Faculty Research Interests
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Innate immunity and host-microbial interactions in the female reproductive tract |
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Pathogenesis of parasitic infections: Mechanisms of cell invasion and survival during infection |
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The impact of Immune receptor diversity in the response to mutable pathogens and tumors; Immunological memory and transplantation; Mutable vaccines |
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Regulation of the effector function of CD4 T cells and dendritic cells |
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Molecular mechanisms of HIV immune evasion |
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Bacterial pathogens |
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Genetic and molecular studies of host-microbe interactions |
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Immunoglobulin genes; DNA rearrangement |
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Immunopathogenesis of Helicobacter pylori |
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Pathogenesis of Legionnaires' disease; molecular mechanisms of intracellular infection |
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Regulation of gene expression; role of phage in toxin expression |
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Human virus entry, pathogenesis and infection preventions |
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Humoral (antibody) immune response initiation dynamics |
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Anthrax molecular pathogenesis and host responses; macrophage-mediated inflammation |
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Brucella-Host Interaction and Bioinformatics |
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Pulmonary immunology; fungal pathogenesis and microflora-mediated modulation of immunity |
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Virus-host interactions in healthy individuals and transplant patients; virus assembly |
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Signal integration in T cells |
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Host pathogen interactions during persistent infections with emphasis on Tuberculosis |
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Protein crystallography; Bacterial degradation and fermentation of resistant dietary polysaccharides in the human distal gut |
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Bacterial pathogenesis; regulation of bacterial virulence in response to environmental cues |
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Immunology/Mechanisms of Immunosuppression |
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RNA Virus Evolution |
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DNA virus and cancer cell pathogenesis; non-invasive image analysis of signaling pathways and disease in living mice |
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Microbial degradation of complex carbohydrates in the human distal gut |
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Host-pathogen interactions in viral RNA replication |
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Bacterial pathogenesis; virulence of uropathogens and Helicobacter pylori |
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Innate and adaptive immunity post-bone marrow transplant and herpesvirus exacerbations of pulmonary fibrosis |
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HIV-1 replication and host cellular membranes |
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Host and bacterial adaptation to intracellular infection |
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Transplantation Immunology, stem cell-immune system interaction, genomic stability, accommodation in transplantation and host defense |
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Molecular interactions in antigen presentation and host responses to virus infections. Protein folding, Antigen Presentation and Immunity |
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Bacterial pathogenesis: Molecular mechanism of extracellular protein secretion |
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Analysis of host-microbiome interactions; computational microbial ecology |
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Molecular genetic, biochemical and bioorganic chemical studies of microbial natural product biosynthesis |
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Molecular pathogenesis and host susceptibility genetics of virus infections |
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Regulation of endocytosis and the cytoskeleton in macrophages |
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Growth of Legionella pneumophila in macrophages |
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Mechanisms of murine leukemia virus and HIV-1 genetic variation |
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Pathogenesis of persistent viral infections |
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Mechanisms of norovirus entry into host cells in vitro and in vivo |
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Bacterial pathogenesis of gastrointestinal infectious disease. Microbial ecology of the gastrointestinal tract |
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| Emeritus Faculty | Research Areas |
Enterococcal plasmids and transposons |
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Analysis of regulation of the eukaryotic cell cycle |
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Regulation of gene expression; role of phage in toxin expression |
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Molecular taxonomy of the Moraxellaceae |
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Bacterial growth physiology; molecular biology of gene expression |
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| Research Professors and Research Investigators | Research Areas |
Chris Alteri |
Pathogen metabolism and bacterial physiology in the host |
My-Hang (Mae) Huynh |
Biology of Toxoplasma infections |
Brian Janes |
Bacterial pathogenesis and molecular genetics of Vibrio, Bacillus, and Clostridium species |
Tanya Johnson |
Bacterial pathogenesis, protein-protein interactions |
Steven King |
Retrovirus replication and recombination |
Simeone Marino |
Mathematical modeling of host-pathogen interaction in Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection |
Jyl Matson |
Antimicrobial peptide resistance mechanisms and pathogenesis of Vibrio cholerae |
Syed Monem Rizvi |
Glycoprotein E and cell-to-cell spread of Herpes simplex virus type 1 |
Alejandra Yep-Rodriguez |
Information Forthcoming |
