Faculty
Faculty with Primary Appointments in Microbiology
Professor of Microbiology
Research interests: Intersection between human signal-transduction and bacterial pathogenesis; use of biochemical and cell biological analysis to define molecular mechanisms of microbial infectious disease.
Website: Alto Lab
Assistant Professor of Microbiology
Research interests: Transcription and regulation in Clostridioides difficile and other bacterial species; structure and function of RNA polymerase; high-throughput screening of transcription inhibitors.
Website: Cao Lab
Professor of Microbiology
Research interests: Gene expression, RNA biogenesis, and RNA decay in the Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus and its human host cell.
Website: Conrad Lab
Professor of Microbiology
Research interests: HIV-host interplay; mechanisms of transcription regulation, and evolution of viral-host macromolecular assemblies.
Website: D’Orso Lab
Assistant Professor of Microbiology
Research interests: The molecular determinants of phage-bacterial infection outcomes; gene discovery; evolutionary arms races; origins of new function.
Website: Forsberg Lab
Assistant Professor of Microbiology
Research interests: Virus-Host interactions; invertebrate model systems; RNA/DNA virus replication; immune evasion and pathogenesis; viral manipulation of host cytoskeletal networks; virus co-infections.
Website: Gammon Lab
Professor of Microbiology
Research interests: Identification of bacterial virulence and colonization factors; regulation of flagellar organelle biosynthesis and division; analysis of bacterial signal transduction pathways.
Website: Hendrixson Lab
Chair, Microbiology
Professor of Microbiology
Research interests: Virus-host interactions, pathogenesis, and evolution; virus-microbiota interactions; circadian control of viral infection.
Website: Pfeiffer Lab
Professor of Microbiology
Research interests: Virus-host interactions; innate immunity to viral infections; interferon signaling pathways and effector mechanisms.
Website: Schoggins Lab
Assistant Professor of Microbiology
Research interests: Virus-host interaction in the nasal/oral epithelium; the interaction between metabolism and immunity; virus infections-induced tumorigenesis in the upper aerodigestive tract.
Website: Wu Lab
Faculty with Secondary Appointments in Microbiology
Division Chief, Infectious Diseases and Professor, Internal Medicine and Microbiology
Research interests: Infectious diseases, neurological infections, arbovirus pathogenesis, and neurodegeneration.
Website: Beckham Lab
Professor, Biophysics and Microbiology
Research interests: Protein-protein and protein-ligand interactions; structural elucidation of enzymatic mechanisms.
Website: Brautigam Lab
Professor, Internal Medicine and Microbiology
Research interests: Gram-negative infections in the immunocompromised host; host-pathogen interactions; novel therapeutics in Gram-negative infections.
Chair, Immunology
Professor of Immunology and Microbiology
Research interests: Host-microbial interactions; commensal bacteria; mucosal immunity.
Website: Hooper Lab
Chief, Division of Pediatric Infectious Disease
Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology
Research Interests: Molecular epidemiology and biology of respiratory syncytial virus; newly emerging human viral pathogens.
Website: Kahn Lab
Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology
Research Interests: Pathogenesis of Candida albicans and Pseudomonas aeruginosa; host-pathogen interactions.
Website: Koh Lab
Associate Dean for Faculty Development
Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology
Research Interests: Cell biology of neutrophil-based inflammation under infectious and sterile inflammatory conditions, specifically focused on neutrophil priming by both host and bacterial stimuli; role of NAPDH oxidase 2 in signaling generated by TLR ligands and TNF; regulation of the NADPH oxidase function in neutrophils.
Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine and Microbiology
Research Interests: Bacterial colonization of the healthy and inflamed intestinal tract; how biofilm formation contributes to intestinal colonization; developing new therapeutics to treat intestinal diseases.
Website: Ni Lab
Assistant Professor of Immunology and Microbiology
Research Interests: Functional genomic CRISPR/Cas9 screens; mammalian physiology and immune responses to norovirus, influenza virus, and enterovirus.
Website: Orchard Lab
Assistant Professor, Immunology and Microbiology
Research Interests: Herpesviruses; parasite co-infection and viral reactivation and latency phenotypes.
Website: Reese Lab
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine (Infectious Disease) and Microbiology
Research Interests: Mycobacterium tuberculosis pathogenesis; role of carbon monoxide (CO) in host-pathogen interactions; innate immune response to intracellular pathogens.
Website: Shiloh Lab
Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine and Microbiology
Research Interests: Host-viral pathogen interaction, neurotropic viruses, autophagy and innate immunity.
Website: Thinwa Lab
Professor of Immunology and Microbiology
Research Interests: Regulation of immune responses and host-pathogen interactions by microRNAs; characterization of patients with primary immunodeficiency diseases.
Professor of Internal Medicine (Infectious Disease) and Microbiology
Research Interests: Innate immune recognition of HIV and other retroviruses; innate immune sensing of self vs non-self nucleic acids; pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases such as Aicardi-Goutieres syndrome and lupus.
Website: Yan Lab
Emeritus Professors
Professor Emeritus and Former Chair, Microbiology
Research interests: Regulation and roles of virulence-associated membrane lipoproteins in the Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi; structure and function of membrane lipoproteins in the syphilis bacterium, Treponema pallidum.
Website: Norgard Lab
Professor Emeritus of Immunology and Microbiology
Research interests: Translational immunology; profiling and targeted therapy of human tumors; development and clinical testing of vaccines.
Website: Vitetta Lab