Zuber biography

Peter Zuber, Ph.D., OHSU, co-Principal Investigator

Dr. Zuber is from upstate New York and received his bachelor's degree in microbiology in 1976 at the University of Maine. He earned a Ph.D. in microbiology at the University of Virginia in 1982 and was an American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

He has held assistant, associate and full professor positions at Oklahoma State University and Louisiana State University Medical Center. He has also served as a visiting faculty member at the Technical University of Berlin and in the Department of Biological Chemistry and Pharmacology at Harvard University Medical School.

In 1998, he accepted a position as professor at the Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology (OGI), Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. He is now professor in the new Department of Environmental and Biomolecular Systems in the OGI School of Science & Engineering at OHSU. While at OGI and OHSU, he has received departmental and institutional recognition for excellence in teaching and research.

He is author of more than 70 scientific publications and has served as journal editorial board member, and as study section panelist at the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health.

As a microbiologist and molecular geneticist, his research over the years has dealt with the interrelated areas of microbial stress response and the production of antimicrobial agents by microorganisms. His research has uncovered novel mechanisms of gene control that govern the response of microorganisms to encounters with harsh environments and toxic agents.