Immunity, Microbes, and Molecular Pathogenesis (IMMP)
*Asterisk indicates faculty who have taken mentor training and/or implicit bias training.
George Agak
T-cell biology; Inflammation in understudied skin types; immunity to skin bacteria
Keriann Backus*
Chemical tools to manipulate the adaptive immune response
Steven Bensinger*
Lipid metabolism, inflammation and immunity
Mehdi Bouhaddou*
Decoding Viral Control of Host Signaling to Design Multi-Virus Therapeutic Strategies
Peter Bradley*
Host-pathogen interactions in Toxoplasma gondii
Siobhan Braybrook*
Investigating host polysaccharide and microbiome interactions in plants and algae
Manish Butte
T cell activation and tolerance; genetic immunodeficiency and autoimmunity
Yvonne Chen*
T-cell immunotherapy; chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) engineering; synthetic biology
Quen Cheng*
Molecular mechanisms of innate immune training
Samson Chow
Molecular mechanisms of viral integration into host DNA
Robert Clubb*
Molecular basis of bacterial pathogenesis
Anthony Covarrubias*
Investigating the role of the immune system and inflammation in metabolic disease, cancer, and aging
Gay Crooks*
Human hematopoietic stem cells, lymphopoiesis and transplantation
David Dawson*
Molecular alterations responsible for pancreatic adenocarcinoma
Mario Deng
Advanced Heart Failure/Mechanical Support/Heart Transplant
Timothy Donahue
Mechanisms of pancreatic cancer initiation and progression
Gregory Donaldson
Molecular symbiosis between epithelial cells and gut microbiota
Steven Dubinett*
Inflammation and immunity in the pathogenesis of lung cancer
Oliver Fregoso*
Molecular and evolutionary approaches to understand virus-host interactions of HIV
Samuel French
Proteomic study of liver cancer development
Feng Guo*
RNA-targeting drug development
Yousang Gwack
Macromolecular structure and regulation of CRAC channels
Elissa Hallem*
Sensory neurobiology of parasitic and free-living nematodes
Kent Hill*
Motility and Signaling Functions of the Trypanosome Cilium
Ann Hirsch
Beneficial plant-microbe interactions related to "the plant's guts" (roots)
Alexander Hoffmann*
Systems biology approaches to understand immune responses
Elaine Hsiao*
Microbiome-gut-brain interactions, bacterial metabolism, neurodevelopmental disease
Oluwatayo Ikotun*
Molecular imaging of immune cell dynamics in cancer and inflammatory disease
Mireille Kamariza*
Molecular engineering, biosensor designs, chemical mycobacteriology, RNA & CRISPR technologies
Daniel Kaufman*
Therapeutics for autoimmune and neurological disease
Donald Kohn
Development and implementation of gene therapy using hematopoietic stem cells
Caroline Kuo
Gene editing for inborn errors of immunity
Beth Lazazzera*
Multicellular behavior and quality-control pathways in bacteria
Melissa Lechner*
Immune responses in cancer, autoimmunity, and immunotherapy
Huiying Li
Systems biology of the human microbiome and diseases, metagenomics
Melody Li*
Innate immune defenses against mosquito-borne alphaviruses
Linda Liau
Clinical neuro-immunology & brain tumor immunotherapy
James Lloyd-Smith
Ecological and evolutionary dynamics of infectious diseases
Roger Lo*
Genetic underpinning of human melanoma
Megan McEvoy
Mechanisms of bacterial metal ion handling systems
Sanaz Memarzadeh
Overcoming mechanisms of therapy resistance in human carcinomas
M. Carrie Miceli
T Cell activation and inactivation
Jeffery F. Miller*
Mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis and immunity
Robert Modlin*
Innate and adaptive immune defense against microbial pathogens
Theodore Nowicki
T-cell immunotherapies for cancer
Tim O’Sullivan*
Tissue-resident innate immune responses during infection, cancer, and obesity
Manuel Penichet
Cancer immunology, immunotherapy, antibody-based therapeutics
Robert Prins
Mechanisms of anti-tumor immunity to malignant brain tumors
Caius Radu*
Nucleotide metabolism, drug discovery and development, molecular imaging
Dinesh Rao*
Physiology and pathology of non-coding RNA in hematopoiesis
Elaine Reed*
Immunity in transplantation and inflammatory diseases
Dorthe Schaue
Tumor-specific immune responses following radiation therapy
Robert Schiestl
Molecular mechanism of carcinogenesis
Philip Scumpia*
Understanding immunity and developing immunotherapies for skin diseases.
Christopher Seet
Cancer immunotherapy and immune cell development
Ram Raj Singh
Immune cell interactions in the pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases
Stephen Smale*
Gene regulation mechanisms controlling inflammatory responses
Maureen Su
Autoimmunity and anti-tumor immunity
Elizabeth Tarling*
Molecular mechanisms that maintain cholesterol trafficking and homeostasis in immune cells in metabolic and cardiopulmonary diseases.
Michael Teitell*
Mitochondrial metabolism; Stem and B cell development and malignancy; bioengineering
Jide Tian
Peripheral T cell tolerance and neuroimmune regulation
James Tidball
Duchenne muscular dystrophy, immune system-muscle interactions
Hung Ton-That*
Molecular Mechanisms of Bacterial Pathogenicity
Thomas Vallim*
Transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation of lipid metabolism
Owen Witte
Growth regulation of hematopoietic and epithelial cancers
Ting-Ting Wu*
Modified herpesviruses as gene delivery vectors
Lili Yang*
Next-generation immune checkpoint blockade therapy & off-the-shelf CAR-iNKT cell therapy for cancer
Otto Yang
Cellular immunity in HIV-1 pathogenesis and vaccine development
Hong Zhou*
CryoEM of membrane proteins, protein-nucleic acid complexes and microbes
