|
Name |
Research Program |
|
Caitilyn Allen |
Physiology and genetics of bacterial plant pathogens |
David Andes |
Antifungal activity and drug resistance |
|
James Bangs |
Molecular parasitology |
|
Stephen
Barclay |
Developmental microbiology of dictyostelium,
pneumocystis, and cryptosporidium |
| Helen Blackwell |
Chemical approaches to modulate quorum sensing in animal and plant-associated bacteria; Design of artificial bacterial signaling molecules |
|
Frederick Blattner |
Molecular genetics/immunology |
|
Curtis Brandt |
Virology; pathogenesis of herpes simplex virus; gene
therapy and antiviral drugs |
|
Richard Burgess |
Biochemistry and molecular biology of RNA polymerase
and transcription factors |
| Amy Charkowski |
Mechanisms of plant-bacteria interactions in the natural environment |
|
Charles
Czuprynski |
Immunology and pathogenic bacteria |
|
Joseph
P. Dillard |
Molecular mechanisms of disease caused by the bacterium
Neisseria gonorrhoeae |
|
Marcin
Filutowicz |
Regulation of DNA replication |
|
Katrina
Forest |
Structural biology of pathogenesis |
|
Paul
Friesen |
Molecular biology of eukaryotic DNA viruses, regulation
of gene expression, programmed cell death (apoptosis),
and retrotransposons. |
|
Heidi Goodrich-Blair |
Nematode-bacteria symbiosis and stationary phase Escherichia
coli molecular signals in microbial communication |
|
Christina
Hull |
Molecular biology of human fungal pathogens |
|
Eric
Johnson |
Clostridium botulinum
and its toxins; food and industrial microbiology |
|
Yoshihiro
Kawaoka |
Molecular mechanism of interspecies transmission of
virus leading to influenza pandemics in humans; molecular
pathogenesis of influenza in poultry and mammals; Ebola
virus |
|
Bruce Klein |
Microbial-host interactions and pathogenesis |
|
Laura
Knoll |
Molecular mechanisms of development and pathogenesis
of Toxoplasma gondii |
|
Miroslav
Malkovsky |
Cellular genes regulating expression of human and simian
immunodeficiency viruses; biological role of gamma/delta
T cells |
|
John Mansfield |
Immunology and molecular biology of infectious disease |
| David O'Connor |
Genetics and immunology of HIV |
| Jorge Osorio |
Molecular pathogenesis, antivirals and vaccines for emerging diseases and biodefense pathogens |
|
Sean
Palecek |
Genetics of fungal adhesion and biofilm formation;
Yeast dimorphism |
|
Richard Proctor |
Regulation of staphylococcal toxins and macrophage
activation by endotoxin, bacterial adhesion to biomaterials |
|
Ned
Ruby |
Bacterial determinants of host-microbe interactions |
|
Matyas
Sandor |
Roll of T cells in infectious diseases |
|
Ronald Schell |
Immune responses to Borrelia
burgdorferi |
|
Stacey
Schultz-Cherry |
Molecular and cellular virology-basic cellular, biochemical,
and molecular biology of human influenza virus and astrovirus
pathogenesis |
|
Gary Splitter |
Immunology of infectious diseases |
|
Rob
Striker |
Nucleotide selectivity, error rate, and supramolecular
structure of the hepatitis C viral (HCV) polymerase |
|
Adel
Talaat |
Functional genomics for understanding the molecular
pathogenesis of tuberculosis and paratuberculosis |
|
David
Watkins |
Interactions between the immune system and the AIDS
virus |
|
Rodney Welch |
Molecular analysis of bacteria pathogens |
Jon Woods |
Pathogenic mechanisms, host - parasite interactions,
and environmental and virulence - associated gene regulation
of the dimorphic fungus Histoplasma
capsulatum |
|
Amy Wong |
Virulence mechanisms of foodborne pathogens |
