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David J. Bzik, Ph.D.

Professor of Microbiology & Immunology
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Toxoplasma gondii virulence and persistence mechanisms | Host cell manipulation mechanisms driving cancer immunotherapy

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Ambrose Cheung, M.D.

Professor of Microbiology & Immunology
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Virulence factor regulation in Staphylococcus aureus | Disease relevant stress responses | Novel targets for the development of antimicrobial therapy

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Robert Cramer, Ph.D.

Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
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Aspergillus fumigatus virulence | Fungal metabolism and biofilm formation | Host-pathogen interactions in hypoxic environments | antifungal drug discovery

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Karl Griswold, Ph.D.

Professor of Engineering
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Protein engineering in the development of therapeutics including antimicrobials

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Mary Lou Guerinot, Ph.D.

Professor of Biological Sciences
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Bradyrhizobium japonicum symbiosis with host plants | Metal acquisition and distribution

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Annie G. Hoen, Ph.D

Associate Professor of Epidemiology
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Human microbiome in infancy | Environmental drivers of infant intestinal microbiome | Determinants of infectious disease risk, emergence, temporal dynamics and geographic spread

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Deborah A. Hogan, Ph.D.

Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
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Microbial interactions in chronic infections | Divergent evolution in infection | Bacterial-fungal interactions

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Nicholas Jacobs, Ph.D.

Emeritus Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
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Microbial metabolism and stress resistance | Pseudomonas aeruginosa phenazine biology

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Jon Kull, Ph.D.

Professor of Chemistry
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X-ray crystallographic analysis of transcription factors and host cytoskeletal proteins | Novel inducing ligands in host-microbe interactions | Biophysical characterization of protein function

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Wil Leavitt, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Earth Sciences
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Microbiological effects on geochemistry | Stable isotope analysis of  microbial biochemistry and physiology | Elemental and metal cycles in microbiology (C, S, O, N, P and H)

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David Leib, Ph.D.

Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
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Herpes simplex virus | Viral latency and persistence | Novel targets for antiviral drug discovery.

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Lee Lynd, Ph.D.

Professor of Engineering
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Biofuels | Biofuel Strain engineering | Cellulosic biomass conversion to ethanol

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Dean Madden, Ph.D.

Professor of Biochemistry
Associate Director, Lung Biology COBRE
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Molecular structure and interactions ion channels | CFTR trafficking, uptake, and recycling | Structural and biochemical analysis of microbial manipulation of immune responses

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Larry Myers, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Biochemistry
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Epigenetic transcriptional regulation in pathogenic fungi | Transcriptionally regulated drug resistance mechanisms

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Carey Nadell, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences
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Bdellovibrio-mediated control of microbial communities | Phage-bacterial interactions | Biofilm-scale analysis of microbial interactions and fitness

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Randy Noelle, Ph.D.

Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
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Antibody-based cancer immunotherapy | Cellular vaccines for cancer

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Joshua Obar, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
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Aspergillus fumigatus conidia-immune interactions | Inflammatory immunopathology induced by influenza virus | Strain-specific host interactions

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George A. O’Toole, Ph.D.

Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
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Biofilm formation | Microbial interactions in biofilm formation and biofilm drug resistance | Intestinal microbiome and inflammation

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Ekaterina Pletneva, Ph.D.

Professor of Chemistry

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Metal ions in microbial physiology | Regulation of bacterial respiration in host interactions | Biophysical analysis of microoxic metabolism

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Benjamin D. Ross, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
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Mechanistic, ecological, and evolutionary understanding intestinal Bacteroidales | Bacteroidales interactions via the type VI secretion system (T6SS) | Metagenomics of the gastrointestinal microbiome

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Daniel Schultz, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
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Evolutionary optimization of antibiotic responses | Constraints and fitness costs that shape evolution | Dynamic regulation strategies of transcription

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Bruce A. Stanton, Ph.D.

Professor of Microbiology & Immunology
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Integrative genomics and proteomics of cystic fibrosis | Host-pathogen interactions in cystic fibrosis (CF)

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Surachai Supattapone, M.D., Ph.D., D.Phil.

Professor of Biochemistry
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Prion diseases | Host genetics of infectious disease

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Edward Usherwood, Ph.D.

Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
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Chronic virus infections | Gammaherpesviruses | Immunotherapy development

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Charles R, Wira, Ph.D.

Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
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Female sex hormones influence on immunity in the female reproductive tract | HIV-genital mucosa interactions

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Michael E. Zegans, M.D.

Professor of Surgery (Ophthalmology) and of Microbiology and Immunology
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Ocular microbiology and bacterial biofilm formation | Diseases of the ocular surface | Corneal transplantation

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Olga Zhaxybayeva, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
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Horizontal gene transfer | Genomic signatures of microbial adaptations | Microbial communities | Evolution of viruses and Viriforms

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