Microbiology

  • Deborah J. Anderson, PhD
    Research interests: Mucosal immunology in genital tissues; mechanisms of HIV-1 transmission
  • Katherine Bossart, PhD
    Research interests: Emerging viruses including paramyxoviruses, flaviviruses, and filoviruses
  • John H. Connor, PhD
    Research interests: Virus/host interaction; viral domination of protein synthesis; the potential use of viruses as cancer therapy
  • Ronald B. Corley, PhD
    Research interests: B lymphocyte development and differentiation; antibody assembly, trafficking and secretion
  • W. Paul Duprex, PhD
    Research interests: Paramyxovirus pathogenesis and attenuation
  • Rachel Fearns, PhD
    Research interests: Control of respiratory syncytial virus RSV synthesis
  • Susan H. Fisher, PhD
    Research interests: Regulation of nitrogen metabolism in B. subtilis, DNA-protein interactions
  • James E. Galagan, PhD
    Research interests: Mycobacterium tuberculosis regulatory networks
  • Lisa Ganley-Leal, PhD
    Research interests: Correlates of immunity in human schistosomiasis; inflammatory bowel disease; B cells in human disease
  • Caroline A. Genco, PhD
    Research interests: Microbial pathogenesis, vaccine development, host- parasite interactions, and bacterial gene regulation
  • Suryaram Gummuluru, PhD
    Research interests: Virus-Host Interactions in HIV-1 Pathogenesis
  • Andrew Henderson, PhD
    Research interests: Cellular signals that regulate HIV transcription and replication
  • Linda Hyman, PhD
    Research interests: The fungal response to simulated microgravity
  • Robin Ingalls, MD
    Research interests: Reproductive immunology and the pathogenesis of gonococcal and chlamydia infections
  • Thomas B. Kepler, PhD
    Research interests: Quantitative systems immunology; vaccine development
  • Mark S. Klempner, MD
    Research interests: Basic molecular biology and pathogenic mechanisms of Borrelia burgdorferi
  • Igor Kramnik, PhD
    Research interests: Genes controlling host resistance and susceptibility to tuberculosis; biology of tuberculosis granulomas; mechanisms of macrophage activation and differentiation
  • David E. Levin, PhD
    Research interests: Stress signaling and cell wall biogenesis in fungi
  • Joseph P. Mizgerd, ScD
    Research interests: Acute lower respiratory tract infection; cytokines; innate immunity; neutrophil recruitment and activation; pneumonia; transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression
  • Gustavo Mostoslavsky, MD, PhD
    Research interests: Stem cell biology and gene therapy
  • Elke Mühlberger, PhD
    Research interests: Host response to filovirus infection, molecular mechanisms of filovirus replication and transcription
  • John R. Murphy, PhD
    Research interests: Structure of the diphtheria toxin repressor; diphtheria toxin catalytic domain and entry into the eukaryotic cell cytosol; structure- function of IL7
  • Barbara S. Nikolajczyk, PhD
    Research interests: Inflammation in type 2 diabetes and other inflammatory diseases; mechanisms of disease pathogenesis; regulation of IL-1β production
  • Ian R. Rifkin, MD, PhD
    Research interests: Mechanisms responsible for the pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus and lupus-associated atherosclerosis
  • John C. Samuelson, MD, PhD
    Research interests: Biochemistry, cell biology, pathogenesis, and evolution of parasites that causes diarrhea and dysentery
  • David E. Seldin, MD, PhD
    Research interests: Application of transgenic and knockout mouse models to study dysregulated kinases that play a role in the molecular basis of lymphoproliferative diseases and other malignancies
  • Gregory A. Viglianti, PhD
    Research interests: Molecular biology of HIV-1; the role of virus-host cell interactions in pathogenesis
  • Lee M. Wetzler, MD
    Research interests: Vaccine development; microbial immunity and pathogenesis; effect of bacterial products on eukaryotic cells