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
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 allergens and particulates activate epithelia and dendritic cells in the lung immune system
Development of the infant microbiome and immune system, and how that relates to development of allergic diseases
Delineating mechanisms by which environmental exposures during different life stages alter immune function
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
Neonatal immunology; T cell function in preterm infants
Immune-pathogenesis of Viral Infections
Pathogenesis of bacterial corneal infections and novel antimicrobial drug discovery
Emeritus Faculty
