Departmental Faculty
Scott Alper, PhD
Genetic control of TLR signaling pathways
David J. Barton, PhD
Picornavirus RNA translation and replication; hepatitis C virus and innate antiviral immunity
Leslie Berg, PhD
Professor, Chair
T cell activation, differentiation, and responses to infection and how these processes are regulated by T cell antigen receptor signaling
Aimee Bernard, PhD
The classroom is my laboratory; reimagining immunology education through creativity and innovation
John C. Cambier, PhD
BCR Antigen Receptor Structure and signaling, MHC Class II signaling, Inhibitory “Checkpoint” Receptor
Kelly Doran, PhD
Studying host - pathogen interactions in the central nervous system (CNS) and the female reproductive tract during infection and colonization
Breck Duerkop, PhD
Phage-bacteria interactions and mobile DNA related to antibiotic resistant bacteria and the microbiota
Rachel S. Friedman, PhD
Cell trafficking in type 1 diabetes; Immunotherapeutics development
Laurent Gapin, PhD
Mechanisms of iNKT cell development and antigen recognition
Andrew Getahun, PhD
Axis Tunes PI3K Activity to Control Expression of Recombination Activating Genes in Early B Cell Development
Jenna Guthmiller, PhD
Assistant Professor
Underlying host and viral factors that limit broadly protective humoral immunity to inform next-generation influenza virus vaccine design.
James Hagman, PhD
Regulation of B cell development, epigenetics and cancer
Katie Haskins, PhD
Immunoregulation in autoimmune diabetes; pancreatic beta-cell autoantigens
Peter Henson, PhD
Innate immunity, inflammation and apoptotic cell recognition
Alexander Horswill, PhD
Bacterial pathogenesis including quorum-sensing signal production, biofilm development mechanisms, virulence factor function in host-pathogen
Elena Hsieh, MD
Mechanistic and translational questions in human immunology using high-dimensional single-cell mass cytomerty and ex-vivo cellular manipulation
Hua Huang, MD, PHD
Signaling and transcriptional regulation of genes that control innate effector cell development and function.
Jordan Jacobelli, PhD
Lymphocyte trafficking and cell-cell interactions in health and disease
John Kappler, PhD
Structure and function of the T-cell receptor and its ligands in autoimmunity, cancer and hypersensitivity
Ross Kedl, PhD
Intersection between innate and adaptive signals which lead to potent cellular immunity; exploration of how these signals might be manipulated for vaccine development and design
Marijke Keestra-Gounder, PhD
The major focus of my research program is to elucidate pathways of innate immunity that can distinguish harmless microbes from pathogens, thereby enabling the host to mount responses that are commensurate with the threat.
Laurel Lenz, PhD
Mechanisms for regulation of innate immune cell function and inflammation; impact of these in the context of microbial infections and in other disease contexts; and therapeutic implications
Philippa Marrack, PhD, FRS
T cell development; T-cell responses and death
Thomas E. Morrison, PhD
Immunological mechanisms that influence the clearance or persistence of arboviruses and protozoan parasites; molecular mechanisms by which pathogens counteract host innate and adaptive immune responses
Rebecca O'Brien, PhD
Specificity and function of gamma delta T lymphocytes
Kyla Ost, PhD
Assistant Professor
Interactions between commensal fungi and adaptive immune responses in the gut microbiome that impact fungal commensalism, fungal virulence, and inflammatory bowel disease.
Roberta Pelanda, PhD
Molecular mechanisms of B cell development and selection and the development of autoimmunity
R. Lee Reinhardt, PhD
The role and regulation of CD4+ T cell subsets and their cytokines in settings of type-2 immunity, malignancy, and autoinflammatory disease
David Riches, PhD
Basic mechanisms involved in the development lung inflammation and fibrosis
Mercedes Rincon, PhD
Areas of research are Role of p38 MAPK and GSK3β in T cell development and function as well as IL-6 as a key regulator of T cell immune response in inflammatory diseases and cancer.
Rosemary Rochford, PhD
Co-infections with and immune responses to human gammaherpesviruses and P. falciparum malaria
Brian Russo, PhD
We are interested in uncovering the molecular mechanisms required for bacteria to cause infection and are focused on the intestinal pathogen Shigella flexneri
Michael Schurr, PhD
Transcriptional regulation and molecular biology of bacterial virulence factors
Jill Slansky, PhD
Immune response to cancer
Raul Torres, PhD
B cell development and antibody response, regulation of tumor immunity by lysophospholipids
Linda van Dyk, PhD
Professor, Vice Chair
Genetic and molecular approaches to infection and pathogenesis by lymphotropic herpesviruses
Andrés Vázquez-Torres, DVM, PhD
Molecular and redox determinants in the pathogenesis of intracellular bacteria
Martin Voskuil, PhD
Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Burkholderia pseudomallei mechanisms of latency and drug tolerance
Gongyi Zhang, PhD
Structural and functional studies of proteins, epigenetics
Research Faculty
Rocky Baker, PhD
Kimberly Jordan, PhD
Husain Moroof, PhD