Faculty

Last names beginning with: A-F, G-L, M-Z

Ronald B. Corley, Ph.D.

Chairman

Immune responses; the innate-adaptive interface

Deborah J Anderson, Ph.D.

Mucosal immunology in genital tissues; mechanisms of HIV-1 transmission

Katharine Bossart, Ph.D.

Emerging viruses including paramyxoviruses, flaviviruses and filoviruses

Jennifer Snyder-Cappione, Ph.D.

Director,

Flow Cytometry Core

John H. Connor, Ph.D.

Virus/Host interaction; viral domination of protein synthesis; antiviral compounds, systems biology of viral hemorrhagic fever, novel approaches to virus detection.

W. Paul Duprex, Ph.D.

Paramyxovirus pathogenesis, vaccine development and virus-cell interactions

Rachel Fearns, Ph.D.

Control of respiratory syncytial virus RNA synthesis

Feng Feng, Ph.D.

Computational immunology; innate immunity; toll-like receptors and their transcriptional network

Susan H. Fisher, Ph.D.

Regulation of nitrogen metabolism in B. subtilis, DNA-protein interactions

James E. Galagan, Ph.D.

Mycobacterium tuberculosis regulatory networks

Caroline A. Genco, Ph.D.

Microbial pathogenesis, vaccine development, host-parasite interactions, and bacterial gene regulation

Suryaram Gummuluru, Ph.D.

HIV immune evasion mechanisms

Andrew J. Henderson, Ph.D.

Cellular signals that regulate HIV transcription and replication

Linda Hyman, Ph.D.

The fungal response to simulated microgravity

Robin Ingalls, M.D.

Reproductive immunology and the pathogenesis of gonococcal and chlamydia infections

Thomas B. Kepler, Ph.D.

Quantitative systems immunology; vaccine development

Igor Kramnik, Ph.D.

Genes controling host resistance and susceptibility to tuberculosis; biology of tuberculosis granulomas; mechanisms of macrophage activation and differentiation

David E. Levin, Ph.D.

Stress signaling and cell wall biogenesis in fungi

Joseph P. Mizgerd, Sc.D.

Acute lower respiratory tract infection; cytokines; innate immunity; neutrophil recruitment and activation; pneumonia; transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression

Gustavo Mostoslavsky, M.D. , Ph.D.

Stem cell biology and gene therapy

Elke Mühlberger, Ph.D.

Host response to filovirus infection; molecular mechanisms of filovirus replication and transcription

John R. Murphy, Ph.D.

Structure of the diphtheria toxin repressor; diphtheria toxin calalytic domain and entry into the eukaryotic cell cytosol; structure-function of IL7

Barbara S. Nikolajczyk, Ph.D.

Inflammation in type 2 diabetes and other inflammatory diseases; molecular mechanisms of disease pathogenesis; regulation of IL-1 β production

Stephanie M. Oberhaus, Ph.D.

Medical and Dental Education

Ian R. Rifkin, M.D., Ph.D.

Mechanisms responsible for the pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus and lupus-associated atherosclerosis

Manish Sagar, M.D.

HIV transmission pathogenesis and role of antibodies in protecting against infection

John C. Samuelson, M.D., Ph.D.

Biochemistry, cell biology, pathogenesis, and evolution of parasites that cause diarrhea and dysentery

David E. Seldin, M.D., Ph.D.

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