Immunity, Microbes, and Molecular Pathogenesis (IMMP)
*Asterisk indicates faculty who have taken mentor training and/or implicit bias training.
Keriann Backus*
Chemical tools to manipulate the adaptive immune response
Steven Bensinger*
Lipid metabolism, inflammation and immunity
Peter Bradley*
Host-pathogen interactions in Toxoplasma gondii
Siobhan Braybrook*
Investigating host polysaccharide and microbiome interactions in plants and algae
Manish Butte
T cell activation and tolerance; genetic immunodeficiency and autoimmunity
Irvin Chen
Gene-based therapy for HIV and cancer
Yvonne Chen*
T-cell immunotherapy; chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) engineering; synthetic biology
Genhong Cheng
Host immune responses to infections, cancers and metabolic challenges
Samson Chow
Molecular mechanisms of viral integration into host DNA
Robert Clubb
Molecular basis of bacterial pathogenesis
Gay Crooks*
Human hematopoietic stem cells, lymphopoiesis and transplantation
David Dawson
Molecular alterations responsible for pancreatic adenocarcinoma
Mario Deng
Advanced Heart Failure/Mechanical Support/Heart Transplant
Timothy Donahue
Mechanisms of pancreatic cancer initiation and progression
Steven Dubinett*
Inflammation and immunity in the pathogenesis of lung cancer
James Economou
Melanoma, liver cancer and immunotherapeutics
Oliver Fregoso*
Molecular and evolutionary approaches to understand virus-host interactions of HIV
Samuel French
Proteomic study of liver cancer development
Feng Guo*
RNA-targeting drug development
Yousang Gwack
Macromolecular structure and regulation of CRAC channels
Elissa Hallem*
Sensory neurobiology of parasitic and free-living nematodes
Kent Hill*
Motility and Signaling Functions of the Trypanosome Cilium
Ann Hirsch
Beneficial plant-microbe interactions related to "the plant's guts" (roots)
Alexander Hoffmann*
Systems biology approaches to understand immune responses
Elaine Hsiao*
Microbiome-gut-brain interactions, bacterial metabolism, neurodevelopmental disease
Oluwatayo Ikotun*
Molecular imaging of immune cell dynamics in cancer and inflammatory disease
Patricia Johnson
Pathogenesis of the human parasite Trichomonas
Daniel Kaufman*
Therapeutics for autoimmune and neurological disease
Donald Kohn
Development and implementation of gene therapy using hematopoietic stem cells
Paul Krogstad
HIV replication, pathogenesis and clinical management. Picornavirus pathogenesis
Beth Lazazzera
Multicellular behavior and quality-control pathways in bacteria
Huiying Li
Systems biology of the human microbiome and diseases, metagenomics
Melody Li*
Innate immune defenses against mosquito-borne alphaviruses
Linda Liau
Clinical neuro-immunology & brain tumor immunotherapy
James Lloyd-Smith
Ecological and evolutionary dynamics of infectious diseases
Roger Lo*
Genetic underpinning of human melanoma
Megan McEvoy
Mechanisms of bacterial metal ion handling systems
M. Carrie Miceli
T Cell activation and inactivation
Jeffery F. Miller*
Mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis and immunity
Robert Modlin*
Innate and adaptive immune defense against microbial pathogens
Sherie Morrison
Functional properties of antibodies and novel antibody-based therapeutics
Tim O’Sullivan*
Tissue-resident innate immune responses during infection, cancer, and obesity
Manuel Penichet
Cancer immunology, immunotherapy, antibody-based therapeutics
Charalabos Pothoulakis
Neuropeptides and hormones in IBD, infections and cancer
Robert Prins
Mechanisms of anti-tumor immunity to malignant brain tumors
Caius Radu*
Nucleotide metabolism, drug discovery and development, molecular imaging
Dinesh Rao*
Physiology and pathology of non-coding RNA in hematopoiesis
Elaine Reed*
Immunity in transplantation and inflammatory diseases
Dorthe Schaue
Tumor-specific immune responses following radiation therapy
Robert Schiestl
Molecular mechanism of carcinogenesis
Ram Raj Singh
Immune cell interactions in the pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases
Stephen Smale*
Gene regulation mechanisms controlling inflammatory responses
Maureen Su
Autoimmunity and anti-tumor immunity
Elizabeth Tarling
investigate how protein aggregation affects cancer development and progression in order to identify novel therapeutic targets and develop peptide drugs with anti-cancer capabilities
Michael Teitell
Mitochondrial metabolism; Stem and B cell development and malignancy; bioengineering
Jide Tian
Peripheral T cell tolerance and neuroimmune regulation
James Tidball
Duchenne muscular dystrophy, immune system-muscle interactions
Hung Ton-That*
Molecular Mechanisms of Bacterial Pathogenicity
Thomas Vallim*
Transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation of lipid metabolism
Owen Witte
Growth regulation of hematopoietic and epithelial cancers
Ting-Ting Wu*
Modified herpesviruses as gene delivery vectors
Lili Yang
Next-generation immune checkpoint blockade therapy & off-the-shelf CAR-iNKT cell therapy for cancer
Otto Yang
Cellular immunity in HIV-1 pathogenesis and vaccine development
Jerome Zack*
Pathogenic processes of HIV-1 infection
Hong Zhou
CryoEM of membrane proteins, protein-nucleic acid complexes and microbes
