- Immunology
- Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
- Tumor Immunology and Tumor Virology
- Vaccine Biology
- Virology
For a listing of faculty research, organized alphabetically, click here.
For a faculty research brochure (PDF format; readable with
Abode Acrobat), click here.
Immunology
| FACULTY | AREA OF RESEARCH INTEREST |
| Barth, Richard K. | Pulmonary Fibrosis, T Cell Immunity |
| Bottaro, Andrea | Regulation of Immunoglobulin Genes |
| Bidlack, Jean | Pharmacology of brain and lymphocytic opioid receptors |
| Blaxall, Burns | Cytokine Regulation of Cardiac Gene Expression |
| Crispe, Nick | Cell cycle control and apoptosis in T lymphocytes in vivo |
| Fowell, Deborah | Genetic Determinants that Shape the Immune Response During Infectious and Autoimmune Disease |
| Frelinger, John G. | Immunity to Tumor Antigens |
| Jin, Xia | Immune Responses to HIV-1; HIV Vaccine Development |
| Li, Willis | Developmental Significance of JAK/STAT Signaling Pathways |
| Livingstone, Alexandra | T Cell Memory. |
| Lord, Edith M. | Cell Mediated Immunity to Tumors |
| Maggirwar, Sanjay | NFkB as a Survival Factor in Neurons and in Cancer Cells |
| Miller, Jim | Role of LFA-1 in T Cell Costimulation |
| Miller-Graziano, Carol | Immunobiology and Stress Response Research |
| Mosmann, Tim | Immune Regulation by T Cell Subsets and their Cytokines |
| Moynihan, Jan | Psychoneuroimmunology |
| Phipps, Richard P. | B Cells and Prostaglandins; Fibroblasts as Effector Cells in Immunity. |
| Robert, Jacques | Evolution of T Cell Immunity and Immune Surveillance |
| Rose, Robert | Human Papillomavirus: Immunity and Vaccine Development |
| Sant, Andrea | Class II Restricted Antigen Presentation |
| Sanz, Ignacio | B Cells and Antibodies in Tolerance and Autoimmunity |
| Schwarz, Edward | Molecular Mechanisms in Rheumatoid Arthritis |
| Segal, Benjamin | Immune Responses in the Brain: Autoimmunity and Tumor Immunotherapy |
| Simpson-Haidaris, Patricia | Role of Fibrinogen in Inflammation |
| Topham, David | T Cell Immunity to Respiratory Viruses |
| Young, Fay | Normal and Abnormal B-lymphocyte Development |
| Yule, David | Mechanisms Underlying Ca2+ Signaling Events |
Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
| FACULTY | AREA OF RESEARCH INTEREST |
| Butler, Scott | Post-transcriptional Regulation of mRNA Expression in the Nucleus of Eukaryotic Cells |
| Clark, Virginia | Regulation of Virulence in Neisseria gonorrhoeae |
| Dumont, Mark | Yeast Molecular Biology, Signal Transduction |
| Haidaris, Constantine | Pathogenesis of Infectious Eukaryotic Microorganisms |
| Hayes,Jeffrey | DNA Structure, Protein-DNA Interactions Includes new work using a slime mold model system. |
| Marquis, Robert E. | Microbial Physiology |
| Miller, Benjamin | Biomolecular Sensing for Detection of Microbial Pathogens |
| Pavelka, Martin | Biosynthesis of the Cell Wall of Mycobacterium tuberculosis |
| Pearce, David | Yeast Models for Human Disease |
| Phizicky, Eric | Functional Genomics, tRNA Processing in Yeast |
| Quivey, Robert | Regulation of Bacterial Gene Expression |
| Turner, Doug | RNA Structure, Therapeutics Includes studies targeting human pathogens such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Candida albicans. |
Tumor Immunology and Tumor Virology
| FACULTY | AREA OF RESEARCH INTEREST |
| Barth, Richard K. | Pulmonary Fibrosis in Cancer |
| Crispe, Nick | Cell Cycle Control and Apoptosis in T Lymphocytes |
| Dewhurst, Stephen | Viral Vectors and Breast Cancer Vaccine Development. |
| Frelinger, John G. | Immunity to Tumor Antigens |
| Lord, Edith M. | Cell Mediated Immunity to Tumors |
| Maggirwar, Sanjay | NFkB as a Survival Factor in Cancer Cells and in Neurons |
| Phipps, Richard P. | Prostaglandins as Anti-Tumor Agents; Pulmonary Fibrosis in Cancer. |
| Rose, Robert | Human Papillomavirus: Immunity and Vaccine Development |
| Segal, Benjamin | Tumor Immunotherapy in the Brain |
| Simpson-Haidaris, Patricia | Role of Fibrinogen in the Extracellular Matrix in Cancer |
| Young, Fay | Development of B Cell Tumors |
Vaccine Biology
| FACULTY | AREA OF RESEARCH INTEREST |
| Bowers, Bill | Development of HSV amplicon-based gene therapy for treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. |
| Dewhurst, Stephen | Viral Vectors and Vaccine Development for HIV and Breast Cancer. |
| Jin, Xia | Immune Responses to HIV; HIV Vaccine Development. |
| Rose, Robert | Human Papillomavirus: Immunity and Vaccine Development |
Virology
| FACULTY | AREA OF RESEARCH INTEREST |
| Bambara, Robert | HIV Reverse Transcriptase |
| Bowers, Bill | Development of HSV amplicon-based gene therapy for treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. |
| Demeter, Lisa | HIV-1 Drug Resistance and Recombination |
| Dewhurst, Stephen | Viral Vectors and HIV/Cancer Vaccine Development; Mechanisms of NeuroAIDS; Human Herpesvirus-7. |
| Gelbard, Harris | Effects of HIV-1 Infection on Neuronal Function, Signaling, and Fate in the CNS |
| Jin, Xia | Immune Responses to HIV; HIV Vaccine Development. |
| Kim, Baek | HIV Reverse Transcripase: Fidelity and Role in Evolution; HIV Protease |
| Maggirwar, Sanjay | Role of NFkB in Neuronal Survival in AIDS |
| Rose, Robert | Human Papillomavirus: Immunity and Vaccine Development |
| Smith, Harold | Functional Analysis of an HIV-Inhibitory RNA Editing Enzyme, CEM15.
A separate project-specific web page is also available, and a recent news article describes a related biotech company that has been generated by Dr. Smith. |
| Takimoto, Toru | Molecular Mechanisms of Paramyxovirus Infection, Replication and Assembly |
| Ward, Brian | Molecular Mechanisms of Poxvirus Envelope Formation |
| Wedekind, Joseph | Structural Analysis of an HIV-Inhibitory RNA Editing Enzyme, CEM15.
A separate project-specific web page is also available. |