Microbiology and Immunology Faculty
Primary Faculty
Antimicrobial drug discovery using pathogenic Staphylococcus aureus and Acinetobacter baumannii: exploiting components of the bacterial RNA metabolism machinery; characterizing prokaryotic ribonucleases; understanding the impact of the host environment on antibiotic resistance and virulence factor expression.
Cancer immunotherapy/Host immune response to influenza infection/ Inflammation biology of sepsis
Experimental platform using the amphibian Xenopus for research in immunotoxicology, fundamental and medical immunology.
Specificity and role of CD4 T cells in response to vaccination and infection
Immune responses to respiratory viruses and experimental vaccines
Research Faculty
Secondary Faculty
Defining molecular pathways by which inhaled allergens and particulates activate lung mucosal immunity.
Effect of lifestyle, human milk, and infant microbiome of development of immune system and allergic diseases.
Defining the impact of environmental exposures on immune system development and function, with emphasis on how early life exposures shape health and disease later in life.
Systems biology, synthetic biology, computational biology, horizontal gene transfer, bacterial population dynamics, microbial metabolism, antibiotic resistance
Platelets in vascular injury and inflammation
Understanding host-pathogen interactions and the osteoimmunology of orthopaedic infections
The role of metabolism in lineage differentiation
Molecular determinants of and clinical outcomes related to normal and abnormal development of the adaptive immune system in human infants.
Immune-pathogenesis of Viral Infections
Pathogenesis of bacterial corneal infections and novel antimicrobial drug discovery
Emeritus Faculty
