
RESEARCH FACULTY
Most members of the graduate faculty also belong to centers and/or institutes that focus on a specific problem or area in the biological sciences.
Roberta Attanasio
Public health data analysis
Sheyda Azimi
Azimi Lab
Microbiology, Host-Pathogen interactions
Deborah Baro
Baro Lab
Dopamine signalling;
SUMOylation control of neural activity
Margo Brinton
Proviral and antiviral cellular interactions for neurotropic flaviviruses;
COVID-19
Kuk-Jeong Chin
Plastic and crude Oil degradation mechanisms in anaerobic bacteria;
Fitness consequences of host-microbiome symbiosis
Geert de Vries
Sexual differentiation of the brain;
gut-brain interaction;
Neural control of social behavior
Zufeng Ding
Hemodynamic shear stress and atherosclerosis
Richard Dix
Herpesvirus diseases of the eye and brain
Zehava Eichenbaum
Bacterial pathogenesis;
host interaction;
pathogenic streptococci
Eric Gaucher
Gaucher Lab
Protein engineering of therapeutic and industrial enzymes;
Synthetic biology using non-natural amino acids;
Molecular evolution of ancient proteins
Eric Gilbert
Microbial biofilms, or communities of microorganisms attached to surfaces
James Gurney
Bacteriophage
Julia Hilliard
Foreign versus natural host infections using B virus;
COVID-19 diagnostics
Mukesh Kumar
Novel therapeutic targets in Zika virus and COVID-19
Taras Nazarko
Autophagy of organelles and SARS-CoV-2 in yeast, mammalian cells and zebrafish
Brittany Ross
Bacterial chronic infection physiology and bioinformatics.
Hang Shi
Cellular mechanisms of obesity and its associated metabolic disorders
Katherine Wetzel
Bacteriophage, mycobacteria, virus-cell interaction, virology
Bingzhong Xue
Integrative pathophysiology of obesity and its related disorders
Jianliang Xu
Immunoglobulin Gene Modification and Diversification
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