Prof. Russell Carlson University of Georgia, USA

Russell W. Carlson is Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, and is also the Executive Technical Director of the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center at the University of Georgia (www.ccrc.uga.edu). Russ' research interest for many years has been the role of microbial cell... read moresurface carbohydrates in microbe-host interactions. One of the systems of research that has served as a model of such interactions is Rhizobium-legume nitrogen-fixing symbiosis.