Frank E. Dailey, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Genetics

A native New Englander, Dr. Dailey obtained his Bachelor of Science and Masters of Microbiology from the University of Connecticut in Storrs, Connecticut. He then went on to obtain his Ph.D. in Cell and Molecular Biology in the Health Sciences at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

His co-mentors were Dr. Frederick Neidhardt and Dr. John Cronan. His thesis work involved discovering novel roles for amino acid biosynthetic isozymes in bacteria. After a short post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Wisconsin he went on to do a fellowship in the laboratory of Howard Berg in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at Harvard University. His research was in the areas of flagella assembly and chemotaxis in bacteria. After leaving Harvard he further pursued these fields as a visiting scientist at Yale University. His current area of research involves the isolation and characterization of novel vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VREs).

Dr. Dailey has held numerous faculty and teaching positions, including the Biology Department at Gannon University, Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine and the School of Pharmacy in Erie, Pennsylvania and at the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio.