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| Name |
Department |
Research Interests |
| Paul Ahlquist |
Mol Virology |
Structure, evolution, and expression of RNA virus genomes |
| Caitilyn Allen |
Plant Path |
Physiology and genetics of bacterial plant pathogens |
| Dave Andes |
ID |
Clinical infectious disease |
| John Andrews |
Plant Path |
Microbial ecology |
| Jay Bangs |
MMI |
Molecular parasitology |
| Steve Barclay |
Bact |
Developmental microbiology of Dictyostelium, Pneumocystis, and Cryptosporidium |
| 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) |
| Fred Blattner |
Genetics |
Molecular genetics / immunology |
| Curtis Brandt |
MMI |
Virology; pathogenesis of herpes simplex virus; gene therapy and antiviral drugs |
| Richard Burgess |
Oncology |
Biochemistry and molecular biology of RNA polymerase and transcription factors |
| Bruce Christensen |
AHABS |
Parasitology / medical entomology; mosquito-parasite interaction and pathogenesis; lower eukaryotic molecular biology |
| Michael Collins |
Pathobiol Sci |
Veterinary bacteriology |
| Teresa Compton |
Oncology |
Pathogenesis and virology of human cytomegalovirus |
| William Craig |
ID |
Clinical infectious disease |
| Chuck Czuprynski |
Pathobiol Sci |
Immunology and pathogenic bacteria |
| Donn D’Alessio |
Preventive Med |
Clinical infectious disease |
| Joe Dillard |
MMI |
Molecular mechanisms of disease caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae |
| Marcin Filutowicz |
Bact |
Regulation of DNA replication |
| John Fleming |
Neurology |
Neurotropic coronaviruses |
| Katrina Forest |
Bact |
Structural biology of pathogenesis |
| Paul Friesen |
Biochem |
Molecular biology of eukaryotic DNA viruses, regulation of gene expression, programmed cell death (apoptosis), and retrotransposons |
| Heidi Goodrich-Blair |
Bact |
Nematode-bacteria symbiosis and stationary phase Escherichia coli molecular signals in microbial communication |
| Eric Johnson |
Food Micro |
Clostridium botulinum and its toxins; food and industrial microbiology |
| Jeff Jones |
ID |
Clinical infectious disease |
| Yoshi Kawaoka |
Pathobiol Sci |
Molecular mechanism of interspecies transmission of virus leading to influenza pandemics in humans; molecular pathogenesis of influenza in poultry and mammals; Ebola virus |
| Nancy Keller |
Plant Path |
Fungal molecular biology, mycotoxins |
| Bruce Klein |
Pediatrics |
Microbial-host interactions and pathogenesis |
| Laura Knoll |
MMI |
Molecular mechanisms of pathogenesis and developmental regulation in the intracelluar parasite Toxoplasma gondii |
| Paul Lambert |
Oncology |
Regulatory mechanisms employed by papillomaviruses in controlling viral transcription and plasmid DNA replication; Role of papillomaviral and cellular genes in the development of human cervical cancer |
| Sally Leong |
Plant Path |
Molecular basis of fungal pathogenesis |
| Dennis Maki |
ID |
Clinical infectious disease |
| 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 |
| George Mejicano |
ID |
Clinical infectious disease |
| Rebecca Montgomery |
Biochem |
Molecular mechanism of virus entry into cells, virus regulation of immune response, and viral pathogenesis |
| Dan Muller |
Rheumatology |
Immunology and host defenses |
| Ann Palmenberg |
Biochemistry |
Molecular biology of RNA picornaviruses; protein translation, proteolytic processing; RNA synthesis; viral pathogenesis; viral vaccines, vaccine vectors; computer-based sequence analysis |
| Donna Paulnock |
MMI |
Cellular and molecular immunology |
| Nicole Perna |
AHABS |
Molecular epidemiology, bacterial genomics, molecular evolution |
| 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 |
| Stacey Schultz-Cherry |
MMI |
Molecular and cellular virology - basic cellular, biochemical, and molecular biology of human influenza virus and astrovirus pathogenesis |
| David C. Schwartz |
Chemistry |
Optical genome mapping |
| Carol Spiegel |
Pathology |
Laboratory diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis, cost-effective use of the microbiology laboratory, clinical and in-vitro evaluation of antimicrobial agents, and evaluation of diagnostic kits and products |
| Gary Splitter |
AHABS |
Immunology of infectious diseases |
| Robert Striker |
MMI/Medicine |
Nucleotide selectivity, error rate, and supramolecular structure of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) polymerase |
| Bill Sugden |
Oncology |
Epstein-Barr virus, proliferation and immortalization of human B-lymphocytes |
| M. Suresh |
Pathobiol Sci |
Regulation of T cell proliferation, apoptosis, and memory |
| Adel Talaat |
AHABS |
Microbial pathogenesis, microbial functional genomics, and vaccine development |
| Andrew Urban |
ID |
Clinical infectious disease |
| Bennett Vogelman |
ID |
Clinical infectious disease |
| 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 |
| Bernie Weisblum |
Pharmacology |
Molecular genetics of antibiotic action and resistance |
| Rod Welch |
MMI |
Molecular analysis of bacterial pathogens |
| Susan West |
Pathobiol Sci |
Molecular biology of infectious diseases |
| Jon Woods |
MMI |
Pathogenic mechanisms, host - parasite interactions, and environmental and virulence - associated gene regulation of the dimorphic fungus Histoplasma capsulatum |
| 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 |
| Jaehyuk Yu |
Food Micro |
Fungi and mycotoxins: molecular genetics of asexual sporulation and mycotoxin biosynthesis in filamentous fungi |
