias
Microbial Ecology & Physiology
Biosciences Division
UT-Battelle, LLC
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6036
Phone: (865)574-0956
Fax: (865)576-3989
eliasda@ornl.gov
Dwayne received his B.Sc. from the University Of Winnipeg in 1989 with a major in Biology, his M.Sc. from the University Of Manitoba in 1994 with a major in Microbiology and his Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma in 1997 majoring in Microbiology. Prior to becoming a Research and Development Staff Member in the Biosciences Division at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in 2009, he was an Assistant Research Professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia in the Department of Biochemistry. Dwayne is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Missouri in the Biological Sciences Department as well as an Assistant Professor in the Biochemistry Cellular and Molecular Biology Department at the University of Tennessee. Dwayne’s primary research interests focus on microbial physiology and ecology. Examples include Biochemical pathway elucidation and characterization within bacteria, Systems biology studies, Elucidation of the function of hypothetical genes, and Microbial interactions.
