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Associate Professor - Integrated Biomedical Sciences
University of Detroit Mercy School of Dentistry
Detroit, Michigan
Dr. Krukonis teaches oral microbiology and infection control to Dental Hygiene students, oral microbiology, infection control, and infectious diseases to Dental students and current topics in microbiology to Residents in Periodontology, Endodontics and Orthodontics.
Current areas of dental research include: the etiology of root caries in geriatric populations, infection control in the dental clinical, and characterizing antimicrobial properties of essential oil products.
In addition, the Krukonis laboratory studies the molecular mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis by the medical pathogens Vibrio cholera (the causative agent of cholera) and Yersinia pestis (the causative agent of plague). Both are model organisms for the study of infectious disease.
Dr. Krukonis got his BA in Biology from Rice University in 1990 and his PhD in Molecular Biology and Microbiology from Tufts University in 1998. He joined the faculty of Detroit Mercy Dental in 2013.
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