Clifford Wayne Houston (1949-  )

Clifford Wayne Houston (1949- )

Clifford Wayne Houston is a nationally recognized microbiologist and became the first African American president of the American Society of Microbiology. Houston was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on December 3, 1949, to Mae Frances Hanley and Edgar Houston. He...
Michael D.L. Johnson (1982-  )

Michael D.L. Johnson (1982- )

Dr. Michael Johnson, microbial biologist and immunobiology professor at the University of Arizona, is currently researching the efficacy of copper as an inhibitor of coronavirus’ spread and replication. Johnson was born in 1982 into a single-parent household in...
James M. Jay (1927-2008)

James M. Jay (1927-2008)

Microbiologist James Monroe Jay was born in Fitzgerald, Georgia on September 12, 1927.  Following service in the U.S. Army during World War II he earned his bachelor’s degree at Paine College (cum laude), then his master’s in 1953 and Ph.D. in bacteriology and...