Primary Faculty
Rocky Baker, Pharm
Assistant Research Professor
David J. Barton, PhD
Professor
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
Assistant Professor
The classroom is my laboratory; reimagining immunology education through creativity and innovation
Kelly Doran, PhD
Professor
Studying host - pathogen interactions in the central nervous system (CNS) and the female reproductive tract during infection and colonization
Breck Duerkop, PhD
Associate Professor
Phage-bacteria interactions and mobile DNA related to antibiotic resistant bacteria and the microbiota
Rachel S. Friedman, PhD
Associate Professor
Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes
Cell trafficking in type 1 diabetes; Immunotherapeutics development
Laurent Gapin, PhD
Professor
Mechanisms of iNKT cell development and antigen recognition
Andrew Getahun, PhD
Assistant Professor
Regulation of B cell activation
Jenna Guthmiller, PhD
Assistant Professor
Underlying host and viral factors that limit broadly protective humoral immunity to inform next-generation influenza virus vaccine design.
Katie Haskins, PhD
Professor
Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes
Immunoregulation in autoimmune diabetes; pancreatic beta-cell autoantigens
Curtis Henry, PhD
Associate Professor
Alexander Horswill, PhD
Professor
Bacterial pathogenesis including quorum-sensing signal production, biofilm development mechanisms, virulence factor function in host-pathogen
Jordan Jacobelli, PhD
Associate Professor
Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes
Lymphocyte trafficking and cell-cell interactions in health and disease
Kimberly Jordan, PhD
Research Associate Professor
Ross Kedl, PhD
Professor
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
Assistant Professor
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.
Ju Sim Kim, PhD
Assistant Research Professor
Jared Klarquist, PhD
Assistant Research Professor
Our research focuses on B cell and CD8 T cell cross-talk. Specifically, we are investigating how B cells promote CD8 T cell responses to vaccines and how they contribute to naïve CD8 T cell homeostasis.
Julie Lang, PhD
Associate Research Professor
Laurel Lenz, PhD
Professor
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
Liyen Loh, PhD
Assistant Research Professor
Thomas E. Morrison, PhD
Professor
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
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
Professor
Molecular mechanisms of B cell development and selection and the development of autoimmunity.
Mercedes Rincon, PhD
Professor
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.
Brian Russo, PhD
Assistant Professor
We are interested in uncovering the molecular mechanisms required for bacteria to cause infection and are focused on the intestinal pathogen Shigella flexneri
Katherine Sabourin, PhD
Assistant Research Professor
Michael Schurr, PhD
Associate Professor
Transcriptional regulation and molecular biology of bacterial virulence factors
Jill Slansky, PhD
Professor
Immune response to cancer
Raul Torres, PhD
Professor
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
Professor
Molecular and redox determinants in the pathogenesis of intracellular bacteria
Martin Voskuil, PhD
Associate Professor
Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Burkholderia pseudomallei mechanisms of latency and drug tolerance
Chuangqi Wang, PhD
Assistant Research Professor
Systems Immunology and Quantitative Imaging, Host-Pathogen Interaction, Humoral and Cellular Immune Correlates