FACULTY

 Departmental Faculty and their Research Programs

*Members of the Graduate Faculty are available as mentors to graduate students.

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*Joel B. Baseman, Ph.D.

Host-mycoplasma interplay; Mechanisms of cytadherence; Invasion; Intracellular persistence; Molecular basis of virulence; Toxin-mediated cytopathology; Gene regulation

*Michael T. Berton, Ph.D.

Cytokine and Toll-like receptor signaling; immunity to infection; Francisella tularensis; interleukin-4

*Santanu Bose, Ph.D.

Innate immunity against negative strand RNA viruses; virus-host interactions; identification and characterization of anti-viral factors; anti-viral signaling pathways induced by NF-kappa B and interferons; human parainfluenza and respiratory syncytial viruses; innate immune anti-viral response in respiratory epithelial cells; development of virus based anti-cancer therapeutics with oncolytic viruses

*Subramanian Dhandayuthapani, Ph.D.

Molecular basis of host-pathogen interaction; stress signaling and regulation of gene expression in Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycoplasma genitalium

*Peter H. Dube, Ph.D.

Bacterial host-pathogen interaction in vivo; inflammation; cytokine response; Yersinia; asthma, inflammatory T-cell responses

*William G. Haldenwang, Ph.D.

Molecular genetics; bacterial sporulation; RNA polymerase biochemistry

*Kenneth M. Izumi, Ph.D.

Epstein-Barr virus transformation of B-lymphocyte growth; viral oncoprotein signal transduction; nuclear transactivation

*David Kadosh, Ph.D.

Control of filamentous growth and virulence in the major fungal pathogen Candida albicans; identification and characterization of novel C. albicans virulence factors; transcriptional regulation; C. albicans genomics

*David J. Kolodrubetz, Ph.D.

Bacterial genetics; virulence mechanisms in periodontal pathogens; transcriptional regulation; function of microbial surface layer proteins

*Keith A. Krolick, Ph.D.

Immunobiology; Autoimmune disease; Two-way communication between the immune system and autoimmune target tissues; Immune and muscle responses in Myasthenia Gravis

*Carlos J. Orihuela, Ph.D.

Use of comparative genomics to identify differences between invasive and non-invasive clinical isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae; Identification of novel virulence determinants and assessment of their vaccine potential

*Brian L. Wickes, Ph.D.

Medical mycology; molecular mechanisms of fungal pathogenesis, mating and development in Cryptococcus neoformans, Candida albicans biofilms molecular biology, animal models of invasive aspergillosis

*Yan Xiang, Ph.D.

Poxvirus pathogenesis and immune modulation; virus-host interactions; protein structure-function

*Guangming Zhong, Ph.D.

Molecular basis of Chlamydia-host interactions; Chlamydiae pneumoniae in atherosclerosis; Proteomics analysis of chlamydial hypothetical proteins; Vaccine development

 Graduate Faculty Members with Primary Appointments
in other Departments

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