Immunity, Microbes, and Molecular Pathogenesis (IMMP)
*Asterisk indicates faculty who have taken mentor training and/or implicit bias training.
George Agak
T-cell biology; Inflammation in understudied skin types; immunity to skin bacteria
Keriann Backus*
Chemical tools to manipulate the adaptive immune response
Mehdi Bouhaddou*
Decoding Viral Control of Host Signaling to Design Multi-Virus Therapeutic Strategies
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
Yvonne Chen*
T-cell immunotherapy; chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) engineering; synthetic biology
Quen Cheng*
Molecular mechanisms of innate immune training
Robert Clubb*
Molecular basis of bacterial pathogenesis
Anthony Covarrubias*
Investigating the role of the immune system and inflammation in metabolic disease, cancer, and aging
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
Gregory Donaldson
Molecular symbiosis between epithelial cells and gut microbiota
Steven Dubinett*
Inflammation and immunity in the pathogenesis of lung cancer
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
Jonathan Herman
Understanding vaccine-induced and natural immunity to pathogens
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
Mireille Kamariza*
Molecular engineering, biosensor designs, chemical mycobacteriology, RNA & CRISPR technologies
Daniel Kaufman*
Therapeutics for autoimmune and neurological disease
Donald Kohn
Development and implementation of gene therapy using hematopoietic stem cells
Devesha Kulkarni
Mucosal Immunology, Intestinal epithelial-immune cell interactions
Hrishikesh Kulkarni*
Modulating inflammation in lung injury and infection
Caroline Kuo
Gene editing for inborn errors of immunity
Melissa Lechner*
Immune responses in cancer, autoimmunity, and immunotherapy
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
Sanaz Memarzadeh
Overcoming mechanisms of therapy resistance in human carcinomas
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
Theodore Nowicki
T-cell immunotherapies for cancer
Tim O’Sullivan*
Tissue-resident innate immune responses during infection, cancer, and obesity
Manuel Penichet
Cancer immunology, immunotherapy, antibody-based therapeutics
Lena Pernas*
Organelle and metabolic dynamics of the host-pathogen interaction
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
Philip Scumpia*
Understanding immunity and developing immunotherapies for skin diseases.
Christopher Seet
Cancer immunotherapy and immune cell development
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*
Molecular mechanisms that maintain cholesterol trafficking and homeostasis in immune cells in metabolic and cardiopulmonary diseases.
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
David Wong
Role of biogenesis, transport and metabolism of molecular markers in biofluids, in health and disease.
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
Hong Zhou*
CryoEM of membrane proteins, protein-nucleic acid complexes and microbes
