Ongoing Research
Biochemistry
Professor
Research Interests:drug discovery for Malaria and Africa Sleeping Sickness
Biophysics
Professor
Research Interests:analyitical ultracentrifugation, protein-protein interactions, structural biology
Cell Biology
Professor
Research Interests:viral-host interactions, rna virus, nucleo-cytoplasmic trafficking
Center for the Genetics of Host Defense
Director
Research Interests:role of cytokines in the inflmamatory response, forward genetic analysis of immunity
Dermatology
Tamia Harris-Tryon, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Research Interests:skin microbiome, sebaceous gland biology, lipidomics, skin steroid hormones, bacterial metabolism
Immunology
Associate Professor
Research Interests:molecular immunology, signal transduction, regulation of T-cell differentiation
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:host-pathogen interactions, genetic conflicts, positive selection, genome evolution
Department Chair
Research Interests:host-microbial interactions, mucosal immunology
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:chronic liver diseases, non-alcoholic fatty liver diseases
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:neuro-immune interactions, intestinal neural circuits, host-microbial interactions
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:host-pathogen interactions, virology, immunology, norovirus, CRISPR/Cas9 screening
Associate Professor
Research Interests:co-infection, herpes viruses, host-pathogen interaction, immunology, virology
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:immunology, microbiology, host-pathogen interactions, molecular mechanisms of immune surveillance, inflammation
Professor
Research Interests:inborn errors of immunity: from discovery to restoration
Professor
Research Interests:innate immune sensing of self vs. non-self nucleic acids, pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:t cell differentiation and function, anti-viral immune response and anti-tumor immunity
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:inflammation, innate immunity, mitochondiral signaling pathways and tumor immunology
Internal Medicine
Professor & Division Chief
Research Interests:viral pathogenesis, neuroimmune responses, vaccine immunology, flavivirus pathogenesis
Professor & Division Chief
Research Interests:control of inflammatory responses in the intestine, inflammation and cancer progression
Professor & Division Chief
Research Interests:infections in solid organ transplant, norovirus
Professor
Research Interests:gram-negative infections in the immunocompromised host, host-pathogen interactions
Professor
Research Interests:gender disparities in lung diseases, sex hormone influence on host immunity, treatment advances for Cystic Fibrosis
Theodoros Kelesidis, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Research Interests:HIV-associated cardiometabolic disease, host-pathogen interactions
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:Celiac Disease, human genetics, immunology, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, rare digestive & liver diseases
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:antibody glycosylation, host-microbial interactions, humoral immunity, tuberculosis
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:microbiome, inflammatory bowel disease, E.coli, gut colonization, host-microbe interactions
Associate Professor
Research Interests:inflammation, tumor immunology, ubiquitionan
Hans-Christian Reinecker, M.D.
Associate Professor
Research Interests:Schlafen family proteins, immune responses by STING, cancer immunotherapy, inflammatory bowel diseases
Associate Professor
Research Interests:genetic analysis of signal-transduction pathways regulating B lymphocyte development and function
Associate Professor
Research Interests:innate immune response to intracellular pathogens, microbial pathogenesis, mucosal immunology, mycobacterium tuberculosis
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:bacterial pathogenesis, biomaterials science, device infection, host immunity, tissue engineering
Assistane Professor
Research Interests:host-viral pathogen interaction, neurotropic viruses, autophagy and innate immunity
Associate Professor
Research Interests:forward genetics, mucosal immunology, host-microbe interactions, innate immunity, vesicle trafficking
Lyda Hill Department of Bioinformatics
Distinguished Fellow
Research Interests:antiobiotic resistance in opportunistic pathogens, synthetic biology
Microbiology
Professor
Research Interests:intersection between human signal-transduction and bacterial pathogenesis
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:transcription and regulation in Clostridioides difficile and other bacterial species
Professor
Research Interests:intron retention, KSHV gene expression, RNA decay, RNA methylation
Professor
Research Interests:chromatin biology, epigenetics, gene dysregulation in cancer
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:microbiology, genetics, metagenomics, evolution, biochemistry, phage-bacterial arms race
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:virus-host interactions, invertebrate model systems, RNA/DNA virus replication
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:Genetic regulators controlling immune cell development
Professor & Chair
Research Interests:circadian control of viral infection, coxsackievirus, murine norovirus, reovirus, viral evolution, virus-host interactions and pathogenesis, virus-microbiota interactions
Professor
Research Interests:virus-host interactions and viral pathogenesis, antiviral immune responses, interferon effector mechanisms
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:interaction between metabolism and immunity, virus-host interaction in nasal and oral epithelium
Molecular Biology
Professor
Research Interests:Ubiquitin-proteasome pathway, NF-kappaβ signaling, innate immunity, T cell receptor signaling
Professor
Research Interests:vibrio, virulence factors, eukaryotic signaling systems, cellular signaling
Associate Professor
Research Interests:cancer biology, host-pathogen interactions, pseudokinases, signal transduction
Ophthalmology
Danielle M. Robertson, O.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Research Interests:infectious diseases, cornea, dry eye
Pathology
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:innate immunity, mucosal immunology, immunometabolism, post-translational regulation
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:Mendelian, genetics, allergy, glycosylation, autophagy, metabolism
Associate Professor
Research Interests:cell signaling, diet and metabolic disorders, gastrointestinal inflammation and cancer, gut microbiome, host-pathogen interaction, NOD-Like Receptors
Pediatrics
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:flavivirus infection, zika virus neurotropism, neurovirology, virus-host interactions
Professor & Division Chief
Research Interests:host-microbial interactions, bacterial-fungal interactions in the gut, the role of antibiotics in modulating infection and graft-versus-host disease
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:host-microbe interactions, mucosal immunology, fungal immunology, inflammatory diseases
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:cellular and molecular pathogenesis of leishmaniasis and other parasitic infections
Pharmacology
Professor
Research Interests:drug discovery, germ cell develpment, immunology, parasitology, regeneration
Associate Professor
Research Interests:biochemistry, biophysics, cell signaling, kinases, pseudokinases, host-pathogen interaction, co-evolution, immunology, parasitology, structural biology
Professor
Research Interests:antibiotic resistance and sensitivity, bacterial efflux pumps, evolvable antimicrobials
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:chemical biology and protein semi-synthesis, non-covalent interactions, regulatory mechanisms in metabolism