Faculty
Faculty
Affiliated Faculty
Jennifer Anolik, M.D., Ph.D.
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Microbiology & Immunology
Medicine
Research Interest: The role of B cells in the pathophysiology of human systemic lupus and rheumatoid arthritis and the study of new immuno-modulatory treatments
Microbiology & Immunology
Medicine
Research Interest: The role of B cells in the pathophysiology of human systemic lupus and rheumatoid arthritis and the study of new immuno-modulatory treatments
Mentor for Immunology, Microbiology, and Virology Ph.D. Program
Stephen Dewhurst, Ph.D.
Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interest:
Research Interest:
Understanding the interaction of HIV with glial cells; Developing an improved live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV); Elucidating the host cell response to infection by viral pathogens (with emphasis on SARS-CoV-2 and Adeno-associated virus, AAV)
Mentor for Immunology, Microbiology, and Virology Ph.D. Program
Paul Dunman, Ph.D.
Flaum Eye Institute
Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interest:
Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interest:
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.
Mentor for Immunology, Microbiology, and Virology Ph.D. Program
Michelle Dziejman, Ph.D.
Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interest: Type Three Secretion System mediated pathogenesis of V. cholerae
Research Interest: Type Three Secretion System mediated pathogenesis of V. cholerae
Mentor for Immunology, Microbiology, and Virology Ph.D. Program
Harris Gelbard, M.D., Ph.D.
Neuroscience
Pediatrics
Neurology
Research Interest: Molecular mechanisms and potential pharmacological and gene therapeutic interventions for neurologic disease associated with HIV-1 infection of the central nervous system.
Pediatrics
Neurology
Research Interest: Molecular mechanisms and potential pharmacological and gene therapeutic interventions for neurologic disease associated with HIV-1 infection of the central nervous system.
Mentor for Immunology, Microbiology, and Virology Ph.D. Program
Steve Georas, M.D.
Environmental Medicine
Medicine
Research Interest:
Program for Advanced Immune Bioimaging
Microbiology & ImmunologyEnvironmental Medicine
Medicine
Research Interest:
Defining molecular pathways by which allergens and particulates activate epithelia and dendritic cells in the lung immune system
Mentor for Immunology, Microbiology, and Virology Ph.D. Program
Scott Gerber, Ph.D.
Surgery
Research Interest: The Gerber lab studies tumor immunology with a focus on harnessing the immune system to recognize and kill cancerous cells utilizing an immunotherapeutic approach to enhance the efficacy of chemo/radiotherapies to control or even cure both primary and metastatic malignancies.
Center for Tumor Immunology Research
Microbiology & ImmunologySurgery
Research Interest: The Gerber lab studies tumor immunology with a focus on harnessing the immune system to recognize and kill cancerous cells utilizing an immunotherapeutic approach to enhance the efficacy of chemo/radiotherapies to control or even cure both primary and metastatic malignancies.
Mentor for Immunology, Microbiology, and Virology Ph.D. Program
Steven Gill, Ph.D.
Research Interest: Microbial pathogens and the impact of human microbial flora on human health and disease.
Genomics Research Center (GRC)
Center for Tumor Immunology Research
Microbiology & ImmunologyResearch Interest: Microbial pathogens and the impact of human microbial flora on human health and disease.
Mentor for Immunology, Microbiology, and Virology Ph.D. Program
Stephen Hammes, M.D., Ph.D.
Mentor for Immunology, Microbiology, and Virology Ph.D. Program
Minsoo Kim, Ph.D.
Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interest:
Center for Tumor Immunology Research
Program for Advanced Immune Bioimaging
Pharmacology & PhysiologyMicrobiology & Immunology
Research Interest:
Cancer immunotherapy/Host immune response to influenza infection/ Inflammation biology of sepsis
Mentor for Immunology, Microbiology, and Virology Ph.D. Program
B. Paige Lawrence, Ph.D.
Environmental Medicine
Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interest:
Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interest:
Delineating mechanisms by which environmental exposures during different life stages alter immune function
Mentor for Immunology, Microbiology, and Virology Ph.D. Program
Alexandra Livingstone, Ph.D.
Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interest: Understanding mechanisms for generating and maintaining T cell memory, with particular emphasis on responses primed by immunization with dendritic cells
Research Interest: Understanding mechanisms for generating and maintaining T cell memory, with particular emphasis on responses primed by immunization with dendritic cells
Mentor for Immunology, Microbiology, and Virology Ph.D. Program
Allison Lopatkin, Ph.D.
Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interest:
Research Interest:
Systems biology, synthetic biology, computational biology, horizontal gene transfer, bacterial population dynamics, microbial metabolism, antibiotic resistance
Mentor for Immunology, Microbiology, and Virology Ph.D. Program
Jim Miller, Ph.D.
Research Interest: Molecular and cellular events that regulate T cell signaling and activation
Program for Advanced Immune Bioimaging
Microbiology & ImmunologyResearch Interest: Molecular and cellular events that regulate T cell signaling and activation
Mentor for Immunology, Microbiology, and Virology Ph.D. Program
Cynthia Monaco, M.D., Ph.D.
Microbiology & Immunology
Medicine
Research Interest: Effect of the Microbiome/Virome on Mucosal and Systemic Inflammation in Health and Disease
Medicine
Research Interest: Effect of the Microbiome/Virome on Mucosal and Systemic Inflammation in Health and Disease
Mentor for Immunology, Microbiology, and Virology Ph.D. Program
Craig Morrell, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Medicine
Microbiology & Immunology
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Research Interest:
Microbiology & Immunology
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Research Interest:
Platelets in vascular injury and inflammation
Mentor for Immunology, Microbiology, and Virology Ph.D. Program
Tim Mosmann, Ph.D.
Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interest: The regulation of cytokine responses of human and mouse T-cell subsets in infections asthma, allergy and autoimmunity
Research Interest: The regulation of cytokine responses of human and mouse T-cell subsets in infections asthma, allergy and autoimmunity
Mentor for Immunology, Microbiology, and Virology Ph.D. Program
Joshua Munger, Ph.D.
Biochemistry & Biophysics
Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interest: Mechanisms of metabolic network manipulation induced by viral infection and oncogenic mutation.
Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interest: Mechanisms of metabolic network manipulation induced by viral infection and oncogenic mutation.
Mentor for Immunology, Microbiology, and Virology Ph.D. Program
Shawn Murphy, Ph.D.
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interest: Immunoregulatory properties of trophoblast cells
Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interest: Immunoregulatory properties of trophoblast cells
Mentor for Immunology, Microbiology, and Virology Ph.D. Program
Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan, Ph.D.
Orthopaedics
Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interest:
Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interest:
Understanding host-pathogen interactions and the osteoimmunology of orthopaedic infections
Mentor for Immunology, Microbiology, and Virology Ph.D. Program
Jennifer Nayak, M.D.
Microbiology & Immunology
Pediatrics
Research Interest: CD4 T cells in primary and secondary influenza infection
Pediatrics
Research Interest: CD4 T cells in primary and secondary influenza infection
Mentor for Immunology, Microbiology, and Virology Ph.D. Program
Martin Pavelka, Ph.D.
Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interest: Biosynthesis of the Cell Wall of Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Biodefense Research
Research Interest: Biosynthesis of the Cell Wall of Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Biodefense Research
Mentor for Immunology, Microbiology, and Virology Ph.D. Program
Sally Quataert, Ph.D.
Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interest: Standardization of immunological techniques for clinical investigation of human immune status.
Research Interest: Standardization of immunological techniques for clinical investigation of human immune status.
Mentor for Immunology, Microbiology, and Virology Ph.D. Program
Jacques Robert, Ph.D.
Microbiology & Immunology
Environmental Medicine
Research Interest: Experimental platform using the amphibian Xenopus for research in immunotoxicology, fundamental and medical immunology
Environmental Medicine
Research Interest: Experimental platform using the amphibian Xenopus for research in immunotoxicology, fundamental and medical immunology
Mentor for Immunology, Microbiology, and Virology Ph.D. Program
Marlies Rossmann, M.D., Ph.D.
Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interest:
Mitochondrial Research and Innovation Group
Biomedical GeneticsMicrobiology & Immunology
Research Interest:
The role of metabolism in lineage differentiation
Mentor for Immunology, Microbiology, and Virology Ph.D. Program
Andrea Sant, Ph.D.
Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interest:
Research Interest:
Specificity and role of CD4 T cells in response to vaccination and infection
Mentor for Immunology, Microbiology, and Virology Ph.D. Program
Kristin Scheible, M.D.
Pediatrics
Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interest:
Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interest:
Neonatal immunology; T cell function in preterm infants
Mentor for Immunology, Microbiology, and Virology Ph.D. Program
Edward Schwarz, Ph.D.
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Urology
Medicine
Biomedical Engineering
Microbiology & Immunology
Orthopaedics
Research Interest: Inflammatory bone loss as seen in rheumatoid arthritis, infections, tumor metastasis and wear debris induced osteolysis around prosthetic implants
Urology
Medicine
Biomedical Engineering
Microbiology & Immunology
Orthopaedics
Research Interest: Inflammatory bone loss as seen in rheumatoid arthritis, infections, tumor metastasis and wear debris induced osteolysis around prosthetic implants
Mentor for Immunology, Microbiology, and Virology Ph.D. Program
Ruth Serra-Moreno, Ph.D.
Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interest: Studying the mechanisms by which Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and its close relative Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV) circumvent the barriers of the innate immunity in their respective hosts and cause Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
Research Interest: Studying the mechanisms by which Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and its close relative Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV) circumvent the barriers of the innate immunity in their respective hosts and cause Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
Mentor for Immunology, Microbiology, and Virology Ph.D. Program
Meera Singh, Ph.D.
Mentor for Immunology, Microbiology, and Virology Ph.D. Program
Toru Takimoto, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interest: Molecular Mechanisms of Paramyxovirus Infection, Replication and Assembly
Research Interest: Molecular Mechanisms of Paramyxovirus Infection, Replication and Assembly
Mentor for Immunology, Microbiology, and Virology Ph.D. Program
Juilee Thakar, Ph.D.
Research Interest: Systems approach utilizing bioinformatics, and dynamic modeling tools to study immune response to infections and vaccination.
Program for Advanced Immune Bioimaging
Microbiology & ImmunologyResearch Interest: Systems approach utilizing bioinformatics, and dynamic modeling tools to study immune response to infections and vaccination.
Mentor for Immunology, Microbiology, and Virology Ph.D. Program
David Topham, Ph.D.
Research Interest:
Program for Advanced Immune Bioimaging
Microbiology & ImmunologyResearch Interest:
Immune responses to respiratory viruses and experimental vaccines
Mentor for Immunology, Microbiology, and Virology Ph.D. Program
Brian Ward, Ph.D.
Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interest: Molecular Mechanisms of Poxvirus Envelope Formation
Research Interest: Molecular Mechanisms of Poxvirus Envelope Formation
Mentor for Immunology, Microbiology, and Virology Ph.D. Program
Rachel Wozniak, M.D., Ph.D.
Flaum Eye Institute
Ophthalmology
Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interest:
Ophthalmology
Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interest:
Pathogenesis of bacterial corneal infections and novel antimicrobial drug discovery
Mentor for Immunology, Microbiology, and Virology Ph.D. Program
Terry Wright, Ph.D.
Pediatrics
Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interest: Immune response and Pathogenesis of lung injury and related pulmonary inflammation
Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interest: Immune response and Pathogenesis of lung injury and related pulmonary inflammation
Mentor for Immunology, Microbiology, and Virology Ph.D. Program
Felix Yarovinsky, M.D.
Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interest: Innate immunity, Host-microbial interactions, Immunoparasitology, Mucosal immunology
Research Interest: Innate immunity, Host-microbial interactions, Immunoparasitology, Mucosal immunology
Mentor for Immunology, Microbiology, and Virology Ph.D. Program
Yiping Zhu, Ph.D
Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interest: Working with retroviruses (HIV-1, MLV, etc.) and focuses on identifying new host antiviral factors and deciphering viral antagonism of host defense
Research Interest: Working with retroviruses (HIV-1, MLV, etc.) and focuses on identifying new host antiviral factors and deciphering viral antagonism of host defense
Mentor for Immunology, Microbiology, and Virology Ph.D. Program