Faculty Directory – Microbiology, Immunity, and Inflammation
| Faculty Name | Department | Research Topics |
|---|---|---|
| Steve Ackerman | Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics | Eosinophil effector functions in inflammation and tissue remodeling in asthma and allergy, regulation of eosinophil development |
| Judith Behnsen | Microbiology and Immunology | We study the role of the bacterial and fungal microbiota during Salmonella pathogenesis using in vitro and in vivo systems (germ-free mice). |
| Michael Caffrey | Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics | Biophysical Studies of Virus Entry. |
| Zheng W. Chen | Microbiology and Immunology |
| Luisa A DiPietro | Periodontics | Wound healing, tissue regeneration, response to injury |
| Pradeep K. Dudeja | Medicine | Pathophysiology of Diarrheal Diseases, IBD Associated Diarrhea, Gut-Microbe Interactions, Probiotics as antidiarrheals. |
| Michael Federle | Microbiology and Immunology |
| Patricia W Finn | Medicine | Immune-microbiome interactions in pulmonary disorders, including asthma, sarcoidosis, and transplantation. |
| Nancy Freitag | Microbiology and Immunology | Interests in host-pathogen interactions, mechanisms used by microbes to cause disease, and how common drugs suppress immunity to infection. |
| Bin He | Microbiology and Immunology | Herpesvirus, innate immunity, virus-host interaction, oncolytic virus and vaccine |
| Andrius Kazlauskas | Physiology and Biophysics; Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences | My research program seeks to improve treatment options for patients afflicted by blinding eye diseases and is focused on signaling events that govern angiogenic homeostasis. |
| Amy L. Kenter | Microbiology and Immunology |
| Kiwook Kim | Pharmacology and Regenerative Medicine | Our lab investigates development and physiological roles of monocyte and macrophages in steady state as well as pathological conditions |
| Donna MacDuff | Microbiology and Immunology | We study inflammation, interferons and innate immunity to viral and bacterial challenges, using small animal models, cell culture systems, biochemical analyses |
| Asrar B Malik | Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology | I study mechanisms of inflammation that underlie cardiovascular diseases. I challenge my trainees is to ask transformational questions. |
| Alexander Mankin | Pharmaceutical Sciences | Molecular mechanisms of protein synthesis, Mechanisms of antibiotic action and resistance, Synthetic biology/ribosome engineering |
| Alan McLachlan | Microbiology and Immunology | Hepatitis B virus (HBV), gene regulation, hepatocellular carcinoma, mouse development, DNA methylation |
| Dolly Mehta | Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology |
| Adam Oberstein | Microbiology and Immunology | Herpesvirus host-pathogen interaction; computational virology; oncolytic herpesviruses. |
| Lauren Palmer | Microbiology and Immunology | Host and bacterial metabolism regulating infection |
| Omar Perez | Pathology | Understanding the virus-host interaction using a systems virology approach, single cell transcriptomics, NGS, antiviral pharmacodynamics |
| Bellur S. Prabhaka | Microbiology and Immunology | Induction of tolerance to treat autoimmune diseases; Cancer biology; MADD function in Anaplastic Thyroid cancer |
| Jalees Rehman | Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics | Stem cell differentiation and tissue regeneration, Host defense/Inflammation and metabolism, Blood brain barrier in Alzheimer’s disease |
| Justin M. Richner | Microbiology and Immunology | Viral Immunology, vaccine development |
| Lijun Rong | Microbiology and Immunology |
| Susan R. Ross | Microbiology and Immunology | retrovirus, arenavirus, restriction factor, genetics of susceptibility to infection, innate immunity |
| Teruyuki Sano | Microbiology and Immunology | Host-bacteria interaction; How commensal induce immune cell activation; Tissue-tissue interaction through Immune cells and microbiome. |
| Shiva Shahrara | Rheumatology | Characterizing the function of effector macrophages & T cells in the early and later phases of RA and Ps |
| Deepak Shukla | Microbiology and Immunology | herpesvirus infection: mechanism, immunity & antivirals |
| Jun Sun | Medicine | Microbiome in inflammation and cancer |
| Chinnaswamy Tiruppathi | Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology |
| David Ucker | Microbiology and Immunology |
| Xiaowei Wang | Pharmacology and Regenerative Medicine, Bioengineering | miRNAs are small noncoding RNAs that regulate thousands of genes. We combine computational and experimental methods for integrative analysis of miRNA functions |