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The Schools of Nursing and Pharmacy operate on both the Oxford and Jackson campuses. The Schools of Dentistry, Health Related Professionals and Medicine, and the Health Sciences Graduate School, are based in Jackson only. (Additional healthcare programs are available through the School of Applied Sciences on the Oxford campus.) Other than these exceptions, the schools above are on the Oxford campus.

Faculty Profile

Erik F Y Hom

Biology
Associate Professor of Biology
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401 Shoemaker Hall
University, MS 38677
(662) 915-1731
Joined UM: August 20, 2014

Brief Bio

Erik Hom is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology. A graduate of Swarthmore College, Dr. Hom received his Ph.D. in Biophysics from the University of California, San Francisco, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University, in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology & Faculty of Arts and Sciences Center for Systems Biology. His expertise and research interests include: synthetic ecology, the evolution of symbiosis, microbial evolutionary ecology, genomics, microscopy and image processing, and biological approaches for waste transformation and valorization.

Degrees

PhD
Biology
University of California-San Francisco (2006)

Awards

Dr. Mike L. Edmonds New Scholar Award
2019