Faculty Members |
Research Areas |
Vernon Carruthers , PhD
New faculty member, June 2006 |
Pathogenesis of parasitic infections: Mechanisms of cell invasion and survival during infection |
Cheong-Hee Chang, PhD
New faculty member, November 2006 |
Regulation of the effector function of CD4 T cells and dendritic cells |
Kathleen Collins, MD, PhD |
Molecular mechanisms of HIV immune evasion |
Stephen Cooper, PhD |
Analysis of regulation of the eukaryotic cell cycle |
Victor DiRita, PhD |
Genetic and molecular studies of host-microbe interactions |
Wesley Dunnick, PhD |
Immunoglobulin genes; DNA rearrangement |
Kathryn Eaton, DVM, PhD |
Immunopathogenesis of Helicobacter pylori |
N. Cary Engleberg, MD |
Pathogenesis of Legionnaires' disease; molecular mechanisms of intracellular infection |
David I. Friedman, MD |
Regulation of gene expression; role of phage in toxin expression |
A. Oveta Fuller, PhD |
Herpes simplex virus entry, receptors and viral pathogenesis |
Sonja R. Gerrard, PhD |
Replication and assembly of RNA viruses; molecular pathogenesis and evasion of host innate immune systems |
Philip Hanna, PhD |
Anthrax molecular pathogenesis and host responses; macrophage-mediated inflammation |
Yongqun “Oliver” He |
Brucella-Host Interaction and Bioinformatics |
Gary Huffnagle, PhD |
Pulmonary immunology; fungal pathogenesis and microflora-mediated modulation of immunity |
Michael J. Imperiale, PhD |
Virus-host interactions in cancer and kidney disease; virus assembly; gene therapy vectors |
Philip D. King, PhD |
Signal integration in T cells |
Denise Kirschner, PhD |
Host pathogen interactions during persistent infections |
Eric Krukonis, PhD |
Bacterial pathogenesis; regulation of bacterial virulence in response to environmental cues |
Yasmina Laouar , PhD
New faculty member, January 2007 |
Immunology/Mechanisms of Immunosuppression |
Gary D. Luker, MD |
DNA virus and cancer cell pathogenesis; non-invasive image analysis of signaling pathways and disease in living mice |
David J. Miller, MD, PhD |
Host-pathogen interactions in viral RNA replication |
Harry L. T. Mobley, PhD |
Bacterial pathogenesis; virulence of uropathogens and Helicobacter pylori |
Akira Ono, PhD |
HIV-1 replication and host cellular membranes |
Mary O'Riordan, PhD |
Host and bacterial adaptation to intracellular infection |
Howard Petty |
Inflammatory processes within the eye; high-speed microscopy for investigation of metabolic and other activity |
Malini Raghavan, PhD |
Molecular interactions in antigen presentation and host responses to virus infections |
Maria Sandkvist, PhD |
Bacterial pathogenesis: Molecular mechanism of extracellular protein secretion |
David H. Sherman, PhD |
Molecular genetic, biochemical and bioorganic chemical studies of microbial natural product biosynthesis |
Katherine Spindler, PhD |
Molecular pathogenesis and host susceptibility genetics of virus infections |
Joel Swanson, PhD |
Regulation of endocytosis and the cytoskeleton in macrophages |
Michele Swanson, PhD |
Growth of Legionella pneumophila in macrophages |
Alice Telesnitsky, PhD |
Mechanisms of murine leukemia virus and HIV-1 genetic variation |
Jason Weinberg , MD
New faculty member, Fall 2006 |
Pathogenesis of persistent viral infections |
Christiane Wobus, PhD
New Faculty member Spring 2007 |
Mechanisms of norovirus entry into host cells in vitro and in vivo |
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Emeritus Faculty |
Research Areas |
Don B. Clewell, PhD |
Enterococcal plasmids and transposons |
Rolf Freter, PhD |
Host-parasite relationships |
David I. Friedman, MD |
Regulation of gene expression; role of phage in toxin expression |
Elloit Juni, PhD |
Molecular taxonomy of the Moraxellaceae |
Frederick C. Neidhardt, PhD |
Bacterial growth physiology; molecular biology of gene expression |
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Research Professors and Research Investigators |
Research Areas |
Steven King, Research Assistant Professor |
Retrovirus replication and recombination |
Adam Hoppe,
Research Investigator |
Imaging signaling networks regulating vesicular traffic in yeast and macrophages |
My-Hang (Mae) Huynh
Research Investigator |
Biology of Toxoplasma infections. |
Simeone Marino, Research Investigator |
Mathematical modeling of host-pathogen interaction in Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection |
Syed Monem Rizvi,
Research Investigator |
Glycoprotein E and cell-to-cell spread of Herpes simplex virus type 1 |
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