Molecular Microbiology Faculty 

Research Interests: The intersection between human signal-transduction and bacterial pathogenesis; use of biochemical and cell biological analysis to define molecular mechanisms of microbial infectious disease

Research Interests: Bacterial mechanosensitive channels and their role in allowing the cell to adapt to different osmotic environments

Research Interests: Transcription and regulation in Clostridioides difficile and other bacterial species; structure and function of RNA polymerase; antibiotics discovery of RNA polymease inhibitors

Research Interests: RNA transcription, processing, and decay in Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpes virus and its human host cells

Research Interests: Biochemistry, HIV/AIDS, host-pathogen interactions, protein-protein interactions, protein-RNA complexes, transcription regulation

Research Interests: Role of nuclear transport factors in interphase and mitosis from viral pathogenesis to cell division

Research Interests: Microbiology, Genetics, Metagenomics, Evolution, Biochemistry, Phage Biology, Phage-Bacterial Arms Race, Conflict

Research Interests: Virus-host interactions; invertebrate model systems; RNA/DNA virus replication; immune evasion and pathogenesis; viral manipulation of host cytoskeletal networks; virus co-infections

Research Interests: Gram-negative infections in the immunocompromised host; host-pathogen interactions; novel therapeutics in gram-negative infections

Research Interests: Identification and genetic regulation of bacterial virulence and colonization factors; development of bacterial-host relationships

Research Interests: Host-microbial interactions; commensal bacteria; mucosal immunity

Research Interests: Hormone effects on airway epithelial cell responses to bacterial infection, novel therapeutics to target the Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection, host pathogen interaction in cystic fibrosis lung disease

Research Interests: Molecular epidemiology and biology of respiratory syncytial virus; newly emerging human viral pathogens

Research Interests: Pathogenesis of Candida albicans and Pseudomonas aeruginosa; host-pathogen interactions

Research Interests:Host-Microbe interactions, mucosal immunology, fungal immunology, inflamatory diseases

Research Interests: In vivo models, and clinical studies to investigate the role of the innate immune system in the development and resolution of inflammation

Research Interests: Microbiome, inflammatory bowel disease, E. coli, gut colonization, host-microbe interactions

Research Interests: CRISPR/Cas9 screening, host-pathogen interactions, immunology, norovirus, virology

Research Interests: Signal transduction in the microbial pathogen Yersinia pestis

Research Interests: Hepatitis C virus; poliovirus; yellow fever virus; virus-host interactions and pathogenesis

Research Interests: Co-infection, herpes viruses, host-pathogen interaction, immunology, virology

Research Interests: Immunology, microbiology, host-pathogen interactions, molecular mechanisms of immune surveillance, and inflammation

Research Interests: Mycobacterium tuberculosis pathogenesis; role of carbon monoxide (CO) in host-pathogen interactions; innate immune response to intracellular pathogens

Research Interests:  Host-viral pathogen interaction, neurotropic viruses, autophagy and innate immunity

Research Interests: Regulation of antigen receptor signal-transduction systems

Research Interests: Cellular and molecular pathogenesis of leishmaniasis and other parasitic infections; development of novel antiparasitics; host-pathogen interactions

Research Interests: Virus infectioninduced nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal cancer