Areas of Research

MPHRG FACULTY - HOST RESPONSES
Name Department Research Interests
Andrew Bent Plant Path Identification and characterization of genes and proteins that control plant disease resistance in soybeans and Arabidopsis
Paul Bertics Biomol Chem Regulation of cell proliferation and function by growth factors and toxins (i.e., endotoxin)
Bruce Christensen AHABS Parasitology / medical entomology; mosquito-parasite interaction and pathogenesis; lower eukaryotic molecular biology
Chuck Czuprynski Pathobiol Sci Immunology and pathogenic bacteria
Heidi Goodrich-Blair Bact Nematode-bacteria symbiosis and stationary phase Escherichia coli molecular signals in microbial communication
Bruce Klein Pediatrics Microbial-host interactions and pathogenesis
Mirek Malkovsky MMI Cellular genes regulating expression of human and simian immunodeficiency viruses; biological role of gamma/delta T cells
John Mansfield Bact Immunology and molecular biology of infectious disease
Dan Muller Rheumatology Immunology and host defenses
Donna Paulnock MMI Cellular and molecular immunology
Rich Proctor MMI Regulation of staphylococcal toxins and macrophage activation by endotoxin, bacterial adhesion to biomaterials
Matyas Sandor Pathology Roll of T cells in infectious diseases
Ron Schell MMI Immune responses to Borrelia burgdorferi
Ronald Schultz Pathobiol Sci Immunology and virology
Gary Splitter AHABS Immunology of infectious diseases
M. Suresh Pathobiol Sci Regulation of T cell proliferation, apoptosis, and memory
David Watkins Pathology Interactions between the immune system and the AIDS virus
Bill Weidanz MMI Immunoparasitology - The roles of T cells, T cell subsets, antigen reactive T cell lines and clones in immunity to malaria; characterization of responding T cell populations; identification of parasite inhibitory cells and molecules
Tim Yoshino Pathobiol Sci Physiological interactions between parasites and their invertebrate intermediate hosts; phylogeny of cellular immune mechanisms; invertebrate immunobiology; regulation of reproduction in snail vectors