Areas of Research

MPHRG FACULTY - PARASITES
Name Department Research Interests
Jay Bangs MMI Molecular parasitology
Steve Barclay Bact Developmental microbiology of Dictyostelium, Pneumocystis, and Cryptosporidium
Bruce Christensen AHABS Parasitology / medical entomology; mosquito-parasite interaction and pathogenesis; lower eukaryotic molecular biology
Heidi Goodrich-Blair Bact Nematode-bacteria symbiosis and stationary phase Escherichia coli molecular signals in microbial communication
Laura Knoll MMI Molecular mechanisms of pathogenesis and developmental regulation in the intracelluar parasite Toxoplasma gondii
John Mansfield Bact Immunology and molecular biology of infectious disease
Donna Paulnock MMI Cellular and molecular immunology
Matyas Sandor Pathology Roll of T cells in infectious diseases
David C. Schwartz Chemistry Optical genome mapping
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